| "The mask compelled them." | This is talking about how the mask compelled Sam and Eric when they saw it on Jack. Their morals shifted and their beast ultimately took over. They were compelled from the aspect that it liberated them from shame and self-consciousness. (page 64) |
| What does Ralph Symbolize | He symbolizes leadership, civilization, and order |
| What does Jack symbolize | He symbolizes impulsivity and violence, and the darkness and savagery. |
| What does Piggy symbolize | He symbolizes science, maturity, an adult figure and intelligence |
| What does Simon symbolize | He symbolizes the good and pure intents to help, and dreams |
| What does Littlun symbolize | Fear and immaturity |
| what does the conch symbolize | it symbolizes leadership civilization mostly on Ralphs part, it shows the order on the Island because they take turns talking. They colors on the shell start to fade same as the Ralph's leadership and civilization and order on the island |
| what does the scar symbolize | It is personification for the physical damage the plane left when it crashes and the scar the children are gonna leave on the island and how humans always leave a scar in nature everywhere civilization goes |
| what does piggy's glasses symbolize | It represents intelligence and common sense just like piggy, how he thinks with reasoning and how to go back to civilization. They use the glasses to make the fire to eventually get rescued so this is symbolizing civilization in piggy's way. When Jack breaks the glasses that is when civilization is replaced with savagery and violence. |
| what does the fire symbolize | The hope of going back to civilization, when the fire is going they want to be rescued but when it is not cared for they think about surviving and staying on the island forever |
| what does the beast symbolize | The fear and cruelty of every person. First they think that it is an external thing like the snake, sea creature, ghost, parachute guy, but when looking for a physical thing they do not find it until they realize the beast is inside them all along. You can see examples of this when you look at when Jack first encountered a pig and when he killed it. Also with the bullying of piggy, the savagery of the beast is brought up in the children habiting the island |
| what does he island symbolize | It represents heaven and hell. First heaven because there are no adult or rules we have to follow they can play and are filled with hope and pleasentary, but the hell comes when they realize that they are not going to be rescued anytime soon and the fear settles in. They have a beast, struggles with weather and it seems more like hell because they are stuck there with no fire and no civilization |
| what does the ocean symbolize | isolation: they are isolated on the island from the ocean and that is the barrier from the rest of the world. Hope: they see ships pass by and that is a glimpse of hope and the ocean is their only way out |
| The forms of rules and order on the island | Ralph- puts rules like the conch and keep the fire going but Jack challenges his authority after agreeing that we should have a civilized island but instead chooses quick rewards, pleasantry, violence and listens to his beast inside. Eventually the society on the island decide to follow their own inner beast and choose Jack as their leader and there is no more rules or order on the island only impulsivity and violence |
| "Ralph danced out into the hot air of the beach and then returned as a fighter-plane, with wings swept back, and machine-gunned Piggy" | When Ralph and Piggy first meet and Piggy explains that he does not want to be called Piggy but Ralph laughs at him and calls him piggy. This shows the first signs of bullying one of the main symbols of the book and Piggy wants the start from scratch with civilization and does not work and this shows foreshadowing for later on in the book (page 11) |
| "Jack had to think for a moment before he could remember what rescue was" | Jack, Simon, and Ralph are talking about the fear of the beast in the littluns and Jack is the only one who sympathizes with them. He says that when he hunts he feels as if there is something watching him but Ralph and Simon don't understand and they just want be to be rescued. Jack wakes up from this idea as he distracted from all the impulsivity and violence and hunting, he forgets that about being rescued because he is comforted by the idea of a life on the island (page 53) |
| "Like kids!...Acting like a crowd of kids!" | Piggy said this because he is frustrated that all the littlun, they built the fire than left, they do not have the intelligence or maturity piggy has, so they respond to orders for the first five minutes than leave. Piggy feels alone in this moment since they do not know the reasoning to the orders like building fires. (page 38) |
| "At the back of his mind formed the uncertain outlines of an excuse. He muttered something about a swim and broke into a trot" | This talks about when Maurice kicked the three littluns sand castles, you can see that he still has morality and inocence left and wants to have an excuse for this savage act even thought there are no rules or adults to tell him to do so. Later on this remorse disappears when his beast comes out (page 60) |
| "He capered toward Bill, and the mask was a thing of its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness." | This was said when Jack first put on the mask with the red representing the blood and violence and the black darkness and impurity, and the white his innocence that he is desperately trying to get rid of. He puts the mask on and doesn't even recognizes himself anymore giving him the impression that he is a different person and removes the fear of killing and violence and gives him no shame in doing it (page 64) |
| "The mask compelled them." | This is talking about how the mask compelled Sam and Eric when they saw it on Jack. Their morals shifted and their beast ultimately took over. They were compelled from the aspect that it liberated them from shame and self-consciousness. It shows the true power the mask has, and the fear Jack held so Sam and Eric obey him and leave the role of taking care of the fire (page 64) |
| "You should have seen the blood!" | This was said by Jack after he killed his first pig, if you compare it to the first interaction with pigs on the island he could not slit its throat and said that the blood would have been too much. Now when he comes back with the pig he is excited with all the blood she spilt and the violence it took and seeing that his innocence disappeared thanks the his inner beast and the mask he wore. (page 70) |
| "By the time the pile was built, they were on different sides of a high barrier." | This talks about how Jacks try's to take power away from Ralph but Ralph shows that everyone still thinks as him as chief and is above everyone else. Jack doesn't even ask Ralph to move from the usual fire making place so they have to make the fire somewhere more inconvenient. Even with no words Ralph asserts his dominance and power he still holds (page 73) |
| "What I mean is...maybe it's only us" | Simon speaks these words in Chapter 5, during the meeting in which the boys consider the question of the beast. One littlun has proposed the terrifying idea that the beast may hide in the ocean during the day and emerge only at night, and the boys argue about whether the beast might actually exist. Simon, meanwhile, proposes that perhaps the beast is only the boys themselves. Although the other boys laugh off Simon’s suggestion, Simon’s words are central to Golding’s point that innate human evil exists. Simon is the first character in the novel to see the beast not as an external force but as a component of human nature. (page 89) |
