Lord Of The Flies (General) Flashcards
Ralph Quotes
‘boy with fair hair’
‘there was a mildness about his mouth and eyes that proclaimed no evil’
‘ignoring Piggy’s’ ill-omened talk, he dreamed pleasantly’
“The fire is the most important thing on the island”
‘There was a stillness about Ralph…that marked him out’
“That was murder”
‘We ought to have more rules’
“I’m frightened. Of us. I want to go home. Oh God, I want to go home.”
“I’m chief. I was chosen”
“Because rules are the only thing we’ve got!”
‘Ralph too was fighting to get near, to get a handful of that brown, vulnerable flesh’
“This is our island, it’s a good island. Until the grown-ups come to fetch us we’ll have fun.”
“Didn’t you see what we – what they did?”
‘Ralph dredged in his fading knowledge of the world’
‘The kid needed a bath, a hair-cut, a nose-wipe and a good deal of ointment’
“which is better – to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?”
‘Ralph launched himself like a cat; stabbing, snarling, with the spear, and the savage doubled up’
Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness in man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy’
Jack Quotes
‘The boy who controlled them…he shouted an order and they halted’’
‘Next time there would be no mercy. He looked around fiercely, daring them to contradict’
‘Jack clamoured among them, the conch forgotten’
“We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English”
‘down like a sprinter…dog-like’
‘less like a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees’
‘Authority sat on his shoulder and chattered in his ear like an ape.’
‘his sinewy body held up a mask that…appalled them’
‘struck his fist into Piggy’s stomach’
‘knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing…taken away its life like a long satisfying drink’
‘his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling’
“Bollocks to the rules”
‘Jack paused, cradling the conch’
“I ought to be chief,” said Jack with simple arrogance, “because I’m chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp.”
Jack had him by the hair and was brandishing his knife’
‘A stain in the darkness, a stain that was Jack, detached itself and began to draw away’
About Ralph: “He isn’t a hunter. He’d never have got us meat. He isn’t a prefect’
‘He was a chief now in truth; and he made stabbing motions with his spear. From his left handdangled Piggy’s broken glasses’
“We’ll raid them and take fire”
“We hunt and feast and have fun”
‘painted and garlanded, sat there like an idol’
‘A little boy who wore the remains of a black cap on his red hair’
Piggy Quotes
‘shorter than the fair boy and very fat
‘looked up through thick spectacles’
“We got to find the others. We got to do something”
‘what intelligence had been shown was traceable to Piggy’
‘Piggy was an outsider’
‘Piggy glanced nervously into hell and cradled the conch’
‘disinclination for manual labour’
“The first thing we ought to have made were shelters”
“What’s grown-ups goin’ to think? Young Simon was murdered.
“If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway”
‘Only Piggy could have the intellectual daring to suggest moving the fire’
‘so full of pride in his contribution to the good of society’
‘the arrow of the sun fell on him’
“It was an accident”
“I’m going to him with the conch in my hands…because what’s right’s right”
‘Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back across that square, red rock in the sea’
Piggy’s arms and legs twitched a bit, like a pig’s after it has been killed’
Simon Quotes
‘Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach’
‘he cocked a critical ear at the sounds of the island’
‘what he saw seemed to make him afraid’
‘Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness’
‘Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick’
‘Simon’s effort fell about him in ruins’
‘Simon stood up and took the conch from Piggy’
“Maybe there is no beast…maybe it’s only us”
‘in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned’
‘his gaze was held by that ancient, inescapable recognition’
‘Simon was inside the mouth. He fell down and lost consciousness’
‘the water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness’
‘The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
‘Simon’s dead body moved out towards the open sea’
Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill
Roger Quotes
‘ a slight, furtive boy…with an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy.
‘Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry – threw it to miss. (p.64)
Roger’s arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins. (p. 65)
‘One piglet, with a demented shriek, rushed into the sea trailing Roger’s spear behind it’
‘Roger sharpened a stick at both ends’
‘with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever’
‘carried death in his hands’
‘Roger advanced upon them as one wielding a nameless authority’
Conch Quotes
‘The note boomed again…a strident blare more penetrating than before’
‘a silent gleaming tusk’
‘[Jack] had not got the conch and thus spoke against the rules; but nobody minded’
‘Ralph smiled and held up the conch for silence’
“If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it”
‘[Ralph] lay the conch with great care in the grass at his feet’
‘The group of boys looked at the white shell with affectionate respect’
‘By him stood Piggy still holding out the talisman, the fragile, shining beauty of the shell’
‘the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist’
