Middle (chapters 5-8)

Question 1

Middle

How Piggy is presented + Piggy quotes

Answer 1

Piggy is presented as…
A moral authority/parental figure, disregarded, feminine.

1) “Are there ghosts Piggy? Or beasts?”
2) “But Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains.”
3) “Unless we get frightened of people.”
4) “Piggy took off his one round of glass and polished the surface.”
5) “Can’t they understand?Without a smoke signal we’ll die here?”
6) “Only Piggy could have the intellectual daring to suggest moving the fire.”

Question 2

Middle

How Ralph is presented + Ralph quotes

Answer 2

Ralph is presented as…
Inarticulate, a symbol of law and order, losing morality.

1) “We need an assembly. Not for fun.”
2) “The rules are the only thing we’ve got.”
3) “‘You haven’t got the conch,’ he said. ‘Sit down.’”
4) “Ralph too was fighting to get near, to get a handful of that brown vulnerable flesh.”
5) “Ashes blew into Ralph’s face from the dead fire.”
6) “He turned to the platform, feeling the need for ritual.”

Question 3

Middle

How Jack is presented + Jack quotes

Answer 3

Jack is presented as…
Leaving civillisation, atavistic

1) “We don’t need the conch anymore.”
2) “[Jack] wore the damp darkness of the forest like his old clothes.”
3) “Bollocks to the rules! We’re strong – we hunt.”
4) “Jack transferred the knife to his left hand and smudged blood over his forehead.”
5) “This head is for the beast. It’s a gift.”
6) “‘Jack.’ A taboo was evolving round that word too.”

Question 4

Middle

How Simon is presented + Simon quotes

Answer 4

Simon is presented as…
A vehicle for Golding message about human evil, a demonstration of the veneer theory.

1) “Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.”
2) “Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick.”
3) “Simon mumbled confusedly: ‘I don’t believe in the beast.’”
4) “A half-sound of jeering ran round the circle and Simon shrank from it.”
5) “Simon stayed where he was […] The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life.”
6) “You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close!”

Question 5

Middle

How Roger is presented + Roger quotes

Answer 5

Roger is presented as…
Violent through the symbol of the knife, eager for power and acknowledgement.

1) “Astonishingly, a dark figure moved against the tide.”
2) “Jack and Roger drew near, changed from the ink-stains to distinguishable figures.”
3) “Roger ran round the heap, prodding his spear whenever pig flesh appeared.”
4) “The spear moved forward inch by inch.”
5) “He spoke over his shoulder to Roger. ‘Sharpen a stick at both ends.’”