Chapter 5-8 Fear And The Challenge Of Order

Question 1

chapter 5 beast from water

Answer 1

Ralph calls an assembly at evening. Jack talks about the beast. Simon questions whether they are the beast

Question 2

“You hunters! You can laugh! But I tell you the smoke is more important than the pig… we’ve got to make smoke up there - or die” chapter 5

Answer 2

ironic. foreshadows fire burning out of control

Question 3

“you littluns started all this with the fear talk. Beasts!… serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies” chapter 5

Answer 3

tool of control. Jack says beasts

Question 4

“I wanted - to go to a place - a place I know” chapter 5

Answer 4

Simon unable to articulate. needs time on his own

Question 5

‘no one had seen the mulberry-coloured birthmark again’ chapter 5

Answer 5

all denying the death

Question 6

“he says the beast comes out of the sea” chapter 5

Answer 6

Jack giving it reality. beast becomes more real. method of control. increases fear

Question 7

“maybe there is a beast…what I mean is… maybe its only us… we could be sort of…” Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness…Simon’s efforts fell about him in ruins; the laughter beat him cruelly and he shrank away defenceless to his seat’ chapter 5

Answer 7

Simon trying to explain mankinds essential illness - beast is inside them. doesn’t speak after this until moments of his death. context link to war. Simon is an outsider

Question 8

“what are we? humans? or animals? or savages?… going off - hunting pigs - letting fires out - and now” chapter 5

Answer 8

Piggy summing up Golding’s idea of humanity through the use of punctuation of emphasise the collapse of civilisation and descent into savagery. shows a crisis is happening and that blood lust is taking over them

Question 9

“Bollocks to the rules!” chapter 5

Answer 9

Jack. use of profanity. collapse of civilisation

Question 10

“We’ll be like animals. we’ll never be rescued” chapter 5

Answer 10

Ralph losing control for the first time. saying beats within all of them will rise

Question 11

chapter 6 beast from air

Answer 11

Sam and Eric create fire which goes out of control. Jack’s second bid for leadership. go to castle rock. see parachutist

Question 12

‘he was back where he came from, feeding the ponies with sugar over the garden wall. Then someone was shaking his arm, telling him that it was time for tea’ chapter 6

Answer 12

Ralph is an escapist. idyllic imagery. daydreams used to comfort him

Question 13

“we don’t need the conch anymore. we know who ought to say things. it’s time people knew they’ve got to keep quiet” chapter 6

Answer 13

Jack as dictator - id

Question 14

‘there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick’ chapter 6

Answer 14

Simon sees beast as human

Question 15

“this would make a wizard fort!” chapter 6

Answer 15

Jack. adjective wizard - really cool and childish response. wants to play with the weapons

Question 16

chapter 7 shadows and tall trees - light to make shadow - civilisation, but longer shadows because of tall trees shows greater savagery

Answer 16

Ralph kills boar. leave castle rock to find beast. interested in killing Robert who they torture. Simon and Ralph talk.

Question 17

‘cut this filthy hair right back to half an inch’ chapter 7

Answer 17

Ralph - metaphor for civilisation

Question 18

“you’ll get back to where you came from” chapter 7

Answer 18

mystic. Simon is aware he is not going to make it because of the collapse of civilisation and he is the outsider. repetition of personal pronoun - not we - not him. foreshadowing his end

Question 19

“you’re batty” chapter 7

Answer 19

Ralph’s opinion of Simon meaning weird because he is an outsider

Question 20

‘mummy had still been with them and daddy came home every day. wild ponies came to the stone wall at the bottom of the garden… you could go indoors when you were cold and look out the window… there was a bowl of cornflakes with sugar and cream… everything was all right; everything was good humoured and friendly’ chapter 7

Answer 20

Ralph. linked to time before war. increasing desire to escape. innocence. section of daydream is written in second person - more sympathetic - makes Ralph’s longings clear for the reader

Question 21

‘the bushes crashed’ chapter 7

Answer 21

just after daydream. violence. interruption of daydream. onomatopoeia

Question 22

‘Ralph was full of fright and apprehension and pride’ chapter 7

Answer 22

wounded the boar. how easy it was to fall to become a savage

Question 23

‘Robert squealed in mock terror, then in real pain’ chapter 7

Answer 23

ritual killing practised

Question 24

‘Ralph, carried away by a sudden thick excitement, grabbed Eric’s spear and jabbed at Robert with it’ chapter 7

Answer 24

deliberate Golding has chosen Ralph to show mankinds essential illness

Question 25

“Kill the pig! cut his throat! kill the pig! bash him in!” chapter 7

Answer 25

changed pronoun from her to him to show the reality of killing a boy. the pronoun also shows it could be any of them - linked to war

Question 26

“use a littlun” chapter 7

Answer 26

Jack. after everybody laughed - potential murder of a child is laughed about - savagery

Question 27

‘he slashed with the spear’ chapter 7

Answer 27

sibilance shows Jack’s terrorising actions

Question 28

‘a dark figure moved against the tide’ chapter 7

Answer 28

Roger comes alive at times of darkness

Question 29

‘impervious Roger’ chapter 7

Answer 29

no one can get through to him - sociopath

Question 30

chapter 8 gift for the darkness

Answer 30

Jack challenges Ralph. fire on sand. Jacks tribe kill sow. Simon talks to the Lord of the Flies

Question 31

‘Jack interrupted him’ chapter 8

Answer 31

short sentences to show power struggles

Question 32

‘the beast is a hunter’ chapter 8

Answer 32

ironic reply

Question 33

“I’m not going to play any longer. Not with you” chapter 8

Answer 33

Jack. playground language - still innocent? more shocking because they should be innocent but they’re not

Question 34

“I think we ought to climb the mountain” chapter 8

Answer 34

Simon wants to seek truth. intent is that good must overcome evil - Golding thinking about humanity as a whole

Question 35

‘what they might become in darkness nobody cared to think… there was a suggestion of panic in energy and hysteria in the cheerfulness’ chapter 8

Answer 35

more emphasis on fear dominating them

Question 36

‘the same way as he went himself’ chapter 8

Answer 36

referring to Jack and where he went. stress is building up. doesn’t respect him. loss of identity. trope - evil character can’t say name

Question 37

‘he knelt down and the arrow of the sun fell on him’ chapter 8

Answer 37

christ-like

Question 38

‘each of them wore the remains of a black cap… their voices had been the song of angels’ chapter 8

Answer 38

Jack’s army. explicit reference to fallen angels

Question 39

‘about the beast. when we kill we’ll leave some of the kill for it’ chapter 8

Answer 39

repetition of kill - desire. sacrificial offering. clearly linked to savages

Question 40

‘trotted’ chapter 8

Answer 40

animal like or alternatively childish

Question 41

Roger chapter 8

Answer 41

commits infanticide ‘one piglet, rushed into the sea trailing Roger’s spear behind it’

Question 42

‘Jack was on top of the sow, stabbing downward with his knife. Roger found a lodgment for his point and began to push till he was leaning with his whole weight’ chapter 8

Answer 42

gang rape. very violent penetration. sexual excitement about overpowering her. Jack is the id. extended metaphor of rape - ‘the spear moved forward inch by inch and the terrified squealing became a high-pitched scream’. primitive, brutal, savage

Question 43

“sharpen a stick at both ends” chapter 8

Answer 43

savagery and loss of innocence. Jack controlling Roger

Question 44

‘the half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life’ chapter 8

Answer 44

Simon has little faith in humanity

Question 45

‘tormenting heat’ chapter 8

Answer 45

pathetic fallacy. linked to simon

Question 46

‘in front of Simon the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned’ chapter 8

Answer 46

pig’s head. beelzebub - devil - literally means the Lord of the Flies. the biblical name Beelzebub, a powerful demon in hell sometimes thought to be the devil himself

Question 47

‘demoniac figures with faces of white and red and green rushed out howling, so that the littluns fled screaming… they grabbed half-burnt branches and raced away along the beach’ chapter 8

Answer 47

savage. Prometheus - stole fire from Gods

Question 48

‘the group of boys looked at the white shell with affectionate respect’ chapter 8

Answer 48

innocence

Question 49

“without the fire we can’t be rescued. I’d like to put on war-paint and be a savage. But we must keep the fire burning” chapter 8

Answer 49

Ralph is ego - balance between the super ego and the id. savagery vs civilisation

Question 50

“you are a silly little boy… just an ignorant silly little boy… you’d better run off and play with the others. they think you’re batty. there isn’t anyone to help you. only me. and i’m the beast… you know perfectly well you’ll only meet me down there… you’re not wanted… we shall do you” chapter 8

Answer 50

the Lord of the Flies talking to Simon. foreshadowing Simon’s death. symbolic experience. he can hear voice. good vs evil. anyone can be evil. pig’s head rules flies, evil rules boys. flies feed on the hell/evil just as the boys feed on each other. ‘down there’ - hell or beach alternative interpretation