LORD OF THE FLIES Contextual Quotations Flashcards
1
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Golding: ‘The theme of Lord of the Flies is…
A
grief, grief, grief’
2
Q
Golding: ‘I was tired of these paper cut out islands with their…
A
goodies and baddies and everything for the best’
3
Q
Golding: ‘A naive belief in…
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the perfectibility of man’
4
Q
Golding: ‘Lamenting the lost…
A
childhood of the world’
5
Q
Golding: ‘one of the faults of the British is to believe that…
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evil is somewhere else, and inherent in another nation.’
6
Q
Golding: ‘the boys are suffering from…
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the terrible disease of being human’
7
Q
Others: ‘Terrible things done, not by savages, but…
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the same civilization that produced Mozart and Bach’
8
Q
Others: ‘the gift is useless, there is no…
A
beast in the forest, it’s inside us’
