Jack Flashcards
1
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Physical appearance
A
Tall and thin
Red Hair
Freckles
2
Q
Jack is presented as
A
- A dictator
- An increasingly violent and powerful
- A symbol of savgery and destruction
3
Q
‘I ought to be chief’ ‘I can sing a C-sharp’
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- Arrogance and entitlement
- Self assumed superiority
- doesn’t understand the values of being leader
4
Q
‘Lots of Rules! Then when anyone breaks em–’
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- enthusiasm for puishment
- punishment enforces control
- thinks leadership is based on power and fear
5
Q
‘Bloodthirsty snarling’
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- soomorphism
- predatory animal
- losing humanity and becoming primal
6
Q
‘The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-masking’
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- personification
- Violent impulse controls him
- reveals inner conflict bewtween his humanity and growing savagery
- desperation for violence
7
Q
‘I am not going to play no longer’
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- views the island as a game - childish and immature
- he craves power and control
8
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‘visiously, with fulll intention, he hurled his spear at Ralph’
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- Adverb ‘visiously’ emphases his spiteful intent
- imagery of violence and destruction
- Moral decline - hunting people rather than pigs
- enjoyment in watching people suffer
- inflicting pain through unvontrolled violence
9
Q
‘The compulsion to track down and kill…was swallowing him up’
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- personification
- violent and primal instinctive character
- desperation for violence
- consumed by savagery
10
Q
Goldings intentions through the character of Jack
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- The destructive potential of misused power
- Jack is a symbol of davagery and dictatorship to show how power can corrupt
- Contrast between J and R highlights the struggle between civilisation and chaos
11
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Readers response to Jack
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Frsutration with his arrogance, need for control and dismissal of rules
Fear of his power and influence
Horrified and shock at how Jack has transformed to a primitive character who craves violence
