Fear Flashcards
initially, fear is presented…
(ch.1+2)
through piggy
finish the quote: ‘intimidated by…
…the uniformed superiority’
finish the quote: ‘nobody knows…
..where we are’
finish the quote: ‘d’you think…
…we’re safe down here’
finish the quote: ‘his lips quivered…
…and the spectacles were dimmed with mist’
initially, fear is presented…
through littl’uns
finish the quote: ‘they suffered untold…
…terrors in the dark and huddled together for comfort’
finish the quote: ‘they talk..
…and scream’
initially, fear is presented…
(ch.1)
through violence
finish the quote: ‘because of the enormity of the knife descending…
…and cutting into living flesh’
finish the quote: ‘the unbearable…
…blood’
finish the quote: ‘the place of…
…terror. jack’s face was white under the freckles’
finish the quote: ‘what an enormity…
…a downward stroke would be’
throughout the course of the novel, fear is presented…
(ch.5+6)
through the beast
finish the quote: ‘the vivid horror of this…
…so possible and nakedly terrifying, held them all silent’
‘The vivid horror of this, so possible and so nakedly terrifying, held them
all silent’
- ‘horror’ and ‘terrifying’ depict the scale of fear the boys are now suffering; ‘vivid’ and ‘possible’ emphasises this fear is no longer a dream, but a reality
finish the quote: ‘something big…
…and horrid moving in the trees’
finish the quote: ‘they became motionless, gripped…
…in each other’s arms, four unwinking eyes aimed and two mouths open’
‘they became motionless, gripped in each other’s arms, four unwinking eyes aimed and two mouths open’
- their unwavering fear of the beast magnified their experience from merely seeing the movement of the dead parachutist to seeing a threat and consequently caused them to experience the sight before them more terrifying
- ‘motionless’ -> paralysed with fear
- the effects of fear affected the boys individually - fear can easily distort reality
throughout the course of the novel, fear is presented…
(ch.5+6)
through jack’s manipulation of the boys
finish the quote: ‘we’re strong…
… - we hunt!’
finish the quote: ‘if there’s a beast, we’ll…
…hunt it down! we’ll close it in and beat and beat and beat’
‘We’re strong―we hunt! If there’s a beast, we’ll hunt it down! We’ll close in and beat and beat and beat―!’
- manipulates and uses the boys’ fear to his advantage - makes hunting seem necessary for safety -> increases his power
- makes the beast seem more real
- takes advantage of the chaos caused by the boys’ fear of the beast and excitement about hunting it - to gain power
finish the quote: ‘this is a…
…hunter’s job’
throughout the course of the novel, fear is presented…
(ch.5+6)
darkness
finish the quote: ‘soon the darkness was….
…full of claws, full of the awful unknown and menace’
‘soon the darkness was full of claws, full of the awful unknown and menace’
- symbolic of vulnerability
- darkness is the founder of the beast and a manifest of the boys’ fears
finish the quote: ‘a thin wail…
…out of the darkness chilled them and sent them grabbing for each other’
throughout the end of the novel, fear is presented…
through samn’eric
finish the quote: ‘samneric lay…
…looking up in quiet terror’
finish the quote: ‘the twins had..
…grabbed each other and were gibbering’
finish the quote: ‘sam spoke in a strangled voice…
…you don’t know roger . he’s a terror’
throughout the end of the novel, fear is presented…
through ralph’s reactions to their involvement in simon’s death
finish the quote: ‘I’m frightened. Of…
… us. I want to go home. Oh God, I want to go home’
‘I’m frightened. Of us. I want to go home. Oh God, I want to go home’
- he is becoming scared of the beast within them
finish the quote: ‘he was…
…shivering’
finish the quote: ‘ralph shuddered…
…at the human contact’
throughout the end of the novel, fear is presented…
through ralph
finish the quote: ‘there was a shout from beyond the thicket…
…and then ralph was running with the swiftness of fear through the undergrowth’
‘there was a shout from beyond the thicket and then ralph was running with the swiftness of fear through the undergrowth’
- fear is a basic survival mechanism that signals when danger is present
- in this case, fear had saved ralph’s life -> adrenaline caused him to escape the threats to his life
