Good vs Evil Flashcards
You got your small fire all right
Light vs destruction
‘You’re a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!’
Beast in mankind
They were glad to touch the brown backs of the fence that gemmed in the terror and made it governable
Fear catalyses evil
We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything. So we’ve got to do the right things.
Right
Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
Predatory
The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering
Sounds pretty Evil to me
Roger advanced upon them as one wielding a nameless authority
Gestapo vibes
The rock struck piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist
Murder
There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws
Atavism
‘That was Simon, that was murder’
Yep… pretty evil
This head is for the beast. It’s a gift.
Thinks he’s being good
Behind them on the grass the headless and paunched body of a sow lay where they had dropped it
Well it’s not very good…
Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policeman and the law. Roger’s arm was conditioned by a civilisation that knew nothing of him and was in ruins
Evil pretending to be good
He hadn’t because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh
Good?
The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away
Descending into Savagery
If faces were different when lit from above or below - what was a face? What was anything?
Two faced
‘What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?’
Regression
‘Which is better - to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill’
Ralph v jack direct comparison
He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling
Nice
‘I painted my face— I stole up. Now you eat— all of you— and I’
His way of showing kindness
Samneric protested out of the heart of civilisation
Good
“You knew didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close!”
Mankind is evil
’I’m frightened. Of us.’
Evillll
‘Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us’
Men are evil
‘Kill the pig, slit her throat, spill her blood’
Blood lust
Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy
Darkness in man’s heart
He stood halfway along the neck and gazed at the savages intently. Freed by the paint, they had tied their hair back and were more comfortable than he was
Savageryyy
The candle-bungs opened their wide white flowers… their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island
Man’s abuse of nature
Behind this was the darkness of the forest proper and the open space of the scar
Destroying nature
Ralph launched himself like a cat; stabbed, snarling, with spear, and the savage doubled up
Kay
the compulsion yo track down and kill things… was swallowing him up
Yas
Then, amid the roar of bees in the afternoon sunlight, Simon found for the fruit they could not reach… passed them back town to the endless, outstretched hands
Christ like figure
