LOTF quotes Flashcards
Savagery
1) ‘As they danced, they sang. ‘Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in.’ ‘
2) ‘he was safe from shame or self-consciousness begins the mask of his paint’
3) ‘ at once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore’
4) ‘his head opened and stuff came out and turned red. Piggy’s arms and legs twitched a bit, like a pig’s after it has been killed’
5) ‘the hunters, circling still, pretended to beat him’
Civilisation
1) ‘this toy of voting was almost as pleasing as the conch’
2) ‘Jack held out his hands for the conch and stood up, hold the delicate thing in his sooty hands’
3) ‘flower and fruit grew together on the same tree and everywhere was the scent of ripeness and the blooming of a million bees at pasture’
4) ‘here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life’
5) ‘Rogers arm was conditioned by a civilisation that knew nothing of him and was in ruins’
Innocence
1) ‘Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of mans heart, and the fall through the air of a true wise friend called piggy’
2) ‘the vivid horror of this, so possible and so nakedly terrifying held them all silent’
3) ‘when you went to bed there was a bowl of cornflakes with sugar and cream’
4) ‘Ralph, cradling the conch, rocked himself to and fro’
The beast
1) ‘then the wind roared in the forest, there was confusion in the darkness and the creature lifted its head, holding toward them the ruin of a face’
2) ‘Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness’
3) ‘however Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick’
