Lord of the Flies_Themes
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- Created on: 11-04-17 12:27
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- Themes
- Savagery
- "Unless we get frightened of people"
- the Beast
- "snake-thing"
- "beastie"
- "there's nothing in it of course. Just a feeling. But you can feel as if you're not hunting, but - being hunted"
- "maybe it's only us"
- "What are we? Human? Or Animals? Or Savages"
- murder
- Piggy
- Simon
- anti-christ + Jesus
- development
- "unbearable blood"
- "We're not savages. We're English"
- "the madness came into his eyes again"
- "this seemed the breaking up of sanity"
- Society + Context
- Jack uses beasts to hide dictatorship
- Stalin + Communism
- "we'll have to have 'Hands up' like at school"
- "Ralph and Jack looked at each other while society paused about them"
- "Then, with the expression of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless ebullience of the children"
- "here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of old life"
- "That world, that understandable and lawful world was slipping away"
- Jack uses beasts to hide dictatorship
- Innocence
- all 12
- "I'm not going to play any longer"
- Symbolism
- the Beast
- adult world
- "Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!"
- Simon
- Jesus
- "as though he had spoken too loudly in church"
- "as if he were nailed to it"
- glasses
- intelligence
- "specs"
- logic
- "his specs - use them as burning glasses"
- the Beast
- Savagery
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