Theme Flashcards
Point 1
Initially, the boys are presented as civilised, innocent and longing for structure
Point 2
Golding makes it clear that the boys are quickly becoming estranged from civilisation as their appearance & behaviour disintegrates
Point 3
Savage descent becomes irrevocable when murder Simon, who sees truth in ‘The Beast’ they fear.
Point 4
Folowing S’s brutal murder, savagery out of control
Point 5
Last chapter, Ralph isolated as savages “hunt to kill” him, allowing Golding to directly present his themes to the reader.
PEE 1
“Ought to have a meeting”
“Ever so valuable” 🐚 “called”
“Let’s have a vote”
PEE 2 part 1
“Shorts, shirts”
“A silver badge”
“Streaked with brown earth”
“Filthy”
PEE 2 part 2
“the smaller boys were known by the generic title of ‘littluns’”
(Ra) “put things straight”
(J) “the boy who controlled”
“Compulsion to track down and kill”
PEE 3 part 1
“Harmless and horrible; and the news much reach the others ASAP”
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“Like a single organism” “struck”
“Just the tearing of teeth and claws”
PEE 3 part 2
“Out to sea” 💁🏻 -> 🌊
“Strange moonbeam-bodied creatures” WHICH “busied themselves round [Simon’s] head”
PEE 4
“Show him the one thing he hasn’t got” 🐚
“Comfortable” 🦧
“To remember what Jack looks like” 🧐
“Green and black mask” 🧑🏻🎤
“Into a thousand white fragments” 🐚
PEE 5 part 1
“Roger sharpened a stick at both ends”
“Gift for the darkness” 🐷
“Inevitable” ☠️
PEE 5 part 2
“Wept for the end if innocence, the darkness of man’s heart and the fall throught the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy.”