Themes and Symbolism in William Golding's Lord of the Flies
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“It was simply what seemed sensible for me to
write after the war when everyone was
thanking God they weren’t Nazis. I’d seen
enough to realize that every single one of us
could be Nazis.”
--William Golding
Golding’s Message
“The theme is an attempt to trace the defects of
society back to the defects of human nature.”
--William Golding
Themes for Annotation:
good vs. evil (inherent)
loss of innocence
mob mentality
nature vs. nurture
identity
survival of the fittest
“inner” beast
society as civilizing factor
Things fall apart
Fear of the unknown (The Beast Within)
Allusions
•
Use of the names Ralph and Jack as the main
characters from
The Coral Island
.
•
Simon from the Bible “Simon called Peter”,
Peter was the other boy’s name in
The
Coral
Island
•
Mention of
Coral Island
and
Treasure
Island
•
Numerous biblical allusions throughout
In Golding’s day a popular boys
adventure story was…
The Coral Island
The Coral Island
A story most boys and
A story most boys and
adults in England
adults in England
would be familiar
would be familiar
with.
with.
The Coral Island
•
Written in 1858
Written in 1858
•
A group of boys gets stranded on a
A group of boys gets stranded on a
deserted, tropical island
deserted, tropical island
•
The major characters are
The major characters are
Jack
,
,
Ralph
, and
, and
Peterkin
•
It’s an adventure story with a
It’s an adventure story with a
happy ending
happy ending
•
Other examples of children ruling
Other examples of children ruling
without adults?
without adults?
Golding’s Literary Technique
•
Heavy use of symbolism
•
Irony
•
Realism
•
Abundant imagery and sensory detail
•
Figurative Language
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Symbols
•
Scar
•
Conch
•
Specs
•
Snake
•
Pig
•
Fire
•
Huts
•
The Beast (imaginary?)
•
Lord of the Flies
•
Littleuns
Notes on
Lord of the Flies
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The Characters
1.
Ralph – civilization
Good-natured, fair, uses common sense
2.
Jack – savagery
Uses fear and threats to control the boys
3.
Simon – spirituality
Most spiritual character, not afraid to go
alone into the jungle, understands the
reality of the “beast”
Notes on
Lord of the Flies
•
The Characters
4. Piggy – wisdom; order; technology; vision
–
The most intelligent on the island, outcast,
outsider, target
5. Roger – “Spear”
•
the cruelest character, uses brute force at
whim, represents the worst in people when
there is no society to keep people in check
Notes on
Lord of the Flies
•
For Consideration:
Simon as a “Christ figure”:
Simon goes alone into the jungle
and confronts evil. Simon feeds,
prophesizes, withdraws, fasts, is
tormented
Notes on
Lord of the Flies
•
For Consideration:
“Lord of the Flies” – A literal
translation of “Beelzebub,” a Hebrew
name for the devil. The “Lord of the
Flies” represents the incarnation of
evil itself.
Notes on
Lord of the Flie
s
•
For Consideration:
Natural Goodness of Man Theory:
Left to themselves, humans would
live good lives, and it is the influence
of civilization that corrupts people.
Notes on
Lord of the Flies
•
For Consideration:
Golding has said that
Lord of the Flies
is “an attempt to trace the defects of
society back to the defects of human
nature.” He acknowledges evil as a
force that lurks within every person.
Days One and Two
Group Work: Study guides and
Secondary Sources
Class discussion on findings:
* Golding’s inspirations?
* Group discussion Qs
*Vocab
* Articles
Chapter 1: The Sound of the Shell
Symbolism of shedding clothes? Namelessness?
Scar
Ralph “…stood on his head” (10)
Page 11-realistic?
How are they still children?
A lot of talk of shadows
Made up words
Sam and Eric (18)
Jack and the Choir (19, 22)
Kids are horrible (20, 23)
Ralph as leader. Why? (21)
Simon and fainting (22, 23)
Why no girls? Why only 12 and under?
Chapter 1 Quotes (Do you guys have any?)
“No grownups” (Ralph 8)
“As he received the assurance of something purposeful
being done…” (3P 17)
“There’s no man with a trumpet. Only me”
(Ralph 19)
“He hovered between the two courses of apology or
further insult” (3P 23)
“Ralph, faced by the task of translating ll this into an
explanation, stood on his head…”(3P 23-24)
“This belongs to us” (Ralph 27)
“…peacock water…”(3P 27)
“The pause was only long enough…” (3P 29)
All of Golding’s novel takes
place on the remote tropical
island.
Chapter 2: Fire on the Mountain
Democracy
The Beastie in the Dark
Would you want to be rescued?
Fire and inability to light it, keep it lit
Simon
What’s up with the conch already?
Trying to maintain time and order (40)
Thoughts on Piggy?
How many little ‘uns are there?
Mulberry kid?
Chapter Two Quotes
(Do you guys have any?)
“But I tell you there isn’t a beast!” (Ralph 34)
“After all, we’re not savages. We’re English…” (Jack 40)
“One patch touched a tree trunk and scrambled up like
a bright squirrel” (3P 41).
“Piggy glanced nervously
into hell
and cradled the
conch” (3P 41)
“Snakes! Snakes! Look at the snakes!” (Boys 43)
Chapter 3: Huts on the Beach
Time has gone by
Tension builds
Simon as Jesus?
Hunters or hunted?
Is this chapter realistic?
The Fire
Candle buds
C3 Quotes
(Do you guys have any?)
“-the promise of meat.” (O3 45)
“They talk and scream. The littleuns. Even some of the
others. As if-” (R 47) As if what?
“But we want meat!” (J 49)
“He wanted to explain how people were never quite
what you thought they were” (O3 50)
“They walked along, two continents of experience and
feeling, unable to communicate” (O3 50)
“…beef sounds…” (O3 52)
Chapter 4: Painted Faces and Long Hair
Percival, Johnny, Henry, and the littleuns
Roger and Maurice
Sadism (schadenfreude)
Masks
Piggy is a tacit outsider (59)
Piggy’s specs
The fire and the hunt
Where is the Beast?
Savagery vs. Civilization
C4 Quotes (Do you guys have any?)
“There were creatures that lived in this last fling of the
sea, tiny transparencies that came questing in…” (O3
55)
“Roger’s arm was conditioned by a civilization that
knew nothing of him and was in ruins” (O3 56)
“The fire was dead” (O3 60)
“There was a ship” (R 64)
“
Kill the Pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood
” (Hunters
62)
“You should have seen the blood!” (J 64)
“Passions beat about Simon on the mountain top with
broken wings” (O3 65)
Chapter 5: Beast from Water
Loss of Innocence
Springy logs (70)
Politics (71)
Dirty
Things fall apart
Ralph sadly wiser (83)
No beast “Cos things wouldn’t make
sense” Houses an’…” (P 83)
Irony of the kids’ faith in grownups
C5 Quotes
(Do you guys have any?)
“He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this
life…waking life was spent watching one’s feet” (O3P 69)
“-what was a face” (O3P 70)
“Things are breaking up” (R 74)
“There aren’t any beasts to be afraid of on this island” (J 75)
“Percival Wemys Madison would not shut up” (O3P 78)
The sea an “…unknown indigo of infinite possibility” (O3P 79)
“…Jack says you can be frightened because people are frightened
anyway… (M 79)
“Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s
essential illness” (O3P 80)
“Bollocks to the rules” (J 83)
“Fat lot of good we are. Three blind mice.” (R 84)
Chapter 6: Beast from Air
The sign from the world of grown ups?
True unadulterated fear? Samneric. Are
they “lying”?
Fear + hunting spears (or _____)
Things fall apart
Piggy!
Who can relate to Simon? (bottom of 93)
C6 Quotes (Do you guys have any?)
“Soon the darkness was full of claws, full of the
awful and unknown menace” (O3P 89)
“The beast followed us-” (SE 90)
One of my faves:
“However Simon thought of
the beast, there rose before his inward sight the
picture of a human at once heroic and sick”
(O3P 93)
And: “Soon, in a matter of centuries…” (O3P 95)
Halfway Pernt
On board:
Individual: You’re stranded on a
beautiful island. No adults. Will
you make it? What have you got to
bring to the table? Is this going to
be paradise? How are your flaws
revealed?
On board:
Group: You’re stranded together
on a beautiful island. No adults.
Who will make it? Who will not?
Will this be paradise? How are your
flaws revealed?
Chapter 7: Shadows and Tall Trees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gbmRSDTU0c
Ra
lph matures. Is self conscious
Simon
Ralph reminisces (beautiful realism
102)
Ralph likes hunting
Berengaria
Sadism and Bacchanalia
Savagery and Civilization(ish) and the
male ego
C7 Quotes
(Do you guys have any?)
“Not one of them was an obvious suspect for a shower,
and yet-” (O3P 99)
“You’ll
get back alright” (S 101)
“…there were droppings that steamed. Jack bent down
to them as though he loved them” (O3P 101)
“Use a littleun” (J 104)
“Ralph looked back at Jack, seeing him, infuriatingly, for
the first time” (O3P 107)
“Why do you hate me?” (R 107)
“A stain in the darkness, a stain that was Jack…” (O3P
109)
“…the darkness and desperate enterprise gave the
night a kind of dentist's chair unreality” (O3P 111)
Chapter 8: Gift for the Darkness
Who’s got the conch? Clever power
shift. Almost.
Piggy happy.
Pure. Bacchanalia.
Roger.
The Beast. The Lord of the Flies.
Civilization is struggling
Simon
C8 Quotes (Do you guys have any?)
“The beast had teeth,” said Ralph, “and big black eyes.”
“So we can’t have a signal fire. . . We’re beaten.”
“Talk,” said Ralph bitterly, “talk, talk, talk.”
“He laid the conch with great care in the grass at his feet. The
humiliating tears were running from the corner of each eye”
(O3)
This is sad: “I’m not going to play any longer. Not with you.”
(J)
This is funny: Piggy was so full of delight and expanding liberty
in Jack’s departure, so full of pride in his contribution to the
good of society, that he helped to fetch wood. (O3)
“He’s cracked.” (P)
“Each of them wore the remains of a black cap and ages ago they had
stood in two demure rows and their voices had been the song of
angels” (O3)
“
They agreed passionately out of the depths of their
tormented private lives” (O3)
“The pigs lay, bloated bags of fat, sensuously enjoying the
shadows under the trees” (O3)
“…and the hunters followed, wedded to her in lust, excited by
the long chase and the dropped blood” (O3)
“The butterflies still danced,…” (O3)
“Gorged, they alighted by his runnels of sweat and drank.
They tickled under his nostrils and played leapfrog on his
thighs. They were black and iridescent green and without
number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on
his stick and grinned.” (O3)
“Can’t they see? Can’t they understand? Without the
smoke signal we’ll die here? Look at that!” (P)
“No, not it. . . I mean. . . what makes things break up
like they do?” (R)
“Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could
hunt and kill!” said the head. (LOF)
Chapter 9: A View to a Death
The Bacchae
How is first paragraph foreshadowing?
Simon as Jesus?
Flies
Storm brewing
Mob mentality
Other themes?
C9 Quotes (Do you guys have any?)
“…preferring the pig’s high flavor” (O3P 132)
“The beast was harmless and horrible…” (O3P 134)
“Jack…sat there like an idol” (O3P 135)
Piggy was more was the center of social derision so that everyone felt
cheerful and normal” (O3P 136)
“Evening was come, not with calm beauty but with the threat of
violence” (O3P 136)
“…this demented but partly secure society” (O3P 138)
“Him! Him! (boys 137)
“The sticks fell and the mouth of the new circle crunched and
screamed” (O3P 137)
“…how small a beast it was…” (O3 137)
Chapter 10: The Shell and the
Glasses
Savages
Ralph is forgetting. They are al
forgetting.
Sam. And Eric.
Piggy’s glasses
C10 Quotes (Do you guys have any?)
“Nowadays he sometimes found that he saw more clearly if
he removed his glasses…(O3P141)
“Simon” (R 141)
“I’m frightened. Of us. (R)
“He’s going to beat Wilfred” (Robert 145)
“He ceased to work at his tooth and sat still, assimilating the
possibilities of irresponsible authority” (O3P145)
“Ralph settled himself for his nightly game of supposing…”
(O3P 150)
“The attraction of wildness was gone” (150)
“Desperately, Ralph prayed that the beast would prefer
littleuns” (O3P 151)
“I got mixed up with myself in a corner” (Sam 152)
Chapter 11: Castle Rock
Can’t get the fire lit
Piggy’s speech (156)
Roger…“The hangman’s horror
clung round him.” (165)
Poor Samneric
C 11 Quotes (Do you guys have any?)
“…Piggy sat expressionless behind the luminous wall of his
myopia” (O3P 154)
“Are we savages or what?” (R 155)
“What’s grownups goin’ to think?” (P 155)
Piggy’s “…passionate willingness to carry the conch against all
odds” (156)
“They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that
the concealing paint brought” (O3P 157)
“Jack, identifiable by personality and red hair…” (160)
“The shivering, silvery, unreal laughter of the savages…”
“Samneric protested out of the heart of civilization”
“Below him, Ralph was a shock of hair and Piggy was a bag of
fat” (O3P)
“Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things
up?” (P)
“Roger advanced upon them as one wielding a nameless
authority”
Chapter 12: Cry of the Hunters
You tell me.
Notes on
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies in Pop Culture
•
In
Hook
, Robin Williams compares Lost Boys to savages
in LOTF
•
The Simpsons
episode “Das Bus” is a parody
•
http://www.simpsonsworld.com/video/448356931860
•
Inspiration for the anime series
Infinite Ryvius
•
Mel Gibson’s 2006 movie
Apocalypto
has a similar
ending.
•
T.V. shows
Survivor
and
Lost
are said to have been
inspired from LOTF
•
2006 movie
Unaccompanied Minors
makes reference
to LOTF
Popular Culture Cont.
•
Stephen King uses the name “Castle Rock” (from the
novel) as the name of a town in his books. He also
makes reference to LOTF in the novels
The Girl Who
Loved Tom Gordon
,
Cujo
and
Hearts in Atlantis
•
Orson Scott Card makes reference in his novel,
Ender’s Shadow
.
•
Hook
The Offspring
“You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid”
•
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjW4_OlhKf
o
Clever alibis
Lord of the flies
Hit ‘em right between the eyes
Hit ‘em right between the eyes
When you walk away
Nothing more to say
See the lightning in your eyes
See ‘em running for their lives
What
Seinfeld
In the Seinfeld stand-up comedy session prior to a
show, Jerry makes the observation: "Any day you
had gym class was a weird school day. It started off
normal. You had English, Social Studies, Geometry,
then suddenly you’re in Lord of the Flies for 40
minutes. You’re hanging from a rope, you have
hardly any clothes on, teachers are yelling at you,
kids are throwing dodge balls at you and snapping
towels - you're trying to survive. And then it's
Science, Language, and History. Now that is a weird
day."
Group Work: Philosophy
1. Rousseau’s Social Contract and
Noble Savage
2. Hobbes’ Inherent Evilness
Debate
Source of Inspiration to Musicians
•
Musicians Iron Maiden, Gatsby’s American
Dream, Nine Inch Nails, Tori Amos, A.F.I., and
Danielle Dax have all recorded songs about
the novel.
Titles such as:
“Where the Flies Are”
“Touch Piggy’s Eyes”
“Lord of the Flies”
“Piggy
“Fable”
The End
“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."
- William Golding,
Lord of the Flies
, Chapter 12
FILM CLIP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvmi3oZ_vH8
William Golding's novel, Lord of the Flies, delves into the inherent struggle between good and evil, the loss of innocence, and the impact of societal constructs on human nature. Through symbolism, allusions, and literary techniques, Golding paints a vivid picture of a group of boys stranded on an island, revealing the complexities of human behavior and the fragility of civilization. The narrative explores themes of identity, survival, and the darkness within, providing insights into the depths of human nature.
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On Writing Lord of the Flies It was simply what seemed sensible for me to write after the war when everyone was thanking God they weren t Nazis. I d seen enough to realize that every single one of us could be Nazis. --William Golding
Goldings Message The theme is an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature. --William Golding
Themes for Annotation: good vs. evil (inherent) loss of innocence mob mentality nature vs. nurture identity survival of the fittest inner beast society as civilizing factor Things fall apart Fear of the unknown (The Beast Within)
Allusions Use of the names Ralph and Jack as the main characters from The Coral Island. Simon from the Bible Simon called Peter , Peter was the other boy s name in The Coral Island Mention of Coral Island and Treasure Island Numerous biblical allusions throughout
In Goldings day a popular boys adventure story was The Coral Island A story most boys and adults in England would be familiar with.
The Coral Island Written in 1858 A group of boys gets stranded on a deserted, tropical island The major characters are Jack, Ralph, and Peterkin It s an adventure story with a happy ending Other examples of children ruling without adults?
Goldings Literary Technique Heavy use of symbolism Irony Realism Abundant imagery and sensory detail Figurative Language Simile Metaphor Personification
Symbols Scar Conch Specs Snake Pig Fire Huts The Beast (imaginary?) Lord of the Flies Littleuns
Notes on Lord of the Flies The Characters 1. Ralph civilization Good-natured, fair, uses common sense 2. Jack savagery Uses fear and threats to control the boys 3. Simon spirituality Most spiritual character, not afraid to go alone into the jungle, understands the reality of the beast
Notes on Lord of the Flies The Characters 4. Piggy wisdom; order; technology; vision The most intelligent on the island, outcast, outsider, target 5. Roger Spear the cruelest character, uses brute force at whim, represents the worst in people when there is no society to keep people in check
Notes on Lord of the Flies For Consideration: Simon as a Christ figure : and confronts evil. Simon feeds, prophesizes, withdraws, fasts, is tormented Simon goes alone into the jungle
Notes on Lord of the Flies For Consideration: Lord of the Flies A literal translation of Beelzebub, a Hebrew name for the devil. The Lord of the Flies represents the incarnation of evil itself.
Notes on Lord of the Flies For Consideration: Natural Goodness of Man Theory: Left to themselves, humans would live good lives, and it is the influence of civilization that corrupts people.
Notes on Lord of the Flies For Consideration: Golding has said that Lord of the Flies is an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature. He acknowledges evil as a force that lurks within every person.
Days One and Two Group Work: Study guides and Secondary Sources Class discussion on findings: * Golding s inspirations? * Group discussion Qs *Vocab * Articles
Chapter 1: The Sound of the Shell Symbolism of shedding clothes? Namelessness? Scar Ralph stood on his head (10) Page 11-realistic? How are they still children? A lot of talk of shadows Made up words Sam and Eric (18) Jack and the Choir (19, 22) Kids are horrible (20, 23) Ralph as leader. Why? (21) Simon and fainting (22, 23) Why no girls? Why only 12 and under?
Chapter 1 Quotes (Do you guys have any?) No grownups (Ralph 8) As he received the assurance of something purposeful being done (3P 17) There s no man with a trumpet. Only me (Ralph 19) He hovered between the two courses of apology or further insult (3P 23) Ralph, faced by the task of translating ll this into an explanation, stood on his head (3P 23-24) This belongs to us (Ralph 27) peacock water (3P 27) The pause was only long enough (3P 29)
All of Goldings novel takes place on the remote tropical island.
Chapter 2: Fire on the Mountain Democracy The Beastie in the Dark Would you want to be rescued? Fire and inability to light it, keep it lit Simon What s up with the conch already? Trying to maintain time and order (40) Thoughts on Piggy? How many little uns are there? Mulberry kid?
Chapter Two Quotes (Do you guys have any?) But I tell you there isn t a beast! (Ralph 34) After all, we re not savages. We re English (Jack 40) One patch touched a tree trunk and scrambled up like a bright squirrel (3P 41). Piggy glanced nervously into hell and cradled the conch (3P 41) Snakes! Snakes! Look at the snakes! (Boys 43)
Chapter 3: Huts on the Beach Time has gone by Tension builds Simon as Jesus? Hunters or hunted? Is this chapter realistic? The Fire Candle buds
C3 Quotes (Do you guys have any?) -the promise of meat. (O3 45) They talk and scream. The littleuns. Even some of the others. As if- (R 47) As if what? But we want meat! (J 49) He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were (O3 50) They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate (O3 50) beef sounds (O3 52)
Chapter 4: Painted Faces and Long Hair Percival, Johnny, Henry, and the littleuns Roger and Maurice Sadism (schadenfreude) Masks Piggy is a tacit outsider (59) Piggy s specs The fire and the hunt Where is the Beast? Savagery vs. Civilization
C4 Quotes (Do you guys have any?) There were creatures that lived in this last fling of the sea, tiny transparencies that came questing in (O3 55) Roger s arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins (O3 56) The fire was dead (O3 60) There was a ship (R 64) Kill the Pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood (Hunters 62) You should have seen the blood! (J 64) Passions beat about Simon on the mountain top with broken wings (O3 65)
Loss of Innocence Springy logs (70) Politics (71) Dirty Things fall apart Ralph sadly wiser (83) No beast Cos things wouldn t make sense Houses an (P 83) Irony of the kids faith in grownups
C5 Quotes (Do you guys have any?) He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life waking life was spent watching one s feet (O3P 69) -what was a face (O3P 70) Things are breaking up (R 74) There aren t any beasts to be afraid of on this island (J 75) Percival Wemys Madison would not shut up (O3P 78) The sea an unknown indigo of infinite possibility (O3P 79) Jack says you can be frightened because people are frightened anyway (M 79) Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind s essential illness (O3P 80) Bollocks to the rules (J 83) Fat lot of good we are. Three blind mice. (R 84)
Chapter 6: Beast from Air The sign from the world of grown ups? True unadulterated fear? Samneric. Are they lying ? Fear + hunting spears (or _____) Things fall apart Piggy! Who can relate to Simon? (bottom of 93)
C6 Quotes (Do you guys have any?) Soon the darkness was full of claws, full of the awful and unknown menace (O3P 89) The beast followed us- (SE 90) One of my faves: However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick (O3P 93) And: Soon, in a matter of centuries (O3P 95)
On board: Individual: You re stranded on a beautiful island. No adults. Will you make it? What have you got to bring to the table? Is this going to be paradise? How are your flaws revealed?
On board: Group: You re stranded together on a beautiful island. No adults. Who will make it? Who will not? Will this be paradise? How are your flaws revealed?
Chapter 7: Shadows and Tall Trees https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gbmRSDTU0c Ralph matures. Is self conscious Simon Ralph reminisces (beautiful realism 102) Ralph likes hunting Berengaria Sadism and Bacchanalia Savagery and Civilization(ish) and the male ego
C7 Quotes (Do you guys have any?) Not one of them was an obvious suspect for a shower, and yet- (O3P 99) You ll get back alright (S 101) there were droppings that steamed. Jack bent down to them as though he loved them (O3P 101) Use a littleun (J 104) Ralph looked back at Jack, seeing him, infuriatingly, for the first time (O3P 107) Why do you hate me? (R 107) A stain in the darkness, a stain that was Jack (O3P 109) the darkness and desperate enterprise gave the night a kind of dentist's chair unreality (O3P 111)
Chapter 8: Gift for the Darkness Who s got the conch? Clever power shift. Almost. Piggy happy. Pure. Bacchanalia. Roger. The Beast. The Lord of the Flies. Civilization is struggling Simon
C8 Quotes (Do you guys have any?) The beast had teeth, said Ralph, and big black eyes. So we can t have a signal fire. . . We re beaten. Talk, said Ralph bitterly, talk, talk, talk. He laid the conch with great care in the grass at his feet. The humiliating tears were running from the corner of each eye (O3) This is sad: I m not going to play any longer. Not with you. (J) This is funny: Piggy was so full of delight and expanding liberty in Jack s departure, so full of pride in his contribution to the good of society, that he helped to fetch wood. (O3) He s cracked. (P)
Each of them wore the remains of a black cap and ages ago they had stood in two demure rows and their voices had been the song of angels (O3) They agreed passionately out of the depths of their tormented private lives (O3) The pigs lay, bloated bags of fat, sensuously enjoying the shadows under the trees (O3) and the hunters followed, wedded to her in lust, excited by the long chase and the dropped blood (O3) The butterflies still danced, (O3) Gorged, they alighted by his runnels of sweat and drank. They tickled under his nostrils and played leapfrog on his thighs. They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned. (O3)
Cant they see? Cant they understand? Without the smoke signal we ll die here? Look at that! (P) No, not it. . . I mean. . . what makes things break up like they do? (R) Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! said the head. (LOF)
Chapter 9: A View to a Death The Bacchae How is first paragraph foreshadowing? Simon as Jesus? Flies Storm brewing Mob mentality Other themes?
C9 Quotes (Do you guys have any?) preferring the pig s high flavor (O3P 132) The beast was harmless and horrible (O3P 134) Jack sat there like an idol (O3P 135) Piggy was more was the center of social derision so that everyone felt cheerful and normal (O3P 136) Evening was come, not with calm beauty but with the threat of violence (O3P 136) this demented but partly secure society (O3P 138) Him! Him! (boys 137) The sticks fell and the mouth of the new circle crunched and screamed (O3P 137) how small a beast it was (O3 137)
Chapter 10: The Shell and the Glasses Savages Ralph is forgetting. They are al forgetting. Sam. And Eric. Piggy s glasses
C10 Quotes (Do you guys have any?) Nowadays he sometimes found that he saw more clearly if he removed his glasses (O3P141) Simon (R 141) I m frightened. Of us. (R) He s going to beat Wilfred (Robert 145) He ceased to work at his tooth and sat still, assimilating the possibilities of irresponsible authority (O3P145) Ralph settled himself for his nightly game of supposing (O3P 150) The attraction of wildness was gone (150) Desperately, Ralph prayed that the beast would prefer littleuns (O3P 151) I got mixed up with myself in a corner (Sam 152)
Chapter 11: Castle Rock Can t get the fire lit Piggy s speech (156) Roger The hangman s horror clung round him. (165) Poor Samneric
C 11 Quotes (Do you guys have any?) Piggy sat expressionless behind the luminous wall of his myopia (O3P 154) Are we savages or what? (R 155) What s grownups goin to think? (P 155) Piggy s passionate willingness to carry the conch against all odds (156) They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought (O3P 157) Jack, identifiable by personality and red hair (160) The shivering, silvery, unreal laughter of the savages Samneric protested out of the heart of civilization Below him, Ralph was a shock of hair and Piggy was a bag of fat (O3P) Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up? (P) Roger advanced upon them as one wielding a nameless authority
Chapter 12: Cry of the Hunters You tell me.
Lord of the Flies in Pop Culture In Hook, Robin Williams compares Lost Boys to savages in LOTF The Simpsonsepisode Das Bus is a parody http://www.simpsonsworld.com/video/448356931860 Inspiration for the anime series Infinite Ryvius Mel Gibson s 2006 movie Apocalypto has a similar ending. T.V. shows Survivor and Lost are said to have been inspired from LOTF 2006 movie Unaccompanied Minors makes reference to LOTF
Popular Culture Cont. Stephen King uses the name Castle Rock (from the novel) as the name of a town in his books. He also makes reference to LOTF in the novels The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Cujo and Hearts in Atlantis Orson Scott Card makes reference in his novel, Ender s Shadow. Hook
