Lord of The Flies Quotes

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  • Created on: 24-09-17 14:28
'Eyes that proclaimed no devil'
Ralph
1 of 27
'Full of pride in his contribution to the good of society'
Piggy
2 of 27
'What I mean is… maybe it’s only us'
Simon
3 of 27
'But they could never manage to do things sensibly if that meant acting independently'
Sam n Eric
4 of 27
'They knew very well why he hadn’t: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh: because of the unbearable blood'
Jack
5 of 27
'What intelligence had been shown was traceable to Piggy'
Piggy
6 of 27
'[Jack] tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up'
Jack
7 of 27
'The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering'
Ralph
8 of 27
'Piggy was an outsider, not only by accent, which did not matter, but by fat and assmar, and specs, and certain disinclination for manual labour'
Piggy
9 of 27
'Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy'
Ralph
10 of 27
'Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!... You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you?'
Lord of The Flies
11 of 27
'His laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling'
Jack
12 of 27
'The creature was a party of boys'
Narrator
13 of 27
'We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything'
Jack
14 of 27
'The heat seemed to increase till it became a threatening weight and the lagoon attacked them with a blinding effulgence'
Narrator
15 of 27
'The beast was harmless and horrible, and the news must reach the others as soon as possible'
Simon
16 of 27
'You're a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!'
Ralph
17 of 27
'Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life'
Narrator
18 of 27
'The conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist'
Narrator
19 of 27
'The mask was a thing of its own, behind which Jack had liberated from shame and self-consciousness'
Jack
20 of 27
'He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation'
Ralph
21 of 27
'Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood'
Narrator
22 of 27
'Simon felt a perilous necessity to speak; but to speak in assembly was a terrible thing to him'
Simon
23 of 27
'He was big enough to be a link with the adult world of authority'
Ralph
24 of 27
'He was intimidated by this uniformed superiority and the offhand authority in Merridew’s voice'
Narrator
25 of 27
'Which is better –to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?'
Piggy
26 of 27
'Demoniac figures with faces of white and red and green rushed out howling'
Narrator
27 of 27

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'Full of pride in his contribution to the good of society'

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Piggy

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'What I mean is… maybe it’s only us'

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Card 4

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'But they could never manage to do things sensibly if that meant acting independently'

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Card 5

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'They knew very well why he hadn’t: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh: because of the unbearable blood'

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