LORD OF THE FLIES QUOTES

"there was a mildness about his mouth, and eyes that proclaimed no devil", "fair hair"- no hidden depths, represents human civilisatio

"disliked perpetually flicking the tangled hair out of his eyes" - hair = savagery, Ralph disliked savagery

"cradling the conch" - cradling civilisation

"the desire to squeeze and hurt was overmastering", "I hit him [pig]"- even Ralph has savagery within

"Don't you understand, Piggy? The things we did-" - only one to accept what they did

"I'm chief. I'll go. Don't argue" - positive use of power, determined, brave

"Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness in a man's heart and the fall through the air of a true wise friend called Piggy" - Ralph has lost his innocence but has realised no one is innocent

"this was the voice of one who knew his own mind" - would not obey

"compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up" - primal desires

"Jack was bent double", "ape-like" - anthropomorphism

"the mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness" - removes whatever ties he had with civilisation and his old life

"I ought to be chief" - arrogant

"bloodthirsty snarling", "a hiss of breath" - anthropomorphism, away from civilised society

"we don't need the conch anymore" - refusing to follow the rules and civilisation

"cradling the conch"  - enjoys power and authority not the civilisation, opposite to Ralph

"use a littleun" - savage instincts, no morals

"******** to the rules!" - refusing to cooperate 

"he was shorter than the fair boy and very fat" - sets him apart from other boys straight away

"Piggy was an outsider", "the boys were a closed circuit of sympathy with Piggy on the outside", "Piggy... was an irrelevance"

"unless we get frightened of people" - realises people can be bad

"what intelligence has been shown was traceable to Piggy"

"You're acting like a crowd of kids"

"there was no Piggy to talk sense"

"batty", "queer", "funny", "cracked" - lack of vocabulary to describe him

"what's the dirtiest thing there is?" - unable to explain evil

"the beast was harmless and horrible" - he has been enlightened

"Simon became inarticulate in his efforts to express mankind's essential illness"

CHARACTER QUOTES

(Ralph, Jack, Piggy, Simon)