LOTF Quotes Flashcards
Piggy’s death
‘The conch exploded into a thousand white fragments’
‘Like a pig after it’s been killed’
‘Incantation of hatred’
Jack failing to kill the pig (Chapter 1)
‘The unbearable blood’
‘Jack’s face was white under the freckles’
‘There came a pause, a hiatus, the pig continued to scream.’
Ralph’s election (Chapter 1)
‘said Jack with simple arrogance’
‘Let’s have a vote’
‘But there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out’
Simon’s death (Chapter 9)
‘Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!”
“The tearing of teeth and claws”
“The circle became a horseshoe”
The mock execution (Chapter 7)
‘Jack shouted. Make a ring!’
‘The desire to squeeze and hurt was overmastering’
Roger throwing stones (Chapter 4)
‘Threw it to miss’
‘taboo of the old life’
‘arm was conditioned by civilization’
Finding/Using the conch (Chapter 1)
‘His ordinary voice sounded like a whisper after the harsh note of the conch’
‘Piggy was shouting something, his face pleased’
Parachutist (Chapter 9)
‘The beast was harmless and horrible’
‘Simon knelt on all fours and was sick till his stomach was empty’
‘The flies had found the figure too’
Navy Officer (Chapter 12)
‘He saw white drill, epaulettes, a revolver, a row of gilt buttons down the front of a uniform’
‘Fun and games’
‘ralph answered shyly. “Hullo” ‘
Building of the shelters (Chapter 3)
‘You want to hunt!’
‘They faced each other’
‘Baffled, in love and hate’
Simon’s talk with the Lord of the Flies (Chapter 8)
‘The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw’
‘His eyes could not break away and the Lord of Flies hung in space before him’
‘Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt and kill’
Signal Fire (Chapter 2)
‘The boys were falling still and silent’
‘The flames, as though they were a kind of wildlife’
Setting fire to island (Chapter 12)
‘Screaming, snarling, Bloody’
‘They were all running, all crying out madly’
‘All at once the lights flickering ahead of him merged together’
Loss of innocence
‘The boys were falling still and silent’
‘His eyes could not break away’
‘Liberated shame and self-consciousness’
Democracy
‘Let’s have a vote’
‘The conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist’
‘The harsh note of the conch’
Jack
‘Jack’s face was white under the freckles’
“Jack shouted. ‘Make a ring!’ “
Civilization
‘A row of gilt buttons down the front of a uniform’
‘arm was conditioned by civilization’
The conch ___________ _________ _________
The conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
Like a _____ _____ ____ been killed
Like a pig’s after it has been killed.
‘The body of Piggy was _____’
The body of Piggy was gone.
This time the silence was _______
This time the silence was complete.
Jack bounded out from the tribe and began _______ ______
Jack bounded out from the tribe an began screaming wildly
‘Visciously, with full ______
Visciously, with full intention
‘He obeyed an instinct that he did not know ______’
he possessed
‘Then he was crashing through foliage and small broughs and was _______’
hidden by the forest
Quote for the parallel of the twins and J&R
‘Now the twins, with unsuspected intelligence’
‘Sharing this _____’ J &R
Sharing this burden
Quote for strange friendship between J&R
‘Strange invisible light of friendship’
‘Not for the ______ ____ us’ J&R
Not for the two of us
‘Laughing with _________ pleasure’ J&R
‘Laughing with triumphant pleasure’
‘Joined in ____ ____ _____’ J&R
Joined in effort by the burden
‘____ blushed too’ J&R
Jack blushed too
‘Now the ___ ______ was open’ J&R
Now the absurd situation was open
‘Last confession of _________’ J&R
Last confession of incompetence
Quote for loss of innocence at the very end
‘Ralph wept for the end of innocence’
Quote for Simon’s realisation of the beast
‘Maybe it’s only us’
‘He became inarticulate to express mankind’s essential illness’
Quote for transition into savagery chapter 11
They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought.
Quote for Jack wanting to have power over ralph
-Bollocks to the rules!
-‘I’m not going to be a part of Ralph’s lot’
Quote for Jack using the beast to control
-My hunters will protect you from the beast. Will you join my tribe?
-‘If there’s a beast we’ll hunt it down.
-‘No! How could we kill it?’
Quote for madness at the end
‘They were all running, all crying out madly’
