Lord of the files Flashcards
What does the Quote ‘The Long scar smashed the Jungle’ suggest?
The choice of the noun jungle suggests wild and untamed, scar suggest permanent damage to the island. The word smashed shows the place has been violently harmed. This could show man as harmful with nature, there is a religious allegory of the perfect place, like the garden of Eden, being harmed by man: Post colonial critic may link it to the harm the British did to countries during the empire.
What does the quote ‘ We’ll want to know their names, we’ll ought to have a chief to decide things’
Piggy and Ralph have a desire to organise things and control, this is a laughable democratic vote on who should be leader. It is a mockery of the current political situation for the time of the book. There is an inherent sense to organise things, this is juxtaposed when the savagery over takes them. Golding believes the need for political organsiation, to stop people from being savage as people are inherently evil, it is our native instinct to be evil.
What does the quote ‘ He had taken off his sweater’ suggest’
Clothing is a constant symbol in this book. This would have been unacceptable taking of their clothes in public. This again links to Adam and eve and the rules of life, Adam and Eve were naked to begin with, but felt shameful for sinning and started clothing themselves, there is a sense that they go from organised to savage, uncivilized and barbaric, as their clothes are torn off.
What does the quote ‘Shut up, fatty suggest?
Jack is immediately rude and nasty to piggy, backing up the idea that man is inherently bad, his tone is straightforward and brutal than Ralph’s boyish laughter. Jack is nasty and violent. Piggy is clearly intelligent and is mocked and laughed at and scorned and bullied, suggesting that in politics and control their is a big difference between who should be leader and who is a leader, again mocking the political democracy.
What does the Quote ‘Why should i be jack? I’m merridew?
Jack sees that Ralph is a threat to him, and he quickly indicates that he is an individual with his own sense of what is right and wrong. He is doing 2 things here he is re defying what his position is in the group and he is adapting to the freedom on the Island.
What does the Quote ‘You might make a boxer,as far as the width and heaviness in his shoulders went’
Ralph has an attractive appearance, making him a likeable character, he is physically strong and a leader, his appearance is clearly a major factor in the other boys in seeing someone to follow. This is contrasted to Piggy, he is athletic and matured child.
What does the quote ‘We’ll have to have hands up, like at school, we’ll have rules, he cried excitedly, lots of rules’ suggest?
There is an inherent desire for rules, there is an excitement to have rules, this mirrors early human development on earth to having a government and that the government is almost developed with the conch shell, which is a symbol of democratic freedom and equality. This is undermined though as Ralph decides who gets to hold the conch and therefore freedom on the island is described as an authority. Golding’s message is that democracy depends on its leaders.
What does the Quote Sam’n’eric’ suggest?
The words sam and eric are now shortened and will become one long word, the vocabulary f the boys is becoming more and more primitive, to symbols how slowly the boys are losing their civilized behavior, despite desire for rules.
What does the quote ‘Jack snatched the glasses of his face suggest’?
There is an innate savagery when Jack takes the glasses of his face. As Piggy is the most intelligent boy on the Island the fact that he is temporarily blinded from the lack of glasses represents the temporary blindess to reason of the boys, losing their civilized behaviors. Piggy is physically weak by the lack of glasses and the very first time he loses them shows the total decadence of the boys.
What does the Quote ‘the boys layed like painted dogs suggest’?
The use of the animistic imagery is used to highlight how the boys are becoming savage and Golding believes humans are animistic and will revert to a ananlimastic behaviour without control in their life.
What does the Quote ‘We haven’t made a fire yet’ suggest
Fire is a extended metaphor as a symbol to represent the connection between the boys and human civilisation, as the fire goes out, and not important, the connection with civilisation sweeps away. It is a symbol of their desire to be rescued and in that a metaphor they are still civivilised.
What does the Quote ‘Treasure island… Swallows of amazon, coral island’ suggest?
These are books about being on a deserted Island, but Golding is criticizing these set of books as he felt it was too idealistic and sweet, Golding message is that it isn’t reality, he believes if you put boys on the Island, they will do bad things, because the only things stopping us is Government and control.
What does the Quote ‘Except for a pair of tattered shorts, held up with his knife belt, he was naked’
Again there is symbolism using clothing. The boys are reverting back to a very primitive state, the fact that the boys clothes are taken off and they are ultimately going to end up naked is a symbol of how the boys are reverting to a sinless state.
What does ‘Ape like among the trees’ suggest
This is animalistic imagery, showing that the boys are losing their moral beliefs of religion to survive is gone. Humanist suggest that there is no God and believe in survival of fittest of life, so if we take out moral beliefs, we are left with a brutal survival of the fittest, there is no need for morals.
What does the Quote ‘Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach… passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands’ suggest?
There is a deliberate biblical image that Golding uses in Chapter 3, we have the brutal savage, analimstic evolutionary link and we have the religious image act and king generosity helping others.Putting these together suggests that Jesus figure is the better two.
