Lord Of The Flies - Quotes Flashcards
(59 cards)
Ch1: Piggy introduction
“They used to call me Piggy!”
Ch1: “The creature was…”
“The creature was a party of boys, marching…”
Ch1: “You’re no…”
“You’re no good on a job like this”
Ch2: Ralph POV after blowing the conch
“Ralph sat on a fallen trunk, his left side to the sun. On his right were most of the choir; on his left the larger boys who had not known each other before… before him small children squatted in the grass.”
Ch2: Jack, Rules, English
“We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.”
Ch2: Piggy, Fire, Sarcasm
“You got your small fire alright.”
Ch3: Simon, fruit, saviour
“Then, amid the roar of bees in the afternoon sunlight, Simon found for the fruit they could not reach… passed them down to the endless, outstretched hands.”
Ch3: Flowers, scent, island
“The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers… Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island”
Ch4: Invisible, taboo, old
“Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life.”
Ch4: Dance, animalistic
“He began to dance, and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling”
Ch4: Jack, paint, Simon
“I painted my face— I stole up. Now you eat—all of you—and I—“
Ch5: Piggy, thought, Ralph
“Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains. Ralph was a specialist in thought now, and could recognise thought in another.”
Ch5: Jack, littluns, belittlement
“Serves you right of something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!”
Ch5: Maurice, beast, ocean
“Daddy said they haven’t found all the animals in the sea yet.”
Ch5: Simon, insightful, degeneration
“Maybe there is a beast…maybe it’s only us.”
Ch5: Ralph, democracy, slipping
“The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.”
Ch6: Nightmares, dissociation, ponies
“Even the sounds of nightmare from other shelters no longer reached him, for he was back to where he came from, feeding the ponies with sugar over the garden wall”
Ch7: “You’ll get…”
“You’ll get back to where you came from”
Ch7: “Kill…”
“Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!”
Ch7: “the desire…”
“The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering”
Ch7: “We mustn’t let…”
“We’re mustn’t let anything happen to Piggy, must we?”
Ch7: “The only trouble was…”
“The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player”
Ch8: “he says things like…”
“He says things like Piggy. He isn’t a proper chief.”
Ch8: “Piggy was…”
“Piggy was… so full of pride in his contribution to the good of society, that he helped to fetch wood”
