- To learn to analyse the whole novel in answer to a question
- To prepare an answer to a real exam question
Write as many different answers as you can into the following answer garden:
In what ways is "Lord of the Flies" terrifying?... at AnswerGarden.ch.
Task 2
Choose an answer (either yours or someone else's) then write a comment on this post in which you explain your choice and give a quotation from the novel (don't forget to include the page number).
Homework due on Monday:
"Lord of the Flies" is a terrifying novel. To what extent do you agree with this statement? What methods does Golding use to lead you to your view?
3 main quotes, 45 minutes. The mark scheme can be downloaded here (page 9). You can complete this task either in your book or on the blog.
Despire to kill - "Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!"
ReplyDelete"Come on! I'll creep up and stab---" P80
Delete"Viciously,with full intentio, he hurled he spear at Ralph"
Delete"DEVIL's PLAN "Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt and kill!" (page 177)
ReplyDeleteBible reference.
Exposure; "His face was half-hidden by hair and smut."
ReplyDelete'his face was vicious with humiliation'
DeleteDARKNESS
ReplyDelete"The opaque, mad look came into his eyes again"
Page 67
'but to the boys was a darkish figure'
DeleteSavage - " There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws"
ReplyDeleteFor this and Jake miller the page is 188
DeleteAnother quote is on page:14. "crouched down among the tangled foliage"
Delete'they were chanting'
DeleteFear - "...the darkness and desperate enterprise gave the night a kind of dentist’s chair unreal"
ReplyDelete"Ralph screamed, a scream of fright and anger and desperation" P245
DeleteTeeth - "There were no words, and no movements but the bearing of teeth and claws"
ReplyDeletebeast
ReplyDelete'Something dark was fumbling along....The creature was a party of boys, marching approximately in step in two parallel lines.'
"something like a great ape was sitting asleep" (page 152)
DeleteSetting "The silence of the forest was more opressive than the heat..."
ReplyDeletePage 62
'' pale beach and the stains spread, inch by inch.'' pg 189
Delete" The air here was dark too, and the creepers dropped their ropes like the rigging of foundered ships."
DeleteTrue human nuature
ReplyDelete" We have rules"
true human nature to impose rules and regulations on many things just so they can havce some order and a form a society; which diverts from these rules.
"I'm part of you?" The Lord Of The Flies to Simon - page 177
DeleteLord of the flies;
ReplyDeleteInnocence lost; The head remained there, dim-eyed, grinning faintly, blood blackening between the teeth." - Imagery
Tribal Dance- "Do our dance! Come on! Dance!" P 187
ReplyDelete-Welcomes the idea of savagery ( Jack says this).
Innocence To Experience: "And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy." page 248
ReplyDeleteWould that be Xanthe? xD Ha Ha
DeleteHellz yeah
DeleteAwesome! :D
DeleteInnocence to Experience; "Now the sea would suck down making cascades and waterfalls of retreating water, would sink past the rocks and plaster down the seaweed like shining hair, then, pausing, gather and rive with a roar,"
Deletesavegery- "He was happy and wore the the damp darkness of the forest like his old clothes."
ReplyDelete'the hunters took their spear, the cooks took spits and the rest clubs of fire wood'
DeleteBiblical/ Reference to Jesus
ReplyDelete"Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach, pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage,passed them back down to the endless,outstretched hands"
Page 71.
PIG!' i cut the pig's throat'
ReplyDeleteAnonymity
ReplyDelete"The chief was sitting there, naked to the waist, his face blocked out in white and red." - page 197.
Myth of the beast- "The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible."
ReplyDelete"Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!"
DeletePage 177
Anarchy - "Viciously, with full intention, he hurled his spear at Ralph" p223
ReplyDeleteLord of the Flies; "There was the head grinning amusedly in the strange daylight,"(pg170)
ReplyDeleteSavagery - "From beyond the platform came the shouting of the hunters" They've become "hunters" rather than normal boys.
ReplyDeleteNaaa you don't say xD
DeleteSavagery 'the sow fell and the hunters hurled themselves at her'
ReplyDeletePolitics: "Who thinks Ralph oughtn't to be chief?"
ReplyDeletePAGE 157
DeleteSADISM: ''At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore.'' pg 188
ReplyDeleteLosing sense of humanity
ReplyDelete“He touched Ralph’s bare shoulder and Ralph shuddered at the human contact.
PG194
p44
ReplyDelete"nobody knows we are here"
more realistgic apporach to things , he knows what his doing and wants to infrom others but they dont take him seriously.
the Lord of the Flies
ReplyDelete"This has gone quite far enough. My poor, misguided child, do you think you know better than I do?" page 178
"What are you doing out here alone? Aren't you afraid of me?"
DeletePage 177
Formation of Society- "Who'll join my tribe?" P186
ReplyDeleteSaid by Jack- Controlling and wanting to make a society of his own.
"Let's have a vote"...
Delete"Vote for chief" Pg 30
Desire to kill "Now he's seen you. He's making sure. A stick sharpened"
ReplyDeletepage 245
savagery - "The rock struck piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist. PAGE222"
ReplyDeleteManipulation 'the darkness of man's heart'
ReplyDeleteAnimal "then dog-like, uncomfortably on all fours yet unheeding his discomfort" PG61
ReplyDeleteThey also present animalistic qualities when they adapt to their habitat :
Delete"All three were masked in black and green."
The undiscovered and the unknown
ReplyDelete"On their left was an impenetrable tangle of creepers and trees." page 129
FEAR "Ralph screamed, a scream of fright and anger and desperation"
ReplyDeletePage 245
'they cried for their mothers'
Delete"The seconds lengthened. Ralph stared straight into the savage's eyes. Don't scream."
DeleteLonliness:
ReplyDelete'' Simon's dead body moved out towards the open sea.''
"Lying there in the darkness, he knew he was an outcast PAGE228"
DeleteThe Beast - “…there was a confusion in the darkness and the creature lifted its head, holding towards them a ruin of a face.”
ReplyDeleteWeakness - "But you can feel as if you're not hunintg, bue--being hunted; as if something's behind you all the time in the jungle." p67
ReplyDeletesetting ' scattered with deaying coconuts and palm saplings'
ReplyDeletedead airman/beast - "...the parachute filled and moved; the figure slid,rose to its feet,spun, swayed down through a vastness of wet air.."
ReplyDelete"Then the wind roared in the forest, there was confusion in the darkness and the creature lifted it's head, holding towards them the ruin of a face. PAGE153"
DeleteAlso, "I saw a thing bulge on the mountain." page 150
Deletesetting 'behind this was the darkness of the forest'
ReplyDeleteAdvanced Maturity; "here him! he's got the conch!"
ReplyDeletesetting 'open sea was DARK blue'
ReplyDeleteDarkness- "A thing was crawling out of the forest. It came darkly, uncertainly" P188
ReplyDeleteDarkness dropped on the island like an extinguisher ans soon the shelters were full of restlessness, under the remote stars" PG 74
Delete"A stain in the darkness, a styain thats was Jack, detached itself..."
DeleteTrue human nature/Sadism - "Jack made a 'rush' and stabbed at Ralph's chest with his spear"
ReplyDelete'rush' - Strong desire to kill, and has to do this quickly to avoid the feeling of guilt/remorse or before he changes his mind.
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ReplyDeleteDomination
ReplyDelete"See? They do what I want." [said Jack] page 220
''Power lay in the brown swell of his forearms: authority sat on his shoulder and chattered in his ear like an ape.'' pg 185
Delete"Ralph spoke first, crimson in th face"
DeletePage 52
Insanity:
ReplyDelete'' Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in!''
pg 188
Delete"Simon answered him in the same silent voice." p177
Deletesavagery- "There were no words , and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws."
ReplyDeleteFear; "msybe he means it's some sort of ghost," - mocking to mask fear.
ReplyDeleteevil 'came in the dark'
ReplyDeleteSAVAGERY!' we'd hunt it and kill it.'
ReplyDeleteBLOOD!- "Now it touched the first of the stains that seeped from the broken body" P190
ReplyDeletedeconstruction "LIfe became a race with the fire and the boys scattered through the upper forest"
ReplyDeletePage 53
Simon's brutal death - "There were no words, and no movement but the tearing of teeth and claws." - Page 188
ReplyDeleteInnate
ReplyDelete"You knew didn't you? I'm part of you?"
Page 177
Well done everybody! :)
ReplyDeleteYour next task is to pick someone else's comment (and quotation) and comment on it giving them another, different quotation about the same idea!
Naaaaaaaaaah, I'm good.. JK! :)
DeleteThe conch (or rather, what it symbolizes)
ReplyDelete"In colour, the shell was a deep cream, touched here and there with with fading pink." page 22
SAVAGERY! 'within the diamond haze of the beach something dark was fumbling along.'
ReplyDeleteManipulation - "The Chief snatched one of the few spears that were left and poked Sam in the ribs" Pge 224
ReplyDelete