Savagery, evil and death Flashcards
extra quotes:
“something dark was fumbling along”
“He snatched the knife out of its sheath and slammed it into the tree trunk”
“we’re not savages; we’re english”
“Ralph blundered on savaging himself”
Finish and analyse the quote: “Then the creature _____________sand”
“Then the creature stepped from mirage onto clear sand”
-symbol of the beast
⁃a creature can also be an instrument of evil or distinct from a human
⁃“creature” shows how the choir will disrupt order on the island in place of wild living and savagery that goes against civilisation
⁃foreshadows deindividuation and anonymity
Finish and analyse the quote: “his hair was _____ beneath the _______”
“his hair was red beneath the black cap”
-colour imagery than has connotations with death and how Jack will encourage it
⁃contrast to Ralph’s introduction
⁃links to the devil therefore how Jack acts as a foothold to evil
Finish and analyse the quote: “Jack __________ and the ________over them”
“Jack slashed at one with his knife and the scent spilled over them”
-foreshadows blood spill
⁃opposite to Simon appreciating nature
⁃jack only appreciates what can be used for his own gain
Finish and analyse the quote: “If there was a snake ________”
“If there was a snake we’d hunt and kill it”
response to fear is violence which he uses to control and intimidate the other boys
Finish and analyse the quote: “kill the pig. ____________”
“kill the pig. cut her throat. spill her blood… the procession”
-killing of the pig may symbolise a funeral procession that was the death of their innocence and symbol of leaving civilisation behind
- only girl mentioned in the book and she is being treated harshly does this feed the notion of boys will be boys?
Finish and analyse the quote: “instead he ____________, then remembered his ____________grinning”
“instead he danced a step or two, then remembered his dignity and stood still grinning”
tribalistic imagery that is looked down upon but taken as a joke
⁃dignity associated with soldiers because they kill in a “civilised” manner
⁃contrast between the treatment of soldiers v tribes
The quote about Simon seeing the Beast in his mind:
“however Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick”
Finish and analyse the quote: “shove a _________that and if an __________-”
“shove a palm tree under that and if an enemy came- look”
-an enemy is ambiguous as it’s supposedly only the boys on the island so is Jack creating division
⁃Jack doesn’t see the beast as an enemy but as part of his game. he is its ally
Finish and analyse the quote: “Ralph too _____________flesh”
“Ralph too was fighting to get near, to get a handful of that brown vulnerable flesh”
-dehumanizing as they are first “hunting “something that is brown
⁃different ethnicities linked to savagery
Finish and analyse the quote: “a stain in the darkness, _____________”
“a stain in the darkness, a stain that was jack”
-ruination to the boys
⁃contributed to evil
⁃Jacks hands stain whatever he touches physically and both metaphorically just like how he stains the conch
Finish and analyse the quote: “gift for the _____”
“gift for the darkness”
-sacrifice to the beast
⁃good feeding into evil on the island
⁃alliance between the boys and darkness
⁃ralph, piggy and Simon later become gifts
Finish and analyse the quote: “Then there was a_______________ and the plunge and t______________”
“Then there was a vicious snarling in the mouth of the shelter and the plunge and thump of living things”
-deindividuation\
⁃animalistic
Finish and analyse the quote: “they understood only too well _____________________”
“they understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought”
-innocent life is of no value to them now
⁃masking
Finish and analyse the quote: “which is better to be _______________”
“which is better to be -a pack of painted n words like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is?”
-Ralph represents civilisation but he still contributed to the murder of Simon
⁃negativity towards tribes and connotating violence to black people
⁃“pack” traditional stereotypes of black people seen as inferior and animalistic
⁃wrong belief that civilisation can not xo exist with savagery and very
