Civilization vs. Savagery
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- Created on: 07-04-14 22:14
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- Civilization vs. Savagery
- Loss of Innocence
- Biblical Parallels
- The Conch Shell
- Piggy’s Glasses
- The Signal Fire
- “we must make a fire”- civilization and organisation starts and there’s hope to be saved.
- it distinguishes along with their sanity
- “cos smokes a signal”- Ralph is determined to be saved
- “we can’t keep one fire going and they don’t care...i don’t sometimes” = emphasizes how Ralph doesn’t have any hope left - savagery.
- Rescue= destructionFire= paradox
- intention of humans to control nature by destroying it
- burns out of control= later it is no longer a priority to be saved
- pg 142 long quote of simon hallucinating- destruction inside the boys-original sin-sexual/passion-passion is destroying them
- the signal fire becomes a barometer of the boys’ connection to civilization
- fire burns low or goes out, we realize that the boys have lost sight
- "there's no signal now.Nothing to show"
- functions as a kind of measurement of the strength of the civilized instinct remaining on the island
- Ironically, at the end of the novel, a fire finally summons a ship to the island, but not the signal fire. Instead, it is the fire of savagery
- representation of commonsense and rescue from immorality
- When the signal fire can no longer be lit, because Jack stole Piggy’s specs that light it, its beacon of hope and knowledge is no longer present to guide Ralph
- When the fire burns stronger, it means that they are getting closer to society
- "The fire's only been out an hour or two. We can light up again-"
- "no smoke;no fire;no rescue"
- “we must make a fire”- civilization and organisation starts and there’s hope to be saved.
- The Beast
- The Lord of the Flies
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