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Lord of the Flies Flashcards

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How is Ralph presented?

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  • Good/bad leader
  • Charismatic
  • Civilised
  • Aggressive
  • Piggy’s friend
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How is Piggy presented?

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  • Outsider
  • Civilised
  • Focused
  • Rational
  • Hot-headed
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How is Simon presented?

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  • Connected to nature
  • Kind
  • Sensitive
  • Solitary
  • Prophetic
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How is Roger presented?

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  • Enjoys suffering
  • Quiet
  • Watchful
  • Cruel
  • Menacing
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How is Jack presented?

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  • Controlling
  • Intimidating
  • Tyrannical
  • Savage
  • Bully
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Jack - tyrannical

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“Authority sat on his shoulder and chattered into his ear like an ape”

“Like an idol”

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Jack - controlling

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“The boy who controlled them”

“Jack was powerless and raged without knowing why”

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Jack - intimidating

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“Piggy asked no names…”

“Stared at the traces as though he would force them to speak to him”

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Jack - bully

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“Shut up, Fatty”

“You’re a lot of cry-babies and sissies”

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Jack - savage

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“His laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling”

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Roger - quiet

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“Kept to himself with an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy”

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Roger - enjoys suffering

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“Eyelids fluttering”
“Delirous abandonment”

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Roger - menacing

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“shock of black hair” “made what had at first seemed an unsociable remoteness into something foreboding”

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Roger - watchful

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“Roger remained, watching the littluns”

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Roger - cruel

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“The spear moved forward inch by terrifying inch, and the terrified squealing became a high-pitched scream”

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Simon - prophetic

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“Maybe it’s only us”

“I just think you’ll get back alright”

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Simon - solitary

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“He glanced around swiftly to confirm he was utterly alone”

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Simon - connected to nature

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“Softly, surrounded by a fringe of bright, inquisitive creatures”

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Simon - sensitive

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“The laughter beat him cruelly and he shrank away defenceless to his seat”

“He’s always throwing a faint”

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Simon - kind

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“He found for them the fruit they could not reach”

“Shoved his piece of meat over the rocks to Piggy”

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Ralph - civilised

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“continued to watch the ship, ravenously”

“Did desperate violence to his naked body”

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Ralph - good/bad leader

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“I’m Chief. I’ll go. Don’t argue.”

“Something flittered in front of his mind like a bat’s wing, obscuring his idea”

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Ralph - Charismatic

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“There was a mildness to his eyes and mouth that proclaimed no devil”

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Ralph - Piggy’s friend

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“Ralph elbowed him to one side”

“I can’t think, not like Piggy”
“True, wise friend”

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Ralph - aggressive

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“The desire to squeeze and hurt was overmastering”

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Piggy - outsider

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“The boys were a closed circuit of sympathy with Piggy outside”

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Piggy - rational

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“Life is scientific”

“what intelligence had been shown was traceable to Piggy”

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Piggy - hot-headed

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“You and your blood Jack Merridew!”

“We might have come home!”

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Piggy - civilised

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“I got the conch!”

“passionate willingness to carry the conch against all odds”

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Piggy - focused

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“Remember what we came for. The fire. My specs.”

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Context?

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  • School teacher
  • Gentle middle class background left him ill-prepared for the horrors of war
  • Served in the navy
  • Many of his friends were killed
  • He realised that both sides committed terrible acts of violence and cruelty to each other, and there wasn’t an inherently good side
  • The atrocities he witnessed were done by ‘civilised’ people
  • Atomic bombs were a threat, brink of nuclear war (cold war)
  • Fire is good and bad just like how atomic bombs were
  • Subverts the typical genre of books at the time involving children being innocent

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