How does the chant in Lord of the Flies symbolize the loss of reason and blind emotion?Can you give me some supporting evidence by incorporating...

When words are repeated over and over, as in a ritualistic
chant, their intent is to raise the emotional level of those who recite them.  With the
repetition, the mind no longer need think, so the body may follow any visceral urge that
comes to it.  In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, while Robert
describes how he snarled at the pig that they almost caught in Chapter Seven, Jack
shouts to form a circle and grabs him by the hair and Roger fights to get
closer.

The
chant rose ritually, as at the last moment of a dance or a
hunt.

 "Kill the pig!  Kill the pig! Bash him
in!"

Even Ralph
fights to get near and grab some flesh:  "The desire to squeeze and hurt was
overmastering" and Robert is hurt some.  After this unthinking action, the hunters and
Jack steal the fire from Ralph, Piggy, and others.  In Chapter Nine, when Ralph and Jack
come into conflict, and Ralph attempts to reason, Jack counters by yelling "Do our
dance!   Come on!  Dance!"  Roger plays the role of the pig.  Ironically, Piggy and
Ralph are drawn in as they

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found themselves eager to take a place in this
demented but partly secure society.

Kill the
beast!  Cut his throat! Spill his blood!

The
movement became regular while the chant lost its first superficial excitement and began
to beat like a steady
pulse.

As
the chant continues, the pulses of the boys throb.  When something emerges from the
forest, the circle becomes a horseshoe and the unknown creature struggles forward, the
littl'uns cry and sticks are swung madly at what the boys perceive as the
beast.

There
were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and
claws.

Eventually, the boys
stop, and the "beast" is blood-stained as the boys move away from it.  Engaged in an
orgy of violence, the boys have killed Simon while reciting their mindless
chant.