civilisation vs savagery Flashcards

1
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“bollocks to the rules”

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-jack
-chapter 5
-wants to abandon civilisation
-savagery

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“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?

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-piggy
-chapter 5
-questioning civility only 5 chapters in
-probably savagery

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2
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“i thought i might kill”

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-jack
-chapter 3
-doesnt want to kill anything early on
-savagery

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3
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“sharpen a stick on both ends

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-jack
-chapter 8
-wants to put a pig’s head on a stick - contrast to earlier
-savagery

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4
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“No! How could we kill it?”

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-jack
-wants to maintain control after the supposed death of the beast
-chapter 10
-savagery

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5
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“don’t you want to be rescued?”

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-ralph
-civilisation
-chapter 4
-hunters ignore fire and kill instead

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“that was simon…that was murder”

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-ralph
-acknowledges that he helped murder simon
-chapter 10

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7
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“I’m frightened. Of us. I want to go home. Oh god, I want to go home.”

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-ralph
-chapter 10
-civilsation
-wants to return to civilisation

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8
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arguments?

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-civilisation is fragile
-savagery is humanity’s true self
-beast is the boys
-cyclical:naval officer who rescues boys from savagery is in a war

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