Best Lord of the Flies quotes Flashcards
Finish the quote, Ralph’s appearance C1
“there was his size”
and attractive
appearance; and most obscurely, yet most powerfully, there was the conch
Finish the quote, Jack’s group entrance C1
“The creature”
was a party of boys, marching approximately in step in two parallel
lines
Finish the quote, juxtaposition between strength and weakness, C1
“the blade”
continued to flash at the end of a bony arm”
Finish the quote, fear of killing
““because of the”
enormity of the knife
descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood.
Finish the quote, allusion to school C2
“We’ll have to”
“have ‘Hands Up’ like at school”
Finish the quote, cruelty of assemblies C2
“The small boy held out”
his hands for the conch and the assembly shouted with laughter; at once he snatched back his hands and started to cry.
Finish, the quote Piggy as a parent C2
“with the martyred expression”
of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless ebullience of the children,
Finish the quote, limits of democracy Jack C2
“the conch”
“doesn’t count on top of the mountain”
Finish the quote, initial attitude towards rules
“We’ll have rules”
He cried excitedly , “lots of rules”!
Finish the quote, power of fire C2
“the beginnings of awe”
at the power set free below them. The knowledge and the awe made him savage.
Finish the quote, littlun missing C2
“That little’un”
gasped Piggy―”him with the mark on his face, I don’t see him. Where is he now?”
The crowd was as silent as death.
Finish the quote, Jack as an animal C3
“Jack himself shrank”
at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath, and for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of tree
Finish the quote, C3
“he tried to convey”
“the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up”
Finish the quote, Jack and Ralph as different C3
“They walked along”
two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate.
Finish the quote, Simon feeding the 5000 C3
“Simon found for them the fruit”
they could not reach, pulled off the choicest
from up in the foliage, passed them back down to the endless, outstretched
hands.
Finish the quote, inability to communicate and reflect C3
“The two older boys”…
flinched when they heard the shameful syllable.
Snakes were not mentioned now, were not mentionable.
Finish the quote, reasons for following authority C4
“They obeyed the summons “….
of the conch, partly because Ralph blew it, and
he was big enough to be a link with the adult world of authority
Finish the quote, Roger throwing stones C4
“Yet there was a space”
round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger’s
arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in
ruins.
Finish the quote, juxtaposition of savagery, mask C4
“held up a mask”…
that drew their eyes and appalled them. He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling. He capered toward
Bill, and the mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness. The face of red and white and black swung through the air and jigged toward Bill
Finish the quote, delight in violence, C4
“they closed” …
in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will
upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
Finish the quote, the appeal of civilisation vs savagery C4
“There was the brilliant” …
world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration, skill; and there was the world of longing and baffled
commonsense.
Finish the quote, Jack boasting about killing a pig, C4
“I cut the pig’s throat,” ..
said Jack, proudly, and yet twitched as he said it.
Finish the quote, conch losing its appeal, C5
“Exposure to the air “
had bleached the yellow and pink to near-white, and transparency
Finish the quote, assembly and circles, C5
“the place of assembly was”
was roughly a triangle; but irregular and sketchy, like everything they made
Finish the quote, the assembly being violent and unruly C5
“The derisive laughter”
that rose had fear in it and condemnation
Tormented by the silence and the refusal the assembly broke into a chant.
Finish the quote, Jack mocking the littluns C5
“you’re a lot”…
of crybabies and sissies. That’s what. And as for the fear―you’ll have to put up with that like the rest of us.”
Finish the quote, lack of regard for rescue C5
“Ralph, this seemed”
the breaking up of sanity. Fear, beasts, no
general agreement that the fire was all-important
Finish the quote, Simon knowing the truth C5
“Simon became inarticulate”
in his effort to express mankind’s essential
illness.
Finish the quote, Simon being silenced by the boys C5
“the laughter beat him”
cruelly and he shrank away defenceless to his seat.
Finish the quote, Jack agaisnt the rules C5
“But Jack was shouting against him.”
“Bollocks to the rules! We’re strong―we hunt! If there’s a beast, we’ll
hunt it down! We’ll close in and beat and beat and beat―!”
