Civilisation quotes LOTF Flashcards
Quote from beginning, savagery vs civilisation
There was the brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration, skill; and there was the world of longing and baffled commonsense.
Quote from beginning, Roger throwing stones
Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger’s
arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.
Quote from beginning, allusion to the civilised life they knew
We’ll have to have ‘Hands up’ like at school.”
Quote from beginning, use of irony
We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all,
we’re not savages.
Quote from beginning, attraction to savagery
the mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness.
Quote from middle, civilisation being supressed by dark desires of savagery
“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What’s grownups
going to think? Going off―hunting pigs―letting fires out―and now!”
A shadow fronted him tempestuously.
Quote from middle, survival of the fittest society
“He’s like Piggy. He says things like Piggy. He isn’t a proper chief.” Jack clutched the conch to him. “He’s a coward himself.”
Quote from middle, civilisation being worn down by the beast
“(To Ralph) this seemed the breaking up of sanity. Fear, beasts, no general agreement that the fire was all-important”
Quote from middle, choir boys into savages
Each of them wore the remains of
a black cap and ages ago they had stood in two demure rows and their
voices had been the song of angels.
Quote from end, savage society appealing to Ralph and Piggy
Piggy and Ralph, under the threat of the sky, found themselves eager to take a place in this demented but partly secure society
Quote from end, boys as animalistic
At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore.
Quote from end, symbol of clothes and image
This was a savage whose image refused to blend with that ancient
picture of a boy in shorts and shirt.
Quote from end, animalistic noise of savages
The sniggering of the savages became a loud derisive jeer.
The shivering, silvery, unreal laughter of the savages
