lord of the flies

Cards (29)

  • 'the beast' is an embodiment of evil
  • “Maybe there is a beast…maybe it’s only us” -Simon
  • “wept for the end of innocence and his true wise friend Piggy” -Ralph
  • Ralph represents the Ego in Freud’s psychological theory.
  • Jack is the Id in Freud’s psychological theory.
  • “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
  • “Sucks to your ass-mar!” -Ralph
  • “The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness“ -about Jack
  • “the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments, and ceased to exist.”
  • “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.”
  • “I ought to be chief” -Jack
  • “Let’s have a vote.” -Roger
  • “Bollocks to the rules!” -Jack
  • “Acting like a crowd of kids!” -Piggy
  • “Give me my specs!” -Piggy
  • “What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?“ -Piggy
  • “As if it wasn’t a good island… As if...the beastie, the beastie or the snake-thing, was real. Remember?” -Simon
  • “We used Piggy’s specs...He helped that way.” -Simon
  • “You’ll get back all right. I think so, anyway.” -Simon
  • “Things are breaking up.“ -Ralph
  • “That was Simon... That was murder.” -Ralph
  • “I’m frightened. Of us. I want to go home. Oh God, I want to go home.” -Ralph
  • “Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?” -Ralph
  • “Don’t you want to be rescued? All you can talk about is pig, pig, pig!” -Ralph
  • “Hands up like at school.”
  • “bloodthirsty snarling” -about Jack
  • “We’re going to hunt him down and kill him!” -Jack
  • “boys with sticks” -Ralph
  • The naval officer states that he would have expected "a better show“ from British children