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Lord of the Flies key characters (Jack ("Jack planned his new face...…
Lord of the Flies key characters
Jack
"Bollocks to the rules"
expletive, shocking for such a young boy to say that
shows how his innocense has gone
no longer the head boy who follows the rules
"inward Hiss"
Zoomorphism
descent into savagery
Aggressive
"ugly without sillyness"
contrast against the golden boy ralph
introducing the conflict
Adjective
"Jack planned his new face... he looked in astonishment, no longer at himself but as an awesome stranger."
imagery
he has reshaped his identity
disguised his previous "blushing" face
he is "liberated from shame and self consciousness" the traits of a normal human being
"[Jack] tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill what was swallowing him up"
personification
the urge to kill has taken him over
he is lost all his innocense
Ralph
"The fair boy"
adjective
introduces Ralph as balanced before they have even learned his name
golding wants us to focus on the types of people in society rather then individual characters
"im cheif. I'll go. don't argue"
short sentences
Ralphs natural leadership
military lexis
his dad is in the navy so he has been brought up with discipline
understands the rank system in the military
Ralph places himself in danger instead of anybody else underneath his protection
"the rules are the only thing we've got"
again links to the military with discipline
hyperbole
shows how their opinion of the island has changed on the island it has gone from a utopia to a distopia
"Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of mans heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy"
Tricolon
represents the true horrors of war
all the innocence has been lost in the world
the humanity has been lost, he didn't know the name of his best friend
Piggy
"Life is scientific"
Piggy, the most intelligent boy on the island rationalises the existence of the beast scientifically
the fear is irrational
they are just scared of themselves
"Piggy was an outsider not even by accent, which did not matter, but by fat and ass-mar, and specs and a certain disinclination for manual labour"
marginilisation
even though he is intelligent he is marginalised for being fat
his physical characteristics prevent him from thriving in an uncivilised world
"Which is better, to have rules and get on, or to hunt and kill"
Rhetorical Question
piggy is questioning there desent into savigery
comparing the leidership of Jack and Ralph
"Piggy fell forty feet... his head opened up and stuff came out"
simplistic language
when piggy is dead the scientific is gone and "stuff" represents that
fricative "f" shows the narrators anger
simon
"maybe there is a beast, maybe its only us"
repetition
a03 war experiense
he is smart
"simon found for them the fruit they could not reach"
religious imagery
simon is like jesus
he is helpful
"mankinds essential illness"
metaphor
golding thinks we are all evil
there is no cure
"kill the beast cut his throat spill his blood"
rule of 3
the use of "Him" shows they know who they are killing
ritulistic
"You'll get back alright"
repitition
short sentance
predicts ralph will survive
Roger
"threw to miss"
restricted by society
super ego
physical pleasure from it
"breathing quickly, his eyelids fluttering"
sadist
sosiopath
"carried death in his hands"
metaphor
after Piggys death he has a new level of power
Roger is a muderer
"you don't know Roger, he's a terror"
metaphor
people call children "little terrors"
embodies fear
"Sharpened a stick at both ends"
sibilance and repetition
he wants to kill ralph
full descent into savagery
Samneric
"They were twins and the eye was shocked and incredulous at such a cheery duplication. They breathed together, they grinned together, they were chunky and vital."
repitition
pronoun they
they are sheep like
"Samneric protested out of the heart of civilisation"
hyperbolic metaphor
a cry for help
they want civilisation back
"Sam touched a scratch on his forehead and then hurriedly took his hand away. Eric fingered his split lip. "Yes we were very tired" repeated Sam, "So we left early."
diffusion of resposibility
none of them want to admit it
reperesent mankind
the littleuns
"Use a littlun, said Jack, and everybody laughed"
jack wanted to kill one of the littluns
descent into savagery
thrrrwwwwp
im better then you ha
"Beasties"
the concerns of the Littluns in chapter 2.
the boy with the mulberry birth mark says there is a beastie
the fear is born because they are children
"Percival Wemys Madison. The vicarige, Harcourt St. Anthonys Hants, telephone, telephone, tele...
similer to the cry that ralph made at the end of the book
he is losing his identity
loss of hope