LOTF Flashcards
Quote for decent into savagery
‘Skull like coconuts’ Connotations of death and decay. Which foreshadows the boys morales decaying. Slow process like the boys slowly decaying into savagery
Fall of coconut links to fall of man
Decent into savagery
‘Then dog-like,uncomfortable on all fours yet unheeding his discomfort’
‘Dog like’ has connotations of zoomorphism. This referents the descents into savagery
‘Pets’-Trained to be domesticated-allegory for humanity and civilisation
‘Unheeding’ lack of awareness of their true natures
Inherent evil
‘Snake thing’
Corruption of man, snake tempted Adam and Eve
Democracy and dictatorship
‘Bollocks to the rules’
Juxtaposition to earlier on in book
‘They obeyed the summons of the conch’
‘We don’t need the conch anymore we know who ought to speak’
Violence quote
‘Kill the pig cut her throat,spill her blood’
Quote for conch
‘They obeyed the summons of the conch ..’
‘The conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist’
Friendship
‘True wise friend piggy’
Simon
Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach’
Maybe there is a beast, what I mean is… maybe it’s just us
Ralph
How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put the first things first and act proper
Novels protagonist
Symbolises order and civilisation
Fire
Represents civilisation
Rescue
Destruction
Beast
Starts of as beast
Then snake like thing
Piggy
‘Shutup fatty’
‘We should be looking like we used to, after all we aren’t savages really’
Always tries to remind them not to give in to savage nature until he dies
Jack
‘We don’t need the conch anymore we know who ought to say things’
‘I ought to be chief’