Lord of the flies quotes Flashcards
Chapter 1 - asthma
“Sucks to your ass-mar!”
ass-mar - mimics piggys pronunciation - makes fun
sucks - he doesnt care
Chapter 1 - conch
“a conch he called it”
knows what it is
he called - remembers the information - clever
Chapter 1 - intelligent
“we can use this to call the others”
Chapter 1 - Jack intro
“the eye was first attracted to a black, bat like creature that danced on the sand”
creature - automatically links jack to the beast and therefore evil/savagery/darkness
Chapter 1 - Jack control
“the boy who controlled them”
controlled - dictates them - hilter figure
Chapter 1 - Jack and ralph bond
“smiled at each other with shy liking”
Chapter 2 - Jack undermines
“we’ll look for the snake too”
undermines ralphs authority - links to controlling the boys and shows his want for power
Chapter 2 - fire
“we must make a fire”
imperative - takes control - wants to help
Chapter 2 - Jack violent
“jack snatched the glasses off his face”
snatched - implies violence and possessiveness over objects that aren’t his
Chapter 2 - bad side
“beneath them, on the bad side of the mountain, the drum roll continued”
Chapter 3 - time passed
“his sandy hair, considerably longer now”
Chapter 3 - Jacks violence
“the compulsion to track down and kill”
compulsion - he has to do it - shows savagery appearing
Chapter 4 - war paint
“no longer at himself, but at an awesome stranger”
awesome - he thinks the savagery is worthy of praise and admiration
Chapter 4 - piggy not changing
“he was the only boy on the island whose hair never seemed to grow”
never - unchanging
piggy is symbolic of civilisation so his unchanging nature shows the capability to be civilised is still there
Chapter 4 - fire ralph
“they’ve let the bloody fire out”
bloody - expletive/swear shows his anger
Chapter 4 - chant
“kill the pig. cut her throat. spill her blood.”
semantic field of violence - shows savagery
Chapter 5 - ralph authority
“you voted me for chief. now you do what I say”
do - imperative - ralph becomes more controllimg
Chapter 5 - jack breaks rules
“who cares”
Chapter 5 - jack kill beast
“we’ll close in and beat and beat and beat”
triplet exaggerates the violent nature of the act
close in - surrounding and trapping
Chapter 5 - jacks feelings about ralph
“he hates you too, ralph”
Chapter 6 - piggy fear
“he hung about near for all his brave words”
Chapter 6 - jacks excitement about beast
“that’ll be a real hunt! who’ll come”
Chapter 7 - ralph hunts
“i hit him! the spear stuck in_”
Chapter 7 - ralph attention
“he tried for their attention”
tried - desperate for them to notice him
Chapter 7 - jack threat robert
“jack had him by the hair and was brandishing a knife”
brandishing - connotes anger - shows danger
alternatively it can be done in excitement - shows brutality
Chapter 7 - ralph question to jack
“why do you hate me?”
Chapter 8 - jack overthrows
“hands up … whoever wants ralph not to be chief?”
Chapter 8 - piggy intelligent
“only piggy could have the intellectual daring to suggest moving the fire from the mountain”
intellectual daring - makes him seem superior and very clever - he stands out from the others
Chapter 5 - simon beast
“What I mean is… Maybe it’s only us…”
Chapter 8 - beast to simon
“Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!”
fancy - patronising
Chapter 8 - jack sacrifice
“we’ll leave some of the kill for it. then it wont bother us maybe”
maybe - questioning - hints at some fear/trepidation felt by jack
Chapter 9 - piggy loses composure
“stop it’ he shouted ‘d’you hear?”
Chapter 9 - jack commands
“take them some meat”
Chapter 9 - protection
“my hunters will protect you from the beast”
my - possessive of people - controlling
protect - implies the beast is dangerous - manipulative
Chapter 10 - ralph guilt
“that was simon…that was murder”
Chapter 9 - beast
“they could see how small the beast was…it’s blood was staining the sand”
Chapter 10 - ralph realisation
“i’m frightened. of us.”
Chapter 10 - jack savage
“he’s going to beat wilfred”
Chapter 10 - fear -> power
“he may come again”
Chapter 10 - glasses=power
“from his left hand dangled piggy’s glasses”
Chapter 11 - paint
“the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought”
Chapter 11 - piggy is killed
“his head opened and stuff came out”
Chapter 11 - metaphor of death
“like a pigs after it has been killed”
comparison to pig - dehumanising
Chapter 12 - old life gone
“this was not bill, this was a savage”
Chapter 12 - island is on fire
“the burning wreckage of the island”
Chapter 12 - ralph cries
“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy”
Chapter 2 - sticks up
“We used [Piggy’s] specs…He helped that way”
Chapter 7 - comfort
“You’ll get back all right. I think so, anyway”
