Lord of the Flies_Themes

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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"
    • 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"

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