Motifs Flashcards
Conch (value and importance)
‘It’s every so valuable’
Conch (society weakening on island)
‘Exposure to the air had bleached the yellow and pink to near-white and transparency’
Conch (breakdown of civilisation)
‘The conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist’
Fire (violent fire)
‘Reached up to a branch’ ‘exploded with a sharp crack’
Fire (personification)
‘Savage arm of heat’
Fire (war imagery)
‘A tree exploded in the fire like a bomb’
The Beast (ape like- links to human)
‘Something like a great ape’
The Beast (human beast)
‘Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick’
The Beast (human interpretation of beast)
‘There were eyes - Teeth - Claws’
The Beast (realisation of Beast being them)
‘What I mean is… maybe it’s only us’
The Beast (figment of imagination)
‘The beast was harmless and horrible’
Glasses (clear sightedness)
‘Nowadays he sometimes found that he saw more clearly if he removed his glasses and shifted the one lens to the other eye’
The island (natural beauty)
‘Bright flowers grew and butterflies danced’
The Island (danger signs)
‘A bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry’
The Island (religious, garden of Eden)
‘Forming a criss-cross pattern of trunks, very convenient to sit on’ - like the island was made for them, like the Garden of Eden
