Lord of the Flies
What comes to the island that everyone thinks is a beast?
A parachutist
The Lord of the Flies is symbolic of?
Man's inherent savagery
Evil
The Devil
What is human nature?
The qualities and characteristics mankind possesses at birth.
What do the boys go looking for at the start of chapter 7?
The beast
“If you’re hunting sometimes you catch yourself feeling as if—” He flushed suddenly. “There’s nothing in it of course. Just a feeling. But you can feel as if you’re not hunting, but—being hunted, as if something’s behind you all the time in the jungle.”
Jack
Which character does not dance at Jack’s first feast on the mountaintop and is considered an outsider throughout the novel?
Simon
The conch is symbolic of?
Civilization
Adult Rules
Democratic Order
Even the choir applauded; and the freckles on Jack’s face disappeared under a blush of mortification.
What does mortification mean?
Embarrassment
What does Ralph do when he joins in on the pig hunt?
He feels that he gets carried away.
He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human, and the ambushing fears of the deep night were coming on.
Ralph
What is the name of the character who pushes the boulder causing Piggy's death?
Roger
What theme does Ralph represent in the novel?
Civilization / order / democracy
What vocabulary word can be used to describe the lack of morals displayed by the boys?
Depravity
What does Jack do with the pig's head?
The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible. He started down the mountain and his legs gave beneath him.
Simon
Who is the first to die on the island?
The little boy with the scar on his face
What theme does Jack represent?
Savagery / Dictatorship
What KO term is Simon alluding to?
However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick.
Original Sin
What does Piggy's death symbolize?
The death of logic and reason
Again he fell into that strange mood of speculation that was so foreign to him. If faces were different when lit from above of below—What was a face? What was anything?
Ralph
What is the main theme we've discussed in the novel?
Human Nature
Civilization vs. Savagery
What does Piggy's character represent?
Logic and reason
What does Simon mean he says "what I mean is...maybe it's only us."
Which philosopher's viewpoint most closely aligns with Simon view on human nature?
Hobbes
Jack repeating at the beginning of the novel that they are not savages is an example of what?
Irony
“Listen, Ralph. Nevermind what’s sense. That’s gone—“
Eric