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The name of the Fire Captain
What is Beatty?
The kind of verse that uses the same letter to start the majority of the words in a stanza
What is alliterative verse?
This is the savage slave of Prospero who speaks in both prose and in blank verse.
Who is Caliban?
This is used to call the boys to assembly.
What is the conch?
For the purposes of obtaining security, this social contract theorist recommends transferring all freedoms and sovereignty to the state.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
One of the books of the Bible memorized by Guy Montag
What is Ecclesiastes or What is Job?
Toward the end of a stanza, it is the hard indent followed by a prologue or foretelling of what to expect in the next stanza.
Why is a bob and wheel?
This is the spirit who is a servant of Prospero.
Who is Ariel?
This is the figure that descends from the sky while the boys are sleeping and is later mistaken for the beast.
What is a parachuting dead man?
For the purposes of obtaining security, this social contract theorist recommends transferring some -but not all! - freedoms and sovereignty to the state.
Who is John Locke?
The name of a futuristic living room that consists of floor-to-ceiling screens broadcasting mindless television shows featuring characters that feel more real to the viewers than their own family members (!)
What is the Parlor?
As a knight of the round table, you would be expected to follow this virtuous code of ethics.
What is the chivalric code?
The two characters who stand for cut-throat power politics/realism?
Who are Antonio and Sebastian?
This is the first boy killed on the island.
Who is Simon?
For the purposes of obtaining security, this social contract theorist recommends a revolution in which all sovereignty and freedom are taken back from the state.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
The fate of Guy Montag's hometown at the end of the story
What is nuclear annihilation?
In the arduous journey to find the Green Knight, Sir Gawain displays this chivalric virtue.
What is courage?
The character used to parody idealism.
Who is Gonzalo?
This is the second boy killed on the island.
Who is Piggy?
This is the social contract theorist who is famous for declaring that life in a state of nature would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
What is Plato's Republic?
In the end, Sir Gawain encounters the Green Knight and presents himself to receive the Green Knight's blow - Sir Gawain's physical action when the Green Knight's sword descends upon him.
What is flinching?
The character who, breaking the fourth wall during the live performance in Staunton, passed out drunk on Dr. Frank in the audience.
Who is Trinculo?
The progression of chapters going from "Beast from Water" to "Beast from Air" may be read as invoking this book of the Bible.
What is Revelation?
This is the title of a work by Thomas Hobbes that may be invoked through "Beast from Water" in Lord of the Flies.
What is The Leviathan?