Lord Of The Flies Flashcards
Piggy Death
“Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back”
Simon Beast
“Maybe there is a beast…Maybe it’s only us”
Roger Stick
“Roger sharpened a stick at both ends ”
Civilisation vs Savagery End
“Ralph wept for the end of innocence ”
Power and Leadership Vote
“You voted me chief now you do as I say ”
Group Dynamics - Piggy’s comments on kid
“Like a crowd of kids”
Group Dynamics - Piggy on Jacks blood
“You and your blood Jack Merridew ”
Simon’s Dead Body
“Simon’s body moved out towards the open sea ”
Violence on Pig
“Right up her ass”
Ralph on Piggy
“He’s not fatty. He’s piggy!”
Ralph think
“I can’t think, not like piggy.”
Piggy condition
“Ass-mar”
Piggy Speak
“You let me speak!”
Piggy right
“Because what’s rights, right”
Piggy eyes
“Specs”
Jack on the beast
“My hunters will protect you from the Beast”
Civilisation vs Savagery
“Which is better - to have rules and agree , or to hunt and kill”
Civilisation vs Savagery Conch
“The conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist”
Jack on chief
“I ought to be chief”
Jack leading
“Once more Jack led them on”
Jack on Leading
“Once more Jack led them along”
Jack on Conch
“We don’t need the conch anymore”
Jack on pig
“Kill the pig .Cut her throat. Spill her blood”
Jack on rules
“Bollocks to the rules”
Jack on littluns
“Sucks to the littluns”
Jack on power
“I’m not going to play anymore”
Ralph on simons murder
“That was Simon … That was murder”
Simon fruit
“Simon found for them the fruit that they could not reach”
Golding interview
Man produces evil as bees produce honey
How simon is killed
“ripping of tooth and claw”
Ralph primal desire
‘The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering’
Roger’s arm
‘Roger’s arm was conditioned by civilisation’
simon illness
‘inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness’
island foreshadows bloodshed
‘The water was warmer than blood
Piggy on science
’life is scientific’
Piggy’s body when he dies
‘arms and legs twitched a bit, like a pig’s after it has been killed’
Jack shoulder
’authority sat on his shoulder and chattered in his ear like an ape.’
Jack hiding
Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness’
Roger’s stick
“stick sharpened at both ends”
Ralph cat
’Ralph launched himself like a cat; stabbing, snarling, with the spear’
Jack’s hair
‘his hair was red beneath the black cap’
Piggy’s hair
‘only boy …whose hair never seemed to grow’
The lord of the Flies
‘The Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned’
