Essay revision (Piggy, Good and Evil, Power and Leadership) Flashcards
Piggy Intro
Presented as an outsider- fat, asthma, lazy, glasses, lower social class, brought up by aunt,
Presented as parent/ adult figure to boys
Presented as sensible
Piggy Beginning
“For a moment the boys were a closed circuit of sympathy with Piggy on the outside”
Shows right off the bat he is treated as an outsider before boys get to know him
The name they gave him- foreshadows how he is killed like a pig at the end
Piggy Middle
“with the maytred expression of a parent”
Shows how the boys see him as the adult
“I dunno Ralph. We just got to go on that’s all. That’s what grown-ups would do.”
Shows he is still connected to adult world- trying to think like adults, rationally.
Piggy End
“Come away. There’s going to be trouble. And we’ve had our meat.”
Shows he is sensible and intelligent
He stops any fun and is responible so they boys dont like that - relates to him being an adult figure
Good and Evil Intro
Jack represents the evil on the island but there is also good represented by ralph and piggy
Good and Evil Beginning
“The compulsion to track down and kill”
Evil: Shows how they are evolving into savages and losing innocence of before
“the unbearable blood”
Good and Evil Middle
“Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in!”
Evil: Chanting, savagery,
Simons murder symbolizes that the true beast is, in fact, the evil inside humans.
Good and Evil End
“not because your strong, but because right is right.”
Good: Still goodness in their hearts, doing something because it is morally right.
evil is shown however because aJack does not sympothise with piggy which shows all his morals from back in civilisation are gone
Power and Leadership Intro
Jack and ralph help to portray how humans have a desire for both power and leadership.
Jack representing power, and Ralph symbolises leadership
Throughout the book the power changes from a democracy to a dictatorship
powerand leadership used for good at begining but abused towards the end
Power and Leadership Beginning
A DEMOCRACY: At first presented as civilised, holding meetings, setting rules and establishing law and order,
The more vulnerable and weak members (piggy, the littluns) are mostly protected from harm
‘We’ve got to have rules then when anyone breaks ‘em- ‘
Shows how they are still civilised
Power and Leadership Middle
“Which is better–to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?”
Slowly leading to the breaking down of the democracy, things start going wrong,
“Things are breaking up.”
Power and Leadership End
“Roger advanced upon them as one wielding a nameless authority.”
DICTATORSHIP: Unmentioned power that roger has after killing piggy- other boys are scared of him,
he is the only one who has killed on his own and would be willing to again
All rules and civilisation have gone: they are savages
