Does this sentence make sense in terms of literary techniques???? (1 Viewer)

[sghguos]

Jack challenges the group and stages a rebellion against Ralph in which Golding characterises Jack paradoxically as ingenious but also truculent to dramatise the bloodshed.

Firstly, does it make sense the "paradoxically" part. Im trying to say that the author characters this guy so that he is "ingenius" but also "trucelent" which do to kinda contradicts each other making it a paradox.

RESPECT for anyone who can make this sentence even better.

 

[stillthinkin]

Jack challenges the group and stages a rebellion against Ralph in which Golding characterises Jack paradoxically as ingenious but also truculent to dramatise the bloodshed.

Firstly, does it make sense the "paradoxically" part. Im trying to say that the author characters this guy so that he is "ingenius" but also "trucelent" which do to kinda contradicts each other making it a paradox.

RESPECT for anyone who can make this sentence even better.

The notions of ingenious and truculent are not paradoxical in a sense, as they do not contradict, a person can be clever but they can also be violent - Dexter for example (weird example but you get what I mean) or Pol Pot

It would make it a paradox if he was diplomatic and truculent, but not so much ingenious. Maybe use another word to describe him, maybe refer to the multiplicity of his character rather than the fact that he is a paradox?

Hope I could help, this is just what I saw, you don't have to agree by any means