Quotes Flashcards
Name 3 quotes from Simon
“Maybe there is a beast… Maybe it’s only us…”
“You knew didn’t you?”
Christ-like even in death
Name 4 quotes from Jack
“We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all we aren’t savages, we’re English”
“Bollocks to the rules”
“Kill the Beast! Cut it’s throat! Spill it’s blood”
“He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling”
“a stain in the darkness a stain that was Jack”
“Jack planned his new face”
Name quotes from Piggy and what he represents
His glasses represent the boys’ only hope of being rescued.
He represents civilisation.
“What are we? Humans? Animals? or Savages?”
“Acting like a crowd of kids”
Name quotes from Ralph
“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart. and the fall through the air of the true wise friend called Piggy”
“We’ll have to have hands up like at school”
“I’m chief, i’ll go don’t argue”
“The thing is - fear can’t hurt you more than a dream”
Important quotes from Ozymandius
“I met a traveller from an antique land”- detaches himself from poem to make it clear that this isn’t a direct attack on the British monarchy. He uses this poem to criticise King George III’s arrogance in his power.
“Sneer of cold command” - he has lost his power; cold = dead. Hard ‘c’ sound reflects harsh nature of ozymandius.
“lone and level lands stretch far away”
Important quotes from Remains
“probably armed, possibly not” - repetition and cyclical structure
“somebody else and somebody else”
“his bloody life in my bloody hands”
“drink and drugs won’t flush him out”
“dug in behind enemy lines” - can’t leave war
Important quotes from tissue
“may fly our lives like paper kites”
“find a way to trace a grand design with living tissue”
“Maps too. The sun shines through their borderlines”
Important quotes from The Emigree
“There once was a country”
Use of child-like language to show how she doesn’t accept that this place has become full of tyrants and violence.
“it make be sick with tyrants, but i am branded by an impression of sunlight”
“I can’t get it off of my tongue. It tastes of sunlight”
Quotes from exposure
“merciless iced east winds that knive us…” - assonance of ‘i’ slows down and mimics the exposure of the soldiers”
“dawn massing in the east her melancholy army” - pathetic fallacy shows mens feelings.
“Attacks more in ranks and ranks on shivering ranks of grey”- repetition.
