Piggy Flashcards
1
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piggy quotes - beginning
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‘on account of my asthma’
‘I didn’t expect nothing’
2
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‘on account of my asthma’
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- piggy is already an outsider
- he has a disadvantage to the other boys, perhaps making him less likely to survive
- asthma requires an inhaler which is advanced equipment -> this links piggy to the outside world
3
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‘I didn’t expect nothing’
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- piggy is an outsider
- his use of language tells us he is of a lower class than the other boys
4
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piggy quotes - middle
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“what are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?”
5
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“what are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?”
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- this quote show the real intention of the book, which is to show how easy it is under pressure to fall into savage-like behaviour
- shows the struggle to build a civilisation and Piggy fearing if they fail to build a civilisation, savagery will take over the island
- the boys are loosing grip on the rules and ideals, which is all they have left to hold onto
6
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piggy quotes - end
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‘the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist’
“I thought they wanted the Conch”
7
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‘the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist’
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- throughout the book the conch represented civilisation
- the conch got destroyed with Piggy’s death -> civilisation died with piggy
- grants the tribe ability to kill as this was first intentional murder
- a ‘thousand white fragments’ symbolises the conch is beyond repair -> if it was broken into 2 or 3 pieces, it could be repaired -> it is in a thousand pieces so is unusable
- ‘ceased to exist’ shows the power of the conch has gone, allowing savagery to descend over the island
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“I thought they wanted the Conch”
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- more worried about losing the conch than losing his sight
- piggy is very ordered around order, like most adults
