Power Flashcards
initially, power is presented…
(ch.1)
through humanity’s destruction of the natural world and power over nature
finish the quote: ‘all round him the long….
….scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat’
finish the quote: ‘torn everywhere by…
…the upheavals of fallen trees’
finish the quote: ‘he snatched his knife…
…out of the sheath and slammed it into a tree trunk’
finish the quotation : ‘tried to control…
…the motions of the scavengers’
finish the quotation: ‘he felt himself exercising…
…control over living things’
initially, power is presented…
(ch.1)
as democratic
finish the quote: ‘let’s have…
…a vote’
finish the quote: ‘what do you…
…want them to be?’
initially, power is presented…
(ch.1)
through ralph’s leadership qualities
finish the quote: ‘let him be chief…
…with the trumpet thing’
finish the quote: ‘there was his size…
…and attractive appearance’
finish the quote: ‘ralph raised…
…a hand for silence’
finish the quote: ‘the assembly was lifted…
..toward safety by his words’
finish the quote: ‘they liked…
…and now respected him’
initially, power is presented…
(ch.1)
through jack’s desire for power
finish the quote: ‘he snatched his knife out of the sheath…
….and slammed it into a tree trunk’
finish the quote: ‘he looked round…
…fiercely, daring them to contradict’
finish the quote: ‘because i’m…
…chapter chorister and head boy’
finish the quote: ‘but if there was a snake…
…we’d hunt it and kill it’
‘but if there was a snake we’d hunt it and kill it’
- manipulates boys’ fear and uses it to his advantage and to increase his power and the need for him
- political allegory
- similar to that of world war 2- hitler - created fear of communism
throughout the course of the novel, power is presented…
(ch.9)
through simon’s interaction with the lord of the flies
finish the quote: ‘simon’s mouth laboured…
…brought forth audible words’
finish the quote: ‘fancy thinking the…
…Beast was something you could hunt and kill!’
‘simon’s mouth laboured, brought forth audible words’
‘fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!’
- simon ‘laboured’ -> extreme difficulty in trying to argue with the lord of the flies, emphasising the struggle in resisting the beast and the beast’s power over mankind
- simon ‘laboured, brought forth’ -> great effort, however ‘fancy’ belittles him with a sarcastic, patronising tone -> showcasing how mankind is powerless against evil
throughout the course of the novel, power is presented…
(ch.8)
through roger
finish the quote: ‘roger ran around the heap…
…prodding with his spear whenever pigflesh appeared’
finish the quote: ‘roger found a lodgement for his point…
…and began to push till he was leaning with his whole weight’
throughout the course of the novel, power is presented…
through conflict
finish the quotation: ‘the supreme sting…
…the casual, bitter word’
finish the quotation: ‘ralph heard…
…the mockery and hated jack’
‘the supreme sting, the casual, bitter word’
‘ralph heard the mockery and hated jack’
- power struggle
- none of them want to look like cowards
- fighting for power
throughout the end of the novel, power is presented…
(ch.9)
as a dictatorship
finish the quote: ‘jack, painted…
…and garlanded, sat there like an idol’
‘jack, painted and garlanded, sat there like an idol’
- as if he is a king on a throne
- worshipping him
finish the quote: ‘there were piles of meat…
…on green leaves near him, and fruit, and coconut shells full of drink’
finish the quote: ‘jack stood up…
…and waved his spear’
finish the quote: ‘give me a drink’
- imperative
- abusing power
‘there were piles of meat on green leaves near him, and fruit, and coconut shells full of drink’
- ordering the boys around
- treated like a king
- abusing his power
- promises food, fun and protection from the beast to get them to join his tribe -> like hitler -> took advantage of post-depression conditions and promised ‘work and bread’
throughout the end of the novel, power is presented..
(ch.11)
through violence
finish the quote : ‘roger took up a…
…small stone and flung it….. aiming to miss’
finish the quote: ‘sam only just kept his…
…footing. some source of power began to pulse in roger’s body’
finish the quote: ‘jack made a rush…
…and stabbed at ralph’s chest with his spear’
finish the quote: ‘his one hand still…
…on the lever’
finish the quote: ‘below him, ralph was a shock of hair…
…and piggy a bag of fat’
finish the quote: ‘the conch exploded…
…into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist’
‘the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist’
- ralph’s power lost
- conch was one of the main reasons he was elected
- now it is broken
- end of democracy + into dictatorship
