Characters Flashcards
Ralph (aesthetics)
‘Fair boy’
Ralph (leadership, maternal qualities, as he is creating)
‘We must make a fire’
Ralph (weak leadership, giving into Jack)
‘Jack’s in charge of the choir. What do you want them to be?
Ralph (realising PIggy’s intellect
‘Pushed the conch into Piggy’s hand’
Piggy (mental maturity)
‘Martyred expression of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless ebullience of the children’
Piggy (being smart)
‘Only Piggy could have the intellectual daring’ (chapter 8)
Piggy (different to the rest)
‘Piggy was an outsider, not only by accent, which did not matter, but by fat, and ass-mar, and specs, and a certain disinclination for manual labour’
Jack (personality)
With simple arrogance’
Jack (aesthetics)
‘Bright blue eyes that in their frustration seemed bolting and mad’
Jack (violence)
‘Hot blood spilled over his hands’
Simon (human beast realisation)
‘Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick’
Simon (not being able to speak)
‘Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness’
Roger and Tribe (appearance)
‘They were dirty’
Roger and Tribe (their morality)
‘A stain in the darkness’
Roger and Tribe (paint bringing more savagery)
‘Liberation into savagery the concealing paint brought’
