LoTF Setting Flashcards
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5 quotes about Simon’s death
“The cannon boomed” - extended metaphor
“Thunder went off like a gun”
“The dark sky” - can’t see blood, etc
“It” “The beast” “Simon” - some boys knew who it was
“Inquisitive bright creatures”
Context - Simon’s death
Golding was shocked by the horrors of WW2 and what civilised human beings could do to each other during wartime
Context - Darkness
Golding was a teacher, so knew how young children often behaved and what they feared
4 quotes about darkness
“We ought to have left this for daylight” - meeting in Ch5
“There was confusion in the darkness and the creature lifted its head”
“The danger had faded with the darkness” - deciding to hunt the beast
“Hit with more and more passionate hysteria” - Sam ‘n’ Eric
3 quotes about the boys’ destruction of the island
“The scar”
“Crept as a jaguar”
“We saw your smoke”
Context for the boys’ destruction of the island
Golding wrote the novel during the Cold War, threat of nuclear weapons
Could be seen as a positive and negative thing, like the boys’ fire
4 quotes about Ralph’s opinion of the island
“No grown ups!”
“He found himself understanding the weariness of this life”
“Everything was all right”
“If only one could have pax!”
Context for Ralph’s opinion of the island
Golding had a gentle, middle-class upbringing that left him ill-prepared for the horrors of war, similar to Ralph
Context for Simon’s place
The Lord of the Flies is the English translation of Beelzebub, or the Devil, and Simon represents Jesus = good and evil meeting, Simon being consumed by evil at the end of Chapter 8
4 quotes about Simon’s place
“Even the butterflies deserted the open space where the obscene thing grinned and dripped”
“Green sepals”
“A place where more sunshine fell”
“The other time the air had seemed to vibrate with heat, now it threatened”
