This is a chant that the boys use to role-play killing the pig. Given England’s history of acting savagely towards nations that they deemed to be less advanced and even savage, particularly during their colonial days making this quote is even more powerfully ironic in the current climate. What is particularly provocative about this line is that it is uttered by Jack, who later in the book encourages the boys to abandon the rules that they have in place. We’re English, and the English are best at everything. This line is one of the first suggestions that the beast is not a physical entity but rather the manifestation of the evil that exists within men. This line is taken from a section of the book where the boys are debating whether or not there is a beast and speculating on what it might be.
There isn’t no beast – not with claws and all that.
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