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Lord of the Flies
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Overview of Lord of the Flies, including Themes, Setting and Characters
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lord of the flies
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Lord of the Flies
Characters
Ralph
Leader
Chief
Takes Responsibility
Investigates the Beast
"Im Chief, I'll go"
Recognises the need for order
"We'll have to 'Hands Up', Like at school."
Elected as Leader
Appearance
"There was a mildness about his mouth and eyes that proclaimed no devil"
Contrast with the red and black appearance of Jack (The Devil)
Insensitive
Doesnt ask for Piggys name
Mocks Piggys Nickname
Tells others
Jack
Choir Boy
Private School
Violent
Becomes Obsessed with Hunting
Initially unable to kill a pig
Still Goverend by Morals and Civilized rules
Overcomes his civilized ways by wearing warpaint
Gives into his own to his desire to kill (bloodlust)
'He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill what was swollowing him up'
Piggy
Physically weak
Overweight
Asthma
Spectacles
Needed them since he was 3
Seen as a Weakness to Jack
Spectacles
A symbol of Intelligence
Science + Intelligence = Progress
Theres no fire without the Glasses
Death
leaves Ralph completely alone
Represents Law and Order
In the Adult world
Working Class
Looked down on by the rest of the boys
Simon
Moral
The rest of the boys act imorally because there are no adults
Even Ralph and Piggy take part in the hunt
Beleives in the natural value of morality
Kind to the youngens
Jesus like
Weak
Feints at beginning
Hallucinates at the Lord of the Flies
First to figure that the beast is the boys imagination
Roger
Sadistic
Takes pleasure from inflicting Pain
Cruel
Tortures samneric
Samneric says "Roger and the chief are both terrors, but Roger…"
Bulleys the Littluns
He distroys their sandcastles
Throws stones towards the littluns
Doesnt hit them on purpose because he still has morals
Eventually looses morals and hits the littluns with rocks
Sam and Eric
Twins
Loyal to Ralph
Forced to join Jacks tribe
Tortured by Roger
Nicknamed “Samneric.”
Takes away Inidividuality
First used by Jack
Piggy is the only one to call them by their real name
When they fight
Brother against Brother
Things are getting worse between the boys
Settings
The Island
Castle rock
the mountain
Signal fire
Platform
Where the Conch is first used
Based during Second World War
The boys were evacuees
Published in 1954
By William Goulding
Themes
Good and Evil
Conflict
Jack and Ralph
Begins with Good being superior to Bad
This is when Ralph is Chief
When jack forms his own tribe, evil takes control
Naval office prevents its triumpth over good, (Jack killing Ralph)
Order and Discipline
Most of the kids are from a private school with high discipline
No adults on the island
Allowing the boys to do what they want
Jack becomes a dictator
Piggy is constantly bullied by Jack
Piggys Brains + Ralphs self discipline = Positive achevement
Crowd mentality
Jack and his choir
Become disciplined when hunting pigs when good orginasation is needed
Climax is when simon get killed because he is mistaken for the beast
The boys behave out of control
Conflict
Internal
Mental
When somebody is struggling to contain forces within them
Rogers Bloodlust
Ralph when searching for the beast, appears confident but is actually scared
External
Phisical
Simon being killed
Roger throwing rocks at the Littluns
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