Lord of Flies Quotes to learn Flashcards
(40 cards)
For a moment the boys were…
a closed circuit of sympathy with Piggy on the outside…
Something dark was fumbling along…
the darkness was not all shadow but mostly clothing
They knew very well why he hasn’t killed the piglet…
because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood
Piggy - “about the martyred…
expression of a parent”
Jack says -
“I agree with Ralph. We’ve got to have rules to obey them. After all…
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 says - “We’ll have rules…then when anyone breaks em” contrasts with :
“bollocks to the rules”
Jack -
became less a hunter than…
a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees
Jack:
He tries to convey the…
compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up
Jack - “If your hunting sometimes
you can feel as if you’re not hunting, but - being hunted, as if somethings behind you all the time in the jungle”
Jack and Ralph:
They walked along, two continents…
of experience and feeling, unable to communicate
about Roger: 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.
On Jack’s ‘mask’: …the mask was a thing on its own,
behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness.
Ralph’s thoughts: If faces where different when lit from above or below -
what was a face? What was anything?
Ralph says: Things are breaking up. I don’t understand why.
We began well;we were happy. And then –…Then people started getting frightened.
Piggy says: I know there isn’t no beast –not with claws and all that, I mean –but I know there isn’t no fear either.
Unless–…Unless we get frightened of people.
Simon on The Beast: “What I mean is… Maybe it’s only us…. What’s the dirtiest thing there is?”…
Simon became inarticulate in his efforts to express mankind’s essential illness.
The world, that understandable and lawful word, was slipping away.
Once there was this and that; and now –and the ship had gone.
Ralph says: Ifonly they could send
us something grown-up… a sign or something
The bright morning was full of threats and the circle began to change.
It faced out, rather than in and the spears of sharpened wood were like a fence. Jack called them back to the centre.
However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before
his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick.
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.
About Jack: A stain in the darkness, a stain that was Jack,
detached itself and began to draw away.
Jack on The Beast: The beast is a hunter…
we couldn’t kill it.
Jack on leaving the group: I’m not going to play any longer.
Not with you.
