Lord Of The Flies Flashcards
Simon as considerate and kind
‘Found them the fruit they could not reach’
‘You’ll get back to where you came from’
Simons connection with nature
‘The candle buds opened their wide white flowers’
‘Just a place I know. A place in the jungle’
Simon’s Death
‘Tearing of teeth and claws’
‘Clouds opened and let down the rain like a waterfall’
‘Dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness’
The beast
‘He says the beastie came in the dark’
‘Maybe there is a beast…maybe it is only us’
‘The creature lifted its head, holding towards them the face of ruin’
‘Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt and kill’
Violence and savagery
‘Laughter became a Bloodthirsty snarling’
‘Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!’
‘The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering’
‘Sharpen a stick at both ends’
Law and Order
‘We can use this to call the others, have a meeting’
‘lets have a vote’
‘I ought to be chief’
‘Lots of Rules! Then when anyone breaks em—‘
‘We’ve got to have rules and obey them after all we are not savages. We’re English’
‘I’m chief. I’ll go. Don’t argue’
Fear
the beast
‘I’m frightened. Of us. I want to go home. Oh God, I want go home.’
Piggy Key quotes
‘Cradled the conch’
‘Grown ups know things…they aren’t afraid of the dark’
‘What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?’
‘Which is better — to be a pack of painted Indians like you are of be sensible like Ralph is?’
Destruction of civilisation
‘The conch exploded into a thousand white fragments’
‘Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?’
‘The fire swallowed them noisily’
Nature
‘Fledged with palm trees’
‘The snapping sharks waited’
‘The hunters savagery was like the darkness of the forest’
‘Burning wreckage’
Jack Key quotes
‘The compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up’
‘The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering’
‘I am not going to play no longer’
‘Authority chattered in his ear like an ape’
‘Viciously, with full intention, he hurled his spear at Ralph’
Ralph Key quotes
‘We can have a good time on this island’
‘There was a ship. Out there. You said you’d keep the fire going and you let it out’
‘Wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of a man’s heart’
Initial descent into savagery
‘Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them…threw it to miss’
‘Discarded their cloaks’
‘Painted faces and long hair’
Leadership
‘Ralph raised a hand for silence’
‘The rules are the only things we’ve got’
‘Bollocks the rules! We’re strong — we hunt’
‘Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?’
Jacks leadership
‘We’re going to hunt. I’m going to be chief’
