GOOD + EVIL Flashcards
Ralph blaming the island for the bad events.
“The island was getting worse and worse.”
Ralph and Piggy blaming Jack for the bad events.
“What makes things break up the way they do?”
“…I expect it’s him.”
“Jack?”
“…I suppose it must be.”
Ralph turns fear into hatred when going to look for the beast.
“…[he] fused his fear and loathing into hatred and stood up.”
Ralph admitting he was not scared when killing Simon.
“I wasn’t scared,” said Ralph slowly, “I don’t know what I was.”
The Beast’s speech to Simon.
“Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!… you knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go…”
Simon’s kindness to the littleuns (passing them fruit)
“Simon found for [the littleuns] food they could not reach…passed them back down to endless, outstretched hands.”
Simon talking about how the Beast is in all.
“Maybe […] there is a beast […] What I mean is…maybe it’s only us.”
Simon thinking about the beast.
“However Simon thought of the beast, there at once rose before his inward sight the picture of a human, at once heroic and sick.”
Jack’s attitude towards the beast.
“There aren’t any beasts to be afraid of on this island…serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry babies!”
Piggy’s attitude towards the beast.
“Life […] is scientific…I know there isn’t no beast…unless we get frightened of people.”
Description of the choir.
“…The darkness was not all shadow but mostly clothing. The creature was a group of boys.”
Where the parachutist came from.
“A sign came down from the world of grownups.”
Piggy not accepting responsibility for Simon’s death.
“It was an accident…he had no business crawling like that out of the dark.”
Simon’s inability of express his ideas about man’s evil.
“Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express man’s essential illness.”
Simon trying to tell everyone the truth about the Beast - the description of Simon stumbling out of the forest.
“A thing was crawling out of the forest. It came darkly, uncertainly…the Beast stumbled into the horseshoe…Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill.”
