Lotf Flashcards
Ralph quotes
“I’ll give the conch to the next person to speak.”
“He hovered between the two courses of apology or further insult”
“The desire to squeeze and hurt was over mastering”
“Thing’s are breaking up. I don’t understand why.”
“Ralph hit with passionate hysteria as the face became slippery”
“There was… a feverish excitement in his voice” (simons death)
(link to freud ig/ego/superego)
Piggy quotes
“How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?”
“His voice rose to a shriek of terror as Jack snatched the glasses off his face”
“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What’s grownups going to think?”
“if you stand out of the way he’d hurt the next thing. And that’s me.”
“that’s what it was. An accident”
“Awful things has been done on this island”
(marxist reading- lower class oppressed)
Jack quotes
“You’re talking too much…Shut up,Fatty”
“We’re English, and the English are the best at everything”
“able at last to hit , Jack stuck his fist into Piggy”
“the red drained from Jack’s cheeks, then came back with a painful rush”
“jack backed up against the tribe and they became a solid mass of menace bristling with spears”
“jack made a rush and stabbed at Ralph’s chest with his spear”
Simon quotes
“We used Piggy’s specs. He helped that way”
“We could make scratches on bark … and rub black stuff in.”
“you’ll get back alright- i think so anyway”
“maybe it’s only us”
(simon/the beast) “cried out against the abominable noise”
LOTF readings
Marxist reading
Original sin
Verneer theory
Rousseau
Freud
Simon allegory for Christ
LOTF grade 9 vocab
Microcosm
Allegory
bildungsroman
Deux es machina