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LOTF quotes in themes - Coggle Diagram
LOTF quotes in themes
Civilisation vs Savagery
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C1 - "Unbearable blood" - at this stage they cannot bear to kill a sow. Still a sense of civilisation. Hesitant to kill, makes them “laugh ashamedly”. CONTRAST to later
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Mulberry guy missing - Loss of society already, Ralph’s ineffective leadership beginning to show + Jack’s totalitarian leadership starts to dominate. These small cracks in society lead to savagery
C4 - turning point - Chapter called "Chapter Four: Painted faces and long hair" descending into savagery
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Good VS Evil
The island
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It is the boys that bring about destruction to the island- Emphasised in C1, with the boys throwing rocks highlighting their destructive nature(theme of war/militarism)
impact of the plane on the ground is a "long scar smashed into the jungle" - impact the boys have on an otherwise idyllic island- allusion to Garden of Eden - God has created an idyllic Garden of Eden sinned by mankind that ruins it.
The foil characters Simon and Roger actually introduced in C1 as similar characters to highlight how two characters that start the same can take diff trajectories (Roger diverges into cruelty VS Simon diverges into compassion)- they are influenced in diff ways which affects if they descend to good/evil.
The pig's head is foil to Piggy and the conch (Pig head an embodiment of the beast on the island, the darkness that lives within all people)
Simon - "Double handfuls of ripe fruit". He's a lover of mankind, full of generosity, represents good. Common sense attitude by intuition
Social Class
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"Fair boy" = Ralph, "Fat boy" = Piggy
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Civilisation vs Savagery
"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- C2
Jack's arrogance as he suggests that he is superior to the rest in terms of his potential for succumbing to his inner evil.
Contrast to later when he becomes the savage leader- he does not recognise his savagery now, just like all the boys are blind to their own savagery on the island,therefore cannot see his potential for savagery in the story.
The boys are in danger of savagery because they do not believe that they are capable of it- Golding warns that if you don't recognise savagery within yourself then you are always in danger of succumbing to savagery.
Ralph changes this by saying that they will "have fun[...]like in a book...there was a clamour...Coral Island-"
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Golding specifically draws a parallel between Coral Island and the Island of lotf, as in Coral Island, the boys have a fun and adventurous experience and encounter evil, whereas Golding thought this was unrealistic and that the real danger would come from their own innate evil
As this is a victorean novel, Golding may be linking to a 19th century ideology suggesting British superiority.