Lord Of The Flies Key Quotes

Lord Of The Flies Key Quotes

  Ralph 'jerked his stockings with an automatic gesture' 'a link with the adult world of authority' 'safety'         'they respected him' 'carried away by a sudden thick excitement' 'fighting to get near...the desire to hurt was overmastering' ''He's the only one who ever got anything done'' ''cos i had some sense'' ''Who's boss here''      ''I am' said Ralph loudly' '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' 

Lord Of The Flies Key Quotes

Piggy 'Perhaps there aren't any grown ups here'      'The fat boy looked startled' 'hung steadily at his shoulder' 'saw the smile and misinterpreted it as friendliness' 'full of pride in his contribution to the good of society' accepting him, he flushed pinkly with pride' ''I tell you, I got the conch!'' 'His head opened and stuff came out and turned red. Piggy's arms and legs twitched a bit, like a pig's after it has been killed'

Lord Of The Flies Key Quotes

Jack's Choir 'dark...fumbling along' 'from throat to ankle...hidden' 'wearily obedient' 'uniformed superiority' 'who stood ready'  

Lord Of The Flies Key Quotes

Jack 'The boy who controlled them' ''I ought to be chief' said Jack...'I'm chapter chorister'' 'inevitably leading' 'Drove Jack to violence' 'He looked in astonishment, no longer at himself but at an awesome stranger' 'Behind which Jack hid liberated from shame and self conciousness' 'he was a chief now in truth' 'Jack, painted and garlanded, sat there like an idol' 'the log that was his throne' 'A little boy who wore the remains of an extraordinary black cap...started forward, then changed his mind'

Lord Of The Flies Key Quotes

The Conch 'expensive'      'glistening'      'respectfully'      'delicate'      'Fragile'       'magic'      'The fragile, shining beauty of the shell' 'cradling the great cream shell' 'Ralph was left holding the conch with no one but Piggy' 'The conch doesn't count on the top of the mountain' said Jack 'Ralph felt a kind of affectionate reverence for the conch' 'Piggy lifted the conch as though to add power to his next few words' (Piggy) 'passionate willingness to carry the conch against all odds' 'The conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist' 'The skull that gleamed as white as ever the conch had done'      

Lord Of The Flies Key Quotes

Law/Order/Society '' I expect we'll want to know all their names'' 'make a list' 'we ought to have a meeting' '[Ralph] said with the directness of genuine leadership' 'Hands up like at school' 'tradition of work, play and food  right through the day , made it impossible for them to adjust' 'the world, that understandable and lawful world was slipping away' ''The Rules! You're breaking the rules!''       ''Who cares?''      ''Because the rules are the only things we've got'' 'Piggy and Ralph...eager to take a place in this demented but partly secured society' 'where the assembly used to sit' 'Sam'n'Eric protested out of the heart of civilisation' 'There was no Piggy to talk sense. There was no solemn assembly for debate nor dignity of the conch''

Lord Of The Flies Key Quotes

Grown Ups 'Toy of Voting' 'no parent...still felt the unease of wrongdoing' 'protection of parents and school and policemen and the law' 'conditioned by a civilisation' ''At home there was always a grown up..then you got an answer'' ''Grown ups know things, they ain't afraid of the dark. They'd meet and have tea and discuss'' 'striving unsuccessfully to convey the majesty of adult life'

Lord Of The Flies Key Quotes

Descent Into Savagery (Jack)   ''After all we're not savages'' 'Jack had to think for a moment before he could realise what rescue was' 'The mask compelled them' There was the brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration, skill, and there was the world of longing and baffled common sense' 'The sound of mock hunting, hysterical laughter and real terror' ''We'll kill it'' 'Demoniac Figures' 'Tearing of teeth and claws' 'Ralph was a shock of hair and Piggy a bag of fat'