Human Nature

Question 1

The creature was a party of boys, marching approximately in step in two parallel lines and dressed in strangely eccentric clothing

Answer 1

Unity

Question 2

I should have thought that a pack of British boys - you’re all British aren’t you? - Would have been able to put up a better show than that

Answer 2

Regression

Question 3

Ralph sat on the fallen trunk, his left side to the sun. On his right were most of the choir; on his left were the larger boys who had not known each other before… before him sat small children squatted in the grass

Answer 3

Initial organisation

Question 4

You got your small fire all right

Answer 4

Test boundaries

Question 5

‘You’re a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!’

Answer 5

Disintegration of unity

Question 6

They were glad to touch the brown backs of the fence that gemmed in the terror and made it governable

Answer 6

Fear and paranoia

Question 7

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.

Answer 7

Initial attempt at organisation

Question 8

I’ll give the Conch to the next person to speak - they won’t be interrupted!

Answer 8

Imperative

Question 9

Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!

Answer 9

Predatory

Question 10

The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering

Answer 10

Sadism

Question 11

Roger advanced upon them as one wielding a nameless authority

Answer 11

Arrogance
Hubris

Self-appointed authority

Question 12

The rock struck piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist

Answer 12

Murder

Biblical

Question 13

There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws

Answer 13

Atavism caused by liberation

Predatory

Question 14

‘That was Simon, that was murder’

Answer 14

Damn

Question 15

This head is for the beast. It’s a gift.

Answer 15

Fear of higher power

Question 16

Behind them on the grass the headless and paunched body of a sow lay where they had dropped it

Answer 16

Predatory

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Suppression

Question 18

He hadn’t because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh

Answer 18

Fear of violence

Question 19

The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away

Answer 19

Descending into Savagery

Question 20

If faces were different when lit from above or below - what was a face? What was anything?

Answer 20

Two faced

Question 21

‘What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?’

Answer 21

Regression

Question 22

‘Which is better - to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill’

Answer 22

What u must do vs what u want

Question 23

He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling

Answer 23

Animalistic

Question 24

‘I painted my face— I stole up. Now you eat— all of you— and I’

Answer 24

Desire for anonymity

Question 25

’Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!’

Answer 25

Sarcasm

Man’s folly is the belief they are good

Question 26

“You knew didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close!”

Answer 26

Question- room for redemption?

Question 27

‘I’m frightened. Of us.’

Answer 27

Wise

Question 28

‘Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us’

Answer 28

Literal and symbolic

Question 29

‘Kill the pig, slit her throat, spill her blood’

Answer 29

Blood lust

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Darkness in man’s hearts

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Comfort in Savagery

Anonymity

Question 32

The candle-bungs opened their wide white flowers… their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island

Answer 32

Man’s abuse of nature

Question 33

Behind this was the darkness of the forest proper and the open space of the scar

Answer 33

Destroying nature

Question 34

Ralph launched himself like a cat; stabbed, snarling, with spear, and the savage doubled up

Answer 34

Yeet

Question 35

the compulsion yo track down and kill things… was swallowing him up

Answer 35

Kay