Lord of the flies - Chapter 3 Flashcards
Jack begins his descent into savagery
Stalks a pig like an expert hunter
The primitive symbol of the spear appears for the first time
Ralph focuses on building shelters
Ralph is annoyed by the fact that no one else apart from Simon helps him
why were the shelters needed?
The shelters were needed for the littl‘uns who had begun to have nightmares of the “beastie”
The Eden-like paradise that the island represents feels unsafe as the boys’ evil infiltrates the island
What were the other boys doing instead of helping?
“ bathing or eating or playing”
Which irritates Ralph who wants to be rescued
This initiates the fundamental differences in the priorities of the boys
Ralph and Jack argue
Ralph thinks the fire is most important.
Jack thinks that hunting is most important
Simon
Simon is the Christ like figure.
He retrieves into his den in the forest as the reader discovers his love the nature he sits behind the “screen of leaves” near the bush with the “candle buds”
Descriptions of Jack as a hunter
‘Jack was bent double…tattered shorts…almost naked…crouched’
‘The madness came into his eyes again’
‘[Jack] tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up’
What happens in chapter 3?
some days later
- Ralph thinks that having the signal fire and building shelters is important
- Jack thinks that hunting is more important
- The boys are frightened
What are the themes in chapter 3?
Civilisation and savagery
power
fear
good and evil
How does Jack describe to Ralph how he seems to sense the presence of the beast?
‘sometimes you catch yourself feeling s if … you’re not hunting but - being hunted, as if something is behind you the whole time in the jungle’
–> Golding uses Jack and his fear to symbolise the internal beast within all of us
