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Civilisation Flashcards

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initially, civilisation is presented…

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through democracy

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finish the quote: ‘let’s have…

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…a vote’

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initially, civilisation is presented…

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through piggy

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finish the quote: ‘piggy was standing…

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…cradling the great cream shell’

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finish the quote: ‘pointed to…

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…the conch in Ralph’s hands and jack and simon fell silent’

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finish the quote: ‘let him…

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…have the conch!’

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initially, civilisation is presented….

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through law and order

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finish the quote: ‘we’ll have to have…

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…“hands up” like at school’

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finish the quote: ‘give the conch…

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…to the next person to speak’

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finish the quote: ‘he won’t be interrupted…

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… : except by me’

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initially, the loss of civilisation is presented…
(ch.3 or ch.1)

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through jack’s change in appearance

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finish the quote: ‘except for a pair of tattered…

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…shorts held up by his knife-belt he was naked’

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finish the quote: ‘he closed his eyes, raised his…

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…head and breathed in gently with flared nostrils’

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finish the quote: ‘square black cap…

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… with a silver badge’ (ch.1)

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‘except for a pair of tattered shorts held up by his knife-belt he was naked’
‘he closed his eyes, raised his head and breathed in gently with flared nostrils’

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  • the clean, formal appearance of jack and his uniform as head of the choir has been replaced with a disturbingly ‘savage’, almost animalistic appearance
  • clothes = civilisation and order -> jack’s clothes are ‘tattered’ -> a clear indication the rules of school are disappearing
  • jack is almost ‘naked’ -> this is not the innocent nakedness of ralph in the first chapter, but a more sinister disregard for ‘english’ behaviour
  • his shorts are held up by a belt - this inclusion of ‘knife’ suggests the belt is not part of a uniform anymore, but a tool to help him with violent, destructive hunting
  • ‘flared nostrils’ -> develops an image of jack as an animal, not a boy
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throughout the course of the novel, civilisation is presented…

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as mimetic of the adult world through the parachutist dropping down on the island

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finish the quote: ‘a sign…

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…came down from the world of grown-ups’

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finish the quote: ‘there was a sudden bright…

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…explosion and corkscrew tail across the sky; then darkness again’

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finish the quote: ‘there was a speck above the island, a figure dropping ….

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… swiftly beneath a parachute, a figure that hung with dangling limbs’

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‘a sign came down from the world of grown-ups’
‘there was a sudden bright explosion and corkscrew tail across the sky; then darkness again’
‘there was a speck above the island, a figure dropping swiftly beneath a parachute, a figure that hung with dangling limbs’

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  • the boys become barbaric, but are no different to the adult world in europe, where war was causing the same level of death and destruction as on the island
  • ‘the world of grown-ups’ -> meant to be safe and secure ; instead the violence of ‘explosion’, rather than bringing safety, creates nothing but ‘darkness’
  • fate is similar to that of simon and piggy - killed in conflict and washed out to sea
21
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throughout the course of the novel, civilisation is presented…
(ch.7)

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through ralph’s imagination

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finish the quote: ‘when you went to bed there was a bowl of cornflakes…

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…with sugar and cream’

23
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finish the quote: ‘land the books- they stood on…

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…..the shelf by the bed’

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finish the quote: ‘he had not bothered…

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… to put them back properly’

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‘when you went to bed there was a bowl of cornflakes with sugar and cream. And the books―they stood on the shelf by the bed, leaning together with always two or three laid flat on top because he had not bothered to put them back properly’

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  • domestic imagery - ‘bed’, ‘shelf’, ‘bowl’ -> still remembers civilisation
  • images of rule and rebellion depict ‘civilised’ England ; ‘went to bed’ -> shows acceptance of adult routine
  • the only rebellion is that ‘he had not bothered’ to tidy up -> the contrast with the current behaviour on the island is clear
  • books -> rejecting romanticised portrayals of childhood -> reality is shown these books to be make believe
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throughout the course of the novel,
civilisation is presented…
(ch.8)

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through the physical differences between ralph and jack

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finish the quote: ‘he was safe from shame…

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…or self-consciousness behind the mask of his paint’

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finish the quote: ‘ralph was kneeling by the remains of the fire…

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….like a sprinter at his mark and his face half-hidden by hair and smut’

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‘he was safe from shame or self-consciousness behind the mask of his paint’
‘ralph was kneeling by the remains of the fire like a sprinter at his mark and his face half- hidden by hair and smut’

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    • jack and ralph placed side-by-side : civilised and the savage
  • ralph clings to his identity and civilisation -> face is only ‘half-hidden’ and it is with ‘hair’ and ‘smut’: he only needs to wash to regain his innocence
  • jack’s ‘mask’ and ‘paint’ have associations of savagery, whereas ralph remains a heroic, athletic ‘sprinter’
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throughout the end of the novel, the ultimate end civilisation is presented….

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through the boys’ brief descent into savagery during simon’s murder

31
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finish the quote: ‘at once the crowd…

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…surged after it’

32
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‘at once the crowd surged after it’

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  • the noun ‘crowd’ -> suggests the boys are no longer individuals responsible for their own behaviour -> they are a collective, a pack of animals driven by instinct
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finish the quote: ‘leapt on to the beast…

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….screamed, struck, bit, tore’

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finish the quote: ‘no movements but…

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…the tearing of teeth and claws’

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‘leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore’
‘no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws’

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  • animalistic imagery -> ‘bit’, ‘tore’, ‘teeth and claws’ -> no suggestion of humanity -> predatory associations -> of savage animals ripping apart prey
  • regressed -> loss of civilisation
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throughout the end of the novel, the ultimate end of civilisation is presented….

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through piggy’s murder

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finish the quote: ‘roger, with a sense of delirious…

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…abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever’

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‘roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever’

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  • FIRST time on the island where a human/boy is PURPOSELY killed - loss of civilisation since chapter 1 -> even scared of killing a pig due to the ‘unbearable blood’
  • through a psychological reading -> roger governed by the id
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finish the quote: ‘piggy fell forty feet and landed…

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…on his back across the square red rock in the sea’

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finish the quote: ‘his head opened and…

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…stuff came out and turned red’

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‘piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back across the square red rock in the sea’
‘his head opened and stuff came out and turned red’

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  • loss of civilisation -> piggy’s brains symbolic of his intelligence are dismissed as ‘stuff’, ‘his body simply twitched a bit’
  • displays how civilisation - intelligence- isn’t relevant anymore
  • piggy’s death = death of civilised society, intelligence, reason and order
  • displays the fragility of innocence and civilisation -> mankind is helpless in the face of destructive human behaviour
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throughout the end of the novel, the ultimate end of civilisation is presented….

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through the shattering of the conch

43
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finish the quote: ‘the conch exploded into…

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…a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist’

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‘the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist’

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  • the pure ‘white’ conch is destroyed
  • ‘exploded’ into a ‘thousand…fragments’ and ‘ceased to exist’ -> shows that once evil triumphs, there can be no return to order
  • displays the fragility of innocence and civilisation -> mankind is helpless in the face of destructive human behaviour
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English Literature : Lord of the Flies (33 decks)

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