lord of the flies Flashcards
who are the main charecters (lotf)
piggy, ralph, jack, simon, roger
who are the minor charecters
little-uns, sam n eric, the beast, navel officer
who does piggy represent
-the female voice
-the disadvantaged
-lowerclass
whats a quote to show piggy representingh the female voice
‘my auntie says’
what society is LOTF set in (year)
1940’s
what quotes show piggy to be disadvantaged
‘my asthma’
‘shut up fatty’
‘shut up you fat slug’
‘my specs’
‘piggy’
what quote shows jack physically abusing piggy
‘stuck his fist in piggys stomache’
what quote shows piggy frustrated that his glasses were broken
‘i’ve only got one eye’
what quote shows roger killing piggy
“with a sense of delireous abandonment he put all his weight on the lever”
what quote shows piggy dead
“he twitched like a pig”
what quote shows the conch break
“exploded into a thousand fragments and ceased to exist”
what does the destruction of the conch signify
the loss of hope and democracy
how does piggy describe the conch
“delicite”
“ever so expesive”
what shows piggys concern to the situation with adults
“arent there any grown-ups “
what shows that piggy is invaluable
his specs started the fire and “i cant think like piggy “
what is piggy (ID, EGO or SUPEREGO)
SUPEREGO
who does jack represent
upper-class, elitists, hitler
what does jacks hair indicate
he has red hair that connotates anger
what is jack (ID, EGO or SUPEREGO)
ID- lead by the pleasure principle
jack and zoomorphism
“apelike among the trees”
what quote shows jacks self righteousness
“i aught to be chief because im head chorister and can sing a c sharp”
who was the quickest to desend into savagery
jack
what quotes show jacks obsession with the pigs
“i’d like to kill a pig first” (before being rescued)
what is the chant about the pigs
“kill the pig, cut her throught, spill the blood”
what quote shows jacks beginning innocence
“the enormity of the knife”
what quotes (2) shows jack rejecting the rules
“bolloks to the rules”
“im not playing your games anymore”
what order did the quior boys descend
chior boys- hunters- savages- demonic figures
what does the conch symbolise
democracy and civilisation
who does ralph symbolise
democracy, middle class and churchill
what is ralph (ID EGO or SUPEREGO)
EGO- balance between jack and piggy
what does the fire represent
hope and rescue
what quotes (2) show the fires significance
“the fire is the most important thing”
“you let the fire out”
what is the fire (ID EGO or SUPEREGO)
EGO- is is hope yet it can be dangerous (kills birthmark boy)
what is the meat symbolic of
sin (the apple in the origonal sin)
what is a quote to show zoomorthism whilst eating the meat
“gnaweed it like a wolf”
what are the pigs symbolic of
the jews in WWII
who is roger symbolic of
the sadists in society (terrorists)
who is simon symbolic of
jesus christ
why is simon representative of jesus christ
-hes linked to nature
-he never eats the meat
-line breaks between him and everyone else
what is a quote showing simons welcoming death
“open arms of the sea welcomed him in”
what is the island representative of
a microcosmic scociety (the garden of eden)
what quotes show goldings belief of “mankinds essential illness”
“mankinds essential illness”
“darkness of mans heart”
what context made golding think the way he does
- he lived through both wourld wars
- he served in WWII
- he was a school teacher
- he experienced D-Day
what quote shows the end of innocence
“ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of mans heart and his true and wise friend piggy”
what quotes show ralphs privilage
“built like a boxer”
“fair boy”
“golden boy”
what quotes show ralphs ignorance to the less advantaged
“sucks you your asthma “
“piggy”
what does ralph have at the end of the novel that resonate with golding
PTSD
what quote shows RALPHS savegery
“the power to squeese and hurt was overmastering”
what shows ralphs EGO
he hunts pigs and knows that he enjoys it but he still does important thuings like taking care of the fire
what are 2 key words used to describe simon
“batty” “queer”
what quote shows simon defending piggys usefulness
“we used his specs… he helped that way”
what quote shows simon helping the little-uns
“simon found for them, fruit they could not reach… passed them down to countless outstretched hands”
what quote shows the sound of simons death
“there was no sound but the tearing of teeth and claws”
what quote shows simon refusing the meat (apple)
“shoved his meat over the rocks to piggy”
what quote shows simons secrete area
” a secrete place in a clearing full of flowers and butterflies that danced”
what quote shows simons body moving to the sea
“simons dead body moved out towards the open sea”
what quote shows rogers darkness
“he was noticably darker”
what quote shows roger killing pigs
“prodding with his spear whever pig flesh appeared”
whats a simple quote for rogers spear
“sharpened a stick at both ends”
what quote shows rogers origonal temptation
“threw a stone to miss” “taboo of the old life”
what quote shows samneric explaining roger
“you dont know roger, hes a terror”
what quote shows how ralph is alike them all when killing pigs
“ralph too was fighting to get near”
what quotes show piggys responsibility (maturity)
“what would grown-ups think”
“acting like a bunch of kids”
what quote shows piggy using the power of the conch
“ive got the conch ive got a right to speak”
what quote shows simons knowlage of the beast
“maybie there is a beast maybie its only us”
‘rogers arm…
…was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins’
simons death- what do the waves do
“it touched the first of the stains that seeped from the broken body”
