lord of the fliea Flashcards
lord of the flies
author Wiliam golding
Genre Allegorical novel
lord of the flies is written as a
an allegory which uses charcter event elements of a story
Ralph
Protagonist leader strong athlethic civlized
Piggy
glasses intelligent thinks of the conch knows what its used for
simon
Posses the sixth sense has visions that connect to nature finds the beast and speaks to lord of the flies
boy w the birthmark
1st fatality on the island dies as a result of boys savage /iresponsible behaviour feels remorse
sam/eric
Twins /loss of identity remain with ralph and piggy to the fire
conflict man vs man
loss of socal order the boys revert to savagery and became brutal and immortal
Climax simon lord of the flies
simon speaks to the lord of the flies and learns the truth the evil of the beastie is within us
Resolution
The boys are rescued by the naval officers
The brutal killing of sow
The brutal killing of sowforeshadowing the ssdistic killing of simon
Foreshadowing The death of piggy
The boulder that the boys roll off the cliff the rocks they throw at the little uns
Foreshadowing simons and discover about the lord of the flies and evil
Simon visions the dead parachutist
Irony about the fire
The fire at the end that gets them rescued was started by jack
irony about the naval officer
The naval officer who rescues them who will rescue adults /him war
Irony ralph and jack
Ralph we’ll be like we were
jack we’ll have rules after all were not savages
symbol of Piggys Glasses
Intelligance reason
Symbols The conch
Order of the adult world authority coming toghther
Symbol the fire
Connect to civlizations ralphs democratic way of leading signal rescue saftey
Symbol The beastie
Internal fear mans capacity for evil
Symbols the lord of the flies
The power that evil inside man and the boys can have
Themes Visions
Piggy and his glasses blinded with out glasses piggy still remains blind to the evil that is in each of the boys .
Themes loss of identitiy
percival ,samneric
Themes Need for social order
Ralph the conch rules civlization piggy tries to hold on
jack has no need for social order/rules
Themes Loss of innocence
No longer innocent children no adults
creation of new society isolated island
evil savagery death
