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“there was a mildness about…

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…his mouth and eyes that proclaimed no devil” (abt ralph)
- inherently good

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“Here was…

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… a coral island”
- book was inspired by Coral Island

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“The creature was a party of boys, …

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…walking approximately in step in two parallel lines”
- creature = beast = boys themselves
- orderly and uniform like soldiers = military imagery = Golding fought in WW2

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“Choir!…

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…Stand still!” - Jack
- exclamatives + imperatives
- choir obey him but wearily
- shows his authority and that they’re scared of him
- sounds like a military command

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“the boys were a closed circuit of sympathy…

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…with Piggy outside”
- closed = they’re not open to him joining
- they are a working circuit without Piggy

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“Jack and Ralph…

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…smiled at each other with shy liking”

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“because of the enormity of the knife descending…

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…and cutting into living flesh: because of the unbearable blood”
- enormity = if he killed it, it would be the turning point and the start of their savagery = no going back
- he immediately gets defensive because he wants to impress them and prove himself but he wasn’t able to = toxic masculinity

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“snake-thing”

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  • vague description
  • reference to the serpent in the Garden of Eden = biblical allusion = the serpent represented evil
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“beastie”

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  • child-like description
  • reminds us that they’re only young schoolboys
  • physical, external creature
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“Jack seized…

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…the conch”
- conch = symbol of power
- he wants power
- seized = violent, aggressive = the only way he can get to a position of power is through violence

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“On one side the air was cool, but on the other…

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…the fire thrust out a savage arm of heat that crinkled hair on the instant”
- duality on the island
- personification

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“the conch doesn’t count…

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…on top of the mountain” - Jack
- Jack will easily twist the rules if it benefits him

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“scrambled up…
“The flames as though they were a kind of wildlife, crept…

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…like a bright squirrel”
…as a jaguar creeps on its belly”
- simile
- zoomorphism
- escalation of the fire as it evolved from a squirrel to a jaguar = escalation in savagery = metaphor for the boys

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“Piggy glanced nervously into hell…

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…and cradled the conch”
- subversion of the paradise island genre
- hell which the boys created
- protecting democracy because conch = democracy
- both Piggy and the conch seem vulnerable = the conch is his only form of protection

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“dog-like” (abt Jack)

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  • zoomorphism
  • animalistic
  • dogs need to be trained by people/ society to follow rules
  • dogs are domesticated animals which could show that he’s not completely savage yet but will be soon
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“ape-like”

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  • regressing further into a primitive savage state without society
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“we want meat” - Jack

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  • only thinking about short term needs which shows that he might have lost hope of rescue
  • priority is hunting = violent
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“we need shelters” - Ralph

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  • need = modal verb = shelters are vital
  • contrast between his and Jack’s priorities
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“all you can talk about is…

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…pig, pig, pig!” - Ralph
- tricolon + exclamative highlights Jack’s obsession with hunting + Ralph’s frustration

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“they walked along, two continents…

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… of experience and feeling, unable to communicate”
- war imagery = Golding fought in the war
- metaphor
- over time they drifted apart like continents
- although they’re from the same country, they’re worlds apart
- foreshadowing the different tribes

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“Jack planned his new face”

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  • uses red, white and black = Nazi colours
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“awesome stranger” (abt Jack seeing his reflection with the mask)

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  • links to “Strangers from Within” which was the original title of LOTF
  • saying that we ourselves are the beast?
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“his laughter became…

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…a bloodthirsty snarling” (abt Jack)
- he has unleashed his inner savagery

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(the mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid) “liberated from…

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…shame and self-consciousness”
- gives him freedom from the rules of society = ironic because the mask hides him and allows him to be himself
- taking off the mask of society and putting on a new mask
- Oscar Wilde quote

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Oscar Wilde quote

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“man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he’ll tell you the truth”

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“they let the bloody fire out” - Ralph

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  • at the height of his anger
  • the fact that ‘bloody’ was the worst word he could think of reminds us that he is still young and a child = shows his innocence
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“they were on different sides…

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…of a high barrier”
- barrier represents their different priorities, ideas and opinions
- also different styles of leadership: Ralph = words, rationality
Jack = violence, brute force
- ‘high’ = difficult to overcome
- high barrier = war imagery = Golding fought in war

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“one-side’s broken” (piggy’s glasses)

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  • link to civilisation is partially broken
  • boys are losing sight of their initial objective
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“this meeting must not be fun,…

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…but business”
- contrast to “we’ll have fun” in chapter 1/2
- he is maturing / growing up and realizing he’s got a job to do as chief

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“‘Life’, said Piggy expansively, ‘is scientific’”

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  • he needs evidence to believe in the beast which shows his maturity
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“unless we get frightened of people” - Piggy

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  • frightened of themselves
  • he thinks that humans are more frightening than the beast
  • rational thinker
  • links to the war = context
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“he says the beast comes out of the sea” - Jack

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  • they are surrounded by the beast = the beast could be the boys
33
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“Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express…

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…mankind’s essential illness”
- illness = innate evil = part of us and we have to live with it

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“Bollocks to the rules! We’re strong- we hunt!…

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…If there’s a beast, we’ll hunt it down!” - Jack
- Jack only follows the rules if and when they benefit him
- superiority complex
- his first thought and only option is violence
- exclamatives show his passion + anger

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“‘Conch! Conch!’ shouted Jack…

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…‘we don’t need the conch anymore’”
- exclamatives = mocking tone = mocking the rules
- links to the ‘pig, pig, pig!’ quote
- silencing them all = against democracy = fear mongering

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(However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before) “his inward sight the picture of a…

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…human at once heroic and sick”
- war imagery
- duallity = reflection of the island
- links to ‘mankind’s essential illness
- suggests that you need to be sick to be heroic and vice versa

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“something like a great ape” (referring to the dead parachuter)

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  • they think he is the beast
  • links back to Jack being described as ‘ape-like’ = suggests that the boys are the actual beasts
38
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(the pigs lay) “bloated bags of fat”

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  • metaphor
  • they don’t see the pigs as living things anymore, only food and entertainment
  • links to Piggy
    contrast between chapter 1: ‘the enormity of the knife descending…’
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(Jack) “started work on the sow and paunched her, lugging out the…

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…hot bags of coloured guts…He talked as he worked”
- ‘hot bags’ links to ‘hot blood’ and ‘bloated bags’
- he is gutting the pig so casually = immense contrast to when he wasn’t able to kill the piglet
- desensitised

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“Jack, painted and garlanded…

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…sat there like an idol”
- worshipping him like a God
- simile
- treating him like he is heroic which is ironic because he is the most villainous / devil-like character

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“Who’ll join my tribe and have fun?” - Jack

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  • the same thing the LOTF said: “we’re going to have fun”
  • suggesting that Jack is the LOTF
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“found themselves eager to take place in this…

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…demented but partly secure society” (abt Piggy and Ralph)
- mob mentality
- they believe in safety in numbers

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(scene of Simon’s death) they “leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words …

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…and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws”
- animalistic imagery
- list, asyndeton
- Simon is referred to the beast like its from the boys’ perspective = ironic becuause Simon was coming to tell them that the beast isn’t a physical creature
- ‘no words’ = no longer humans but animals = lost their humanity
- ‘teeth and claws’ = Sam & Eric described the dead parachutist (the beast) to have teeth and claws = linking the boys to the beast

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“that was murder” - Ralph

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  • feels guilty = still has some sense of sanity and humanity
  • used the legal term = links to civilisation
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“I’m frightened. Of us.” - Ralph

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  • caesura creates emphasis
  • scared of the realisation he’s come to (‘that was murder’) = scared of the boys and that they have lost their link to civilisation
  • links to “unless we get frightened of people” (Piggy)
  • links to “maybe its only us” (Simon)
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“Roger took up a small stone and…

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…flung it between the twins, aiming to miss”
- links to chapter 4 when he was “throwing to miss”

47
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(SamnEric protested) “out of the heart of civilisation”

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  • trying to appeal to Jack to remember their civilised selves
  • value the rules of society and civilisation
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“You’re a beast and a swine…

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…and a bloody, bloody thief!” (Ralph to Jack)
- links to worst word he could think of being ‘bloody’
- exclamative
- tricolon
- ‘beast’ = irony of Jack hunting the beast
- ‘swine’ = calling him the LOTF?
- ‘thief’ = stolen their civilised selves / morality / individuality + glasses , fire, etc…

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(Ralph was a shock of hair) “and Piggy a bag of fat”

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  • links to “bloated bags of fat”
  • not described as human but more like prey / their next victim
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“Piggy lifted the white magic shell”

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  • shell suggests that it is empty and no longer hold any value unlike ‘conch’
  • echo of what it once was
51
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“Which is better - to be a pack of painted n—– like you are,…

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…or sensible like Ralph is ?” - Piggy
- racist = could reflect the racist attitudes of that time period because no one shows a reaction to the slur
- lost his glasses = lost his sense of morality and clear-sightedness

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“Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment…

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…leaned all his weight on the lever”
- compared to ‘aiming to miss’ and ‘throwing to miss’ he has clear intention of killing
- contrast to the beginning when he said ‘let’s vote’ = civilised to savage

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“the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments…

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…and ceased to exist”
- like a bomb = war imagery
- all sense of civilisation has now been lost
- back to being referred to as ‘conch’ = regained its value after its been lost

54
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“his head opened and stuff came out” (abt Piggy)

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  • simplistic child-like vocab
  • emotionless, cold = like the boys
55
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“skull that gleamed as white…

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…as ever the conch had done”
- could symbolise the blurring between good and evil
- now that the conch (one of the most powerful things on the island) is gone the LOTF has taken is place

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“fun and games” -the naval officer

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  • Golding was a naval officer
  • naive to the fact that the boys are capable of such evil = reflective of Golding pre-war
  • links to the LOTF saying ‘we’re going to have fun’
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“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart…

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…and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy”
- ‘darkness’ = innate evil = Golding’s true message = reference to LOTF scene with Simon: ‘darkness that spread’
- recognises Piggy’s value as a friend after losing him = just like conch’s value was recognised after breaking

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