Background
William Golding served in the branch of the military.
What is the Royal Navy?
Building shelters because the littluns were having nightmares is an example of Ralph's...
Source/views of power (empathy)
Ralph's power comes from his ability to maintain...
What is relationships, democracy, and persuasion?
The conch represents ___________________, and [this event] represents the death of it.
What is Civilization, Rules, Order, or Discipline
What is the shattering of the conch?
This item represents common sense; this event symbolizes its end on the island.
What are Piggy's glasses? His death represents the death of common sense.
These are two global events that shaped the world prior to LOTF being published.
Multiple possible answers: WWI, WWII, the threat of nuclear war, the Korean War
This is an example of Jack exercising his power.
Trying to hold another vote so he can be chief, killing a pig, sanctioning death of Piggy and the torture of Sam and Eric, etc.
Piggy's power comes from his ability to maintain ___________, and eventually falls to _________ ____________________________
What is reason and common sense? However, that reason can be overcome by mass mentality.
This item represents the "defective side of human nature" (sin), and the "reason why it all goes wrong". This character talks to it.
What is the Lord of the Flies? Simon talks with the pig's head on a stick.
This word means a message, topic, or subject in a literary or artistic work, and is evident in literature through multiple events, actions, descriptions, or characterizations
What is a theme?
This mindset ushered in a general distrust of institutions, organized religion, and a refusal in an “objective truth”
(also notoriously hard to define)
What is postmodernism?
Simon's power comes from...
What is morality, the pursuit of truth, or the divine?
The naval officer's conversation with Ralph and his glance back at his ship highlights which 2 major themes?
Propaganda ("I would have expected British boys to put on a better show") and War (the boys are returning to an environment just as violent as the one they left).
Painted masks represent this theme in LOTF and is especially evident in this character.
What are the Loss of Humanity and Jack (or Roger)?
Golding discussed that man can be a ____________ creature, although he breaks.
noble
William Golding loved this book as a child, but satirized it after his experiences in the war.
What is Coral Island?
Golding discusses those who are loyal as long as they can; this character/characters fit that description.
Who are Sam, Eric, or Piggy?
The boys kill Simon for one of these thematic reasons
What is Fear, Loss of Humanity?
This symbol is a hidden truth that only this character discovers; it represents the effects of fear and foreshadows death
What is the dead parachutist? Simon discovers it and dies trying to tell the boys about it.
These are 2 ways that the Destructors and the LOTF boys are different.
Destructors: dispassionate, organized, leadership shifts easily, sense of morality (but flawed)
LOTF: power struggles, fueled by fear, passionate, long for savagery
Scholars often believe Golding believed in _________, but he considers himself more of an ______________.
What are pessimism and optimist (respectively)?
These are 2 ways in which Simon is a Christ-figure
Any of these 2:
Good ideas that are often ignored (such as suggesting they go to the site of the “beast” during the daytime).
Prophetically tells Ralph that he will get off the island (but does not mention himself).
Conversation with the Lord of the Flies mirrors Jesus’s conversation with the devil.
His death brings Ralph back to his sense of humanity (“That was murder.”).
This is a theme from Coral Island (and all British boy adventure books) that Golding subverts through LOTF.
What is Imperialism/Colonialism?
This symbol represents a "mini-version" or microcosm of the world; Golding says only this group can represent it.
The island; only a groups of boys accurately represents society, according to Golding.
Why the Destructors destroy the house.
What is: it is not personal to Mr. Thomas; the house is an offensive presence, considering the rubble the boys grew up in. They emulated what they saw around them (and also took pride in their destruction)?