Identity Flashcards
initially, identity is presented…
through names
finish the quote: ‘the fat..
…boy’
finish the quote: ‘the fair…
…boy’
finish the quote: ‘they used to…
..call me “piggy” ‘
finish the quote: ‘why should..
..i be jack? i’m merridew’
initially, the loss of identity is presented…
through jack’s changing appearance
finish the quote: ‘except for a pair of tattered…
…shorts held up by his knife-belt, he was naked’
finish the quote: ‘he closed his…
…eyes, raised his head and breathed in gently with flared nostrils’
‘except for a pair of tattered shorts held up by his knife-belt he was naked. he closed his eyes, raised his head and breathed in gently with flared nostrils’
- ‘tattered’ -> losing his public-schoolboy identity
- the clean, formal appearance of jack and his uniform as head of the choir has been replaced with a disturbingly savage, almost animalistic appearance
- shorts are held up by a belt- ‘knife’ -> belt is no longer part of uniform -> but a tool to help him with his violent, destructive hunting
throughout the course of the novel, identity is presented…
through the fallen parachutist
finish the quote: ‘there was a speck above…
…the island, a figure dropping swiftly beneath a parachute’
‘there was a speck above the island, a figure dropping swiftly beneath a parachute’
- human life is insignificant
- pilot is just a ‘speck’ and ‘figure’ with no identity
- just like piggy -> no one knows his name -> killed in conflict and is washed out to sea
finish the quote: ‘something like a great…
…ape was sitting asleep with its head between its knees’
finish the quote: ‘the ruin…
…of a face’
‘something like a great ape was sitting asleep with its head between its knees’
‘the ruin of a face’
- difference between human, animal and beast is unclear
- ‘like a great ape’ - makes link between man and animal clear -> we haven’t evolved beyond the animalistic savagery of beasts
- humans are nothing more than a ‘creature’ -> lack of evolution
- face = identity -> identity is damaged after war -> political allegory -> critical of the cold war -> totalitarianism vs liberalism