Lord of the flies - Chapter 6 quotes

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Chapter 6 quotes - beast from air

Golding uses contrast at the beginning - "a sliver of moon" "the blue flowers" but actually it's a dead adult from the war crashing into the island.

Piggy wanted a sign from the adults that they weren't bad when actually he got a sign that they are becasue another adult has killed this one.

The boys completely misinterprete the beast  - they imagine it has claws and growls or hunts - however the BEAST IS actually a HUMAN - this is what Golding is trying to say through the boys. 

"'Conch! Conch!' shouted Jack, 'we don't need the conch any more'" - Jack is trying to destroy democracy through trying to get rid of the conch

"'Sit down' ... he licked his lips and remained standing" - Jack is now openly challenging Ralph - notice the escalation here. 

"Simon thought of the beast, there rose before him his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick" - it is heroic because it was fighting for it's country, but sick because it has done bad things.

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Chapter 6 quotes - beast from air

The boys find Castle Rock

  • Covered in "guano" (bird poo)
  • Becomes the place where Piggy dies - symbolic
  • Jack's base once he leaves Ralph/democracy

Ralph, Jack and Simon view Castle Rock in different ways

  • "'No fresh water'" - Ralph again wants practicality
  • "'This would make a wizard fort'" - Jack thinks of it as if it's going to be used or a battle - it gives him a lot of power like a CASTLE gives a king power
  • Simon loves the beauty of the place
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