Themes

Question 1

Civilisation (voting)

Answer 1

‘The toy of voting was almost as pleasing as the conch’

Question 2

Civilisation (breaking down)

Answer 2

‘What are we? Humans? Animals? Or savages?’ - Piggy asking Ralph

Question 3

Civilisation (control)

Answer 3

‘Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law’ - Roger throwing the rocks

Question 4

Civilisation (rules)

Answer 4

‘Because the rules are the only thing we’ve got’

Question 5

Savagery (affect of mask/anonymity)

Answer 5

‘He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling’ - Jack wearing the facepaint

Question 6

Savagery (hunting)

Answer 6

‘Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood’

Question 7

Savagery (also relating to the beast, and the beast just being them)

Answer 7

‘There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws’

Question 8

Savagery (Inner desire for violence)

Answer 8

‘The desire to squeeze and hurt was overmastering

Question 9

Savagery (descent into savagery)

Answer 9

Change in address terms to ‘anonymous savages’, ‘anonymous devils’

Question 10

Colonisation (Jack)

Answer 10

‘We’re not savages. We’re english; and the English are the best at everything. So we’ve got to do the right things’ - Jack

Question 11

Colonisation (Naval Officer)

Answer 11

‘I should have thought a pack of british boys… would have been able to put on a better show than that’

Question 12

Leadership (Jack)

Answer 12

‘Power lay in the brown swell of of his forearms; authority sat on his shoulders and chattered in his ear like an ape’ - Jack as chief

Question 13

Leadership (Ralph)

Answer 13

‘We must make smoke… we must make a fire’ Ralph initially being a good leader

Question 14

Leadership (cycle of bad leadership)

Answer 14

‘Irresponsible authority’, ‘tribe’ address term of ‘chief’

Question 15

Power (abuse of power Jack)

Answer 15

Jack, painted and garlanded, sat there like an idol’

Question 16

Power (rise of roger)

Answer 16

‘Roger edged past the Chief, only just avoiding pushing him with his shoulder’ - the cyclic nature of history

Question 17

Power (violence)

Answer 17

‘If there’s a beast, we’ll hunt it down! We’ll close in and beat and beat and beat-!’

Question 18

Violence (sow)

Answer 18

‘Sweat and noise and blood’ - killing of the sow

Question 19

Violence (Jack)

Answer 19

‘Drew his knife again with a flourish’ - flourish, like a performance

Question 20

Violence (tribe)

Answer 20

‘Tearing of teeth and claws’

Question 21

Fear (leader using fear to control)

Answer 21

‘Wearily obedient’ - The choir to Jack

Question 22

Fear (Piggy clear sightedness, being able to see that the beast isn’t real)

Answer 22

‘There is nothing to be afraid of, unless we start to fear other people’

Question 23

Fear (making up their own interpretations of beast, due to their fears)

Answer 23

‘There were eyes - Teeth - Claws’

Question 24

Fear (fear of unknown)

Answer 24

‘Soon the darkness was full of claws, full of the awful unknown and menace’

Question 25

Fear (perceived threat)

Answer 25

‘And then; the beast might try to come in. You remember how he crawled - ‘ abusing the perceived threat, manipulating their fear.

Question 26

Innocence (innocent fears, translated onto beast)

Answer 26

‘There were eyes - Teeth - Claws’

Question 27

Innocence (trust in adults and authority figures as omnipotent)

Answer 27

‘You’re chief Ralph, you remember everything’

Question 28

Innocense (imagery, natural symbol of innocense)

Answer 28

‘The sounds of the bright fantastic birds, the bee-sounds, even the crying of the gulls’ - aural imagery, natural beauty in Chapter 3, but when he comes back in Chapter 8, the glade is sullied with the ‘sow’s head’