When Ralph, Jack, and Roger are searching for the Beast on the mountain, Ralph realizes that they are foolish to climb the mount
ain in the dark with only sharpened sticks to protect themselves. Jack responds by saying, "If you don't want to go on, I'll go up by myself." How is this statement a challenge to Ralph?
Jack thinks that he is some tough high and might being but really he is just being sensless and putting himself in danger. He is trying to look like a better leader than Ralph by seeming braver even though that has nothing to do with why Ralph doesn't think they should go, and smarter, even though he isn't.
Locke is trying to say that tyranny is the exercise of power for the wrong reason, basically meaning that it is abusing ones power over someone or something
