civilisation vs savagery Flashcards
“bollocks to the rules”
-jack
-chapter 5
-wants to abandon civilisation
-savagery
“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
-piggy
-chapter 5
-questioning civility only 5 chapters in
-probably savagery
“i thought i might kill”
-jack
-chapter 3
-doesnt want to kill anything early on
-savagery
“sharpen a stick on both ends
-jack
-chapter 8
-wants to put a pig’s head on a stick - contrast to earlier
-savagery
“No! How could we kill it?”
-jack
-wants to maintain control after the supposed death of the beast
-chapter 10
-savagery
“don’t you want to be rescued?”
-ralph
-civilisation
-chapter 4
-hunters ignore fire and kill instead
“that was simon…that was murder”
-ralph
-acknowledges that he helped murder simon
-chapter 10
“I’m frightened. Of us. I want to go home. Oh god, I want to go home.”
-ralph
-chapter 10
-civilsation
-wants to return to civilisation
arguments?
-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