Civilisation quotes LOTF Flashcards
Finish the quote from the beginning to show 2 contrasting leadership styles
“There was the”
brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration, skill; and there was the world of longing and baffled commonsense.
Finish the quote about conditioned society, “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 about allusion to school “we’ll have to”
have ‘Hands up’ like at school.”
Finish the quote about foreshadowing, “we’ve got to have”
rules and obey them. After all,
we’re not savages.
Quote from beginning, attraction to savagery
the mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness.
Quote from middle, civilisation being supressed by dark desires of savagery
“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What’s grownups
going to think? Going off―hunting pigs―letting fires out―and now!”
A shadow fronted him tempestuously.
Quote from middle, survival of the fittest society
“He’s like Piggy. He says things like Piggy. He isn’t a proper chief.” Jack clutched the conch to him. “He’s a coward himself.”
Quote from middle, civilisation being worn down by the beast
“(To Ralph) this seemed the breaking up of sanity. Fear, beasts, no general agreement that the fire was all-important”
Quote from middle, choir boys into savages
Each of them wore the remains of
a black cap and ages ago they had stood in two demure rows and their
voices had been the song of angels.
Quote from end, savage society appealing to Ralph and Piggy
Piggy and Ralph, under the threat of the sky, found themselves eager to take a place in this demented but partly secure society
Finish the quote, Simon’s death
“at once the”
crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore.
Finish the quote from the end, savage unrecognisble
“this was a savage whose”
image refused to blend with that ancient
picture of a boy in shorts and shirt.
Finish the quote, savages losing speech ability
“the sniggering”..
and “the shivering”
…. of the savages became a loud derisive jeer.
…silvery, unreal laughter of the savages
Finish the quote from the end, circles, mask etc
“The chief was”
sitting there, naked to the waist, his face blocked out in
white and red. The tribe lay in a semicircle before him.
Finish the quote from the end, savagery replacing the conch
“the skull that”
gleamed as white as ever the conch had
done and seemed to jeer at him cynically
