Theme Flashcards
This was a savage whose image refused to blend with that ancient picture of a boy in shorts and shirt.
The joys have become so savage that they are beyond recognition and redemption.
Clothes, worn away, stiff like his own with sweat, put on not for decorum or comfort but out of custom.
They still wear clothes purely because they are still civilised to an extent. They are accustomed to this tradition in society.
“I’m chief. I was chosen.” “Why should choosing make any difference?”
Jack represents an autocratic government, where power is taken. Ralph represents a democratic government, where power is given. Ralph is powerful only because he was elected.
“Just a game.” said Ralph uneasily.
Ralph is trying to convince himself that they are all innocent, civili children even if this is no longer true.
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.
Even Ralph wants to be savage, perhaps just because of its lure or because of mob mentality.
The hunters followed, wedded to her in lust, excited by the long chase and the dropped blood.
The boys have become increasingly savage, perhaps to the point of no return.
“We’d better keep on the right side of him, anyhow. You can’t tell what he might do.” The tribe considered this; and they were shaken, as if by a flow of wind. The chief saw the effect of his words and stood abruptly.
Jack is able to use the beast to control the group. Fear is able to strengthen his position as leader of the tribe.
Behind them on the grass the headless and paunched body of a sow lay where they had dropped it.
The boys aren’t even bothering to eat the meat any more. They are killing purely of the fun of it and to exert power over a helpless animal.
And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair and unwiped nose, 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.
Ralph is no longer a child; he has lost the idea that anyone is good or innocent, juxtaposition between the ugly and noble.
On the beach behind him was a cutter, her bows hauled up and held by two ratings. In the stern-sheets another rating held a sub-machine gun.
The boys are not really being rescued, just being sent to another place with scarier weapons. War is inescapable.
The breaking of the conch and the death of Piggy and Simon lay over the island like a vapour.
A change of atmosphere
The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell. A sick fear and rage swept him.
Ralph doesn’t want to admit the evil inside all of us.
