Evil

Question 1

how is evil presented in lotf

Answer 1

• through the lotf
• revealed with masks
• tempting
• strip boys identity
• through murder
• being inside of everyone
• through Jack
• through Roger
• primitive
• sadistic

Question 2

potential exam questions for evil

Answer 2

• examine the presentation of evil within man
• how does Golding use Jack to present evil?
• examine the presentation of good vs evil

Question 3

beginning quotes for evil

Answer 3

‘The knowledge and the awe made him savage’ (ch.2)

‘Roger led straight through the castles, kicking them over, burying the flowers’ (ch.4)

‘Maurice followed, laughing, and added to the destruction’ (ch.4)

‘Roger stopped, picked up a stone, aimed, and threw it at Henry–threw it to miss’ (ch.4)

‘a bloodthirsty snarling’ (ch.4)

‘the mask compelled them’ (ch.4)

Question 4

middle quotes for evil

Answer 4

‘maybe it’s only us’ (ch.5)

‘a human at once heroic and sick’ (ch.6)

‘Kill a littlun’ (ch.7)

‘The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering’ (ch.7)

‘I’d like to put on war paint and be a savage’ (ch.8)

Question 5

end quotes for evil

Answer 5

‘You knew didn’t you? I’m part of you?’ (ch.9)

'’I’m frightened. Of us.’’ (ch.10)

‘They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought’ (ch.11)

‘Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the leaver’ (ch.11)

‘the anonymous devil’s faces swarmed’ (ch.11)

‘This was a savage whose imaged refused to blend with that ancient picture of a boy in shorts’ (ch.12)

‘Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart’ (ch.12)