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Savagery Flashcards

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initally, savagery is presented…

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through violence

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2
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finish the quote: ‘jack drew his knife…

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…again with a flourish’

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‘jack drew his knife again with a flourish’

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  • sense of bloodlust growing in jack
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4
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finish the quote: ‘hurled the spear…

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…with all his strength’

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‘hurled the spear with all his strength’

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-ch.3
- no longer held back by the rules of his old life which stopped him from killing the piglet in ch.1
- becoming more savage

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initally, savagery is presented…

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through jack

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finish the quote: ‘dog-like, uncomfortably…

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…on all fours yet unheeding his discomfort’

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8
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finish the quote: ‘became less hunter than…

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…a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees’

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9
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initally, savagery is presented…

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through appearance

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10
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finish the quote: ‘except for a pair of…

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…tattered shorts held by his knife-belt he was naked’

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‘except for a pair of tattered shorts held by his knife-belt he was naked’

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  • ditched his school uniform
  • losing his old public-schoolboy identity
  • ‘knife-belt’- belt is no longer part of uniform, but a tool to help him with his violent, destructive hunting
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initally, savagery is presented…

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as a game

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13
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finish the quote: ‘the rest joined in…

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…making pig-dying noises and shouting’

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finish the quote: ‘maurice pretended to be the…

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..pig and ran squealing to the center, and the hunters, circling still pretended to beat him’

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finish the quote: ‘kill the pig. cut…

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…her throat.bash her in’

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‘kill the pig. cut her throat. bash her in.’

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  • desire for violence
  • monosyllabic
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17
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throughout the course of the novel, savagery is presented…

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through ralph’s loss of authority

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18
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finish the quote: ‘exposure to the air…

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…had bleached the yellow and pink to near-white’

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‘exposure to the air had bleached the yellow and pink to near white’

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  • fading colour
  • symbolic of ralph’s fading power
  • loss of civilisation = descent into savagery
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finish the quote: ‘you’re breaking…

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…the rules!’

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start the quote: ….the boys fell silent or muttering’

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‘mutinously…

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22
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throughout the course of the novel, savagery is presented…

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through ralph being swept into bloodlust

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23
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finish the quote: ‘ralph entered…

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…into the play’

24
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finish the quote: ‘ralph, carried away…

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…by a sudden and thick excitement, grabbed eric’s spear and jabbed at robert with it’

25
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finish the quote: ‘ralph too, was…

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…fighting to get near’

26
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finish the quote: ‘to get a handful of that…

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…brown, vulnerable flesh’

27
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finish the quote: ‘the desire to…

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…squeeze and hunt was over-mastering’

28
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‘ralph entered into the play’
‘ralph, carried away by a sudden and thick excitement, grabbed eric’s spear and jabbed at robert with it’
‘ralph too, was fighting to get near’
‘to get a handful of that brown, vulnerable flesh’
‘the desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering’

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  • ralph’s involvement in the hunt and the re enactment is a further step towards savagery
  • ralph = meant to be the symbol of civilisation and democracy
  • a hint that jack’s violent leadership will soon replace ralph’s civilised morals
  • swept into savagery
29
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throughout the course of the novel, savagery is presented…

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through the slaughter of the pig

30
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finish the quote: ‘trailing roger’s spear…

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…behind it’

31
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finish the quote: ‘with two spears…

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…sticking in her fat flank’

32
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finish the quote: ‘wedded to her…

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…in lust’

33
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finish the quote: ‘began to push…

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…till he was leaning with his whole weight’

34
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finish the quote: ‘he giggled and flicked…

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…them while the boys laughed at his reeking palms’

35
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finish the quote: ‘the boys cried…

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…with laughter’

36
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throughout the end of the novel, savagery is presented…

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through simon’s death

37
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finish the quote: ‘at once the crowd…

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…surged after it’

38
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finish the quote: ‘leapt onto the beast….

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…, screamed, struck, bit, tore’

39
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finish the quote: ‘no movements…

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…but the tearing of teeth and claws’

40
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‘at once the crowd surged after it’
‘leapt onto the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore’
‘no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws’

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  • ‘crowd’ -> no longer individuals responsible for their own behaviour -> are a collective, a pack of animals driven by instinct
  • animalistic imagery - ‘bit,tore’ ‘teeth and claws’ -> no suggestion of humanity -> predatory associations, of savage animals ripping apart prey
41
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throughout the end of the novel, savagery is presented…

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through roger

42
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finish the quotation : ‘below him, ralph was…

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…a shock of hair and piggy a bag of fat’

43
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‘below him, ralph was a shock of hair and piggy a bag of fat’

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  • roger is a savage
  • effects of savagery : the loss of identity and humanity
44
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finish the quote: ‘roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment…

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…leaned all his weight on the lever’

45
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‘roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment leaned all his weight on the lever’

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  • turned into a cold-blooded killer
  • no longer governed by civilisation like in ch.4
  • psychological view -> freudian reading -> roger is governed by the id
  • lost ALL civilisation - roger + conch + piggy
46
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finish the quote: ‘the conch exploded…

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…into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist’

47
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finish the quote: ‘you don’t know roger…

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…he’s a terror’

48
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throughout the end of the novel, savagery is presented…
(ch.6)

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through setting : castle rock

49
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finish the quote: ‘shove a palm trunk…

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…under that and if an enemy came’

50
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finish the quote: ‘a hundred feet below them…

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…was the narrow causeway, then the stony ground, then the grass dotted with heads’

51
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finish the quote: ‘we can roll…

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…rocks’

52
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throughout the end of the novel, savagery is presented…
(ch.12)

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through the savages’ behaviours

52
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finish the quote: ‘the tribe was…

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…dancing’

53
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start the quote: …by beating on his open mouth’

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‘ululation…

54
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finish the quote: ‘like the cry…

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…of a flying bird’

55
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finish the quote: ‘he raise his spear…

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…snarled a little’

English Literature : Lord of the Flies (31 decks)

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