Lord of the Flies Quotations Flashcards
Chapter 1 quote on societal conditioning (Ralphs election)?
‘Will dreary obedience the choir raised their hands’
Chapter 1 quote on Ralph (Ralphs election)?
‘There was a stillness about Ralph that marked him out’
Chapter 1 quote on power & controls (finding the conch)?
‘His ordinary voice sounded like a whisper after the harsh note of the conch’
Chapter 1 quote on a child’s reaction to violence (Jack failing to kill the pig)?
‘The unbearable blood’
Chapter 1 quote on violence (Jack failing to kill the pig)?
‘The enormity the downwards stroke would be’
Chapter 1 quote on Jack & disguise/mask (Jack failing to kill the pig)?
‘Jacks face was white under the freakles’
Chapter 2 quote on loss of innocence regarding nature (signal fire)?
‘The knowledge and the awe made him savage’
Chapter 2 quote on fear & order (signal fire)?
‘The boys were falling still and silent’
Chapter 3 quote on Ralph & Jack (building the shelters)?
‘They looked at each other baffled in love and hate’
Chapter 3 quote on Jack & Ralph & leadership (building the shelters)?
‘Two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate’
Chapter 4 quote on the loss of innocence (the mask)?
‘Liberated from shame and self-conciousness’
Chapter 4 quote on Jack & savagery (the mask)?
‘He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling’
Chapter 4 quote on order & disorder (Rodger throwing stones)?
‘Taboo of the old life’
Chapter 4 quote on civilisation & human nature (Rodger throwing stones)?
‘Conditioned by a society that knew nothing of him and was in ruins’
Chapter 7 quote on violence (the mock execution)?
‘The desire to squeeze, and hurt was over-mastering’
Chapter 7 quote on human nature & fear (the mock execution)?
‘Just a game’
Chapter 7 quote on Ralph & violence (the mock execution)?
‘To get a handful of that brown, vulnerable flesh’
Chapter 8 quote on LOTF & evil (Simons talk with the LOTF)?
‘The Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned’
Chapter 8 quote on mortality (Simons talk with the LOTF)?
‘His gaze was held by that accent inescapable recognition’
Chapter 9 quote on savagery (Simon’s death)?
‘Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!’
Chapter 9 quote on evil/savagery (Simon’s death)?
‘The mouth of a new circle crunched and screamed’
Chapter 9 quote on fear & loss of innocence (parachutist)?
‘The beast was harmless and horrible’
Chapter 9 quote on mortality/death & civilisation vs savagery (parachutist)?
‘The white nasal bones, the teeth, the colours of corruption’
Chapter 11 quote on violence & savagery (Piggy’s death)?
‘Stuff came out’
Chapter 11 quote on order/disorder (Piggy’s death)?
‘The tribe shrieked’
Chapter 12 quote on civilisation & violence & Ralph (Navy Officer)?
‘Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of mans heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy’
Chapter 12 quote on return of civilisation (Navy Officer)?
‘The distended bellies of small savages’
