- “ ‘There’s nothing in it of course. Just a feeling But you can feel as if you’re not hunting but – being hunted…” Pg 51 (JACK’S REFERENCE TO POSSIBILITY OF BEAST)
Chapter Four – Painted Faces and Long Hair
- “Now, thought there was no parent to let fall a heavy hand, Maurice still felt the unease of wrongdoing” Pg 59 (SOCIAL CONDITIONING STOPS OUR INNER EVIL MANIFESTING ITSELF – SOCIAL RULES/SOCIETY IMPORTANT/ MAURICE KICKING OVER LITTLE’UNS SANDCASTLES)
- “Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry – threw to miss” Pg 61 (FORESHADOWS LATER EVENTS – ROCK KILLING PIGGY)
- “Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life” Pg 61 (SOCIAL CONDITIONING/RULES STILL INFLUENCE ROGER)
- ****Key Quote****
“…the mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness.” Pg 63 (MASK SYMBOL ALLOWS REGRESSION – TAKES AWAY SHAME)
- “The mask compelled them” Pg 63 (MASK ALLOWS SOCIAL CONDITIONING/RULES TO DROP. LIBERATES HUNTERS TO MAKE THEIR FIRST KILL)
Chapter Five – Beast from Water
- “I know there isn’t no beast – not with claws and all that, I mean – but I know there isn’t no fear either” Pg 84 (PIGGY TRYING TO VERBALISE THE BOYS’ FEAR OF THE BEAST)
- “Unless we get frightened of people” Pg 85 (PIGGY JEERED FOR SAYING THIS – UNDERLINES GOLDINGS’ KEY THEME)
- “Bollocks to the rules! We’re strong – we hunt! If there’s a beast, we’ll hunt it down” Pg 93 (JACK OPENLY CHALLENGES THE RULES)
Chapter Six – Beast from Air
- “However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick” Pg 106 (SIMON DOESN’T BELIEVE IN ‘BEAST’ REALISES WHAT IS TO BE FEARED IS WITHIN THE BOYS. CANNOT ARTICULATE THIS.)
Chapter Seven – Shadows and Tall Trees
- “Ralph too was fighting to get near, to get a handful fo that brown, vulnerable flesh. The desire to squeeze and hurt was overmastering” Pg 119 (EVEN RALPH HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR EVIL)
- “ ‘Just a game,’ said Ralph uneasily” (“UNEASILY” DEMONSTRATES RALPH’S UNDERSTANDING THAT PERHAPS THIS WAS NOT A GAME. UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THIS THOUGHT – UNLIKE JACK)
Chapter Eight – Gift for the Darkness
- “ ‘Hands up,’ said Jack strongly, ‘whoever wants Ralph not to be chief?’” Pg 133 (JACK OPENLY CHALLENGES RALPH’S LEADERSHIP WHEN NO-ONE RESPONDS HE GOES OFF IN A HUFF. INVITES OTHERS TO JOIN HIM – FACTIONS DEVELOPING/SOCIETY DISINTEGRATING)
- “…stark naked save for paint and a belt, was Jack” Pg 147
“He was safe from shame or self-consciousness behind the mask of his paint and could look at each of them in turn” Pg 147/148
(DESPITE HIS NAKEDNESS JACK IS NOT SELF CONSCIOUS – MASK MAKES HIM CONFIDENT. HE HAS REGRESSED FURTHER SINCE SPLITTING THE GROUP.)
- “ ‘ You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you?...I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are” Pg 151 (SIMON’S CONVERSATION WITH THE BEAST – HE UNDERSTANDS BEST WITHIN BOYS)
Chapter Nine – A view to a Death
- “The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as quickly as possible” Pg 155 (SIMON AFTER DISCOVERING ‘BEAST’ IS IN FACT THE DEAD PARACHUTIST)
- “Jack, painted and garlanded, sat there like an idol” Pg 157
“Jack rose from the log that was his throne…” Pg 158
“And the conch doesn’t count at this end of the island” Pg 159
(JACK’S TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP CONTRAST WITH RALPH’S DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP)
- “Piggy and Ralph, under the threat of the sky found themselves eager to take place in this demented but partly secure society” (SAFETY IN NUMBERS – PART OF GROUP)
- “There was the throb and stamp of a single organism” Pg 161 (MOB RULE – DANCE/CHANT/FEAST/BOYS ACTING AS ONE)
- “At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws” Pg 161 (SIMON’S MURDER. CROWD NOW A MOB – SIMON SEEN AS BEAST IN THE FREZY OF THE ATTACK)
Chapter Ten – The shell and the Glasses
- “that was murder” Ralph Pg 165
“It was dark. There was that – that bloody dance. There was lightning and thunder and rain. We was scared” Piggy Pg 166
(PIGGY TRIES TO REASON WITH RALPH AS TO WHY IT WAS NOT MURDER)
- “I am frightened of us” Ralph Pg 166 (RALPH SEES WHAT SIMON DID – NO BEAST TO BE SCARED OF, SIMPLY THE BOYS)
- “The Chief was sitting there, naked to the waist, his face blocked out in white and red” Pg 169 (JACK NO LONGER ‘JACK’ – NOW CALLED ‘CHIEF’)
Chapter Eleven – Castle Rock
- “You let me carry the conch…I’ll show him the one thing he hasn’t got” Pg 182 (PIGGY BEFORE HE AND RALPH CONFRONT JACK ABOUT STEALING PIGGY’S GLASSES. PIGGY DOESN’T REALISE THAT JACK DOESN’T VALUE THE CONCH – DOESN’T VALUE DEMOCRACY.)
- “The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist” Pg 193 (PIGGY MURDERED BY ROGER. SYMBOLICALLY DESTRUCTION OF CONCH HIGHLIGHTS THE COMPLETE DESTRUCTION OF DEMOCRACY)
- “He obeyed and instinct that he did not know he possessed…” Pg 194 (RALPH FLEEING THE ARROW HURLED AT HIM BY THE SAVAGES. RULES GONE – HE IS NOW A TARGET)
Chapter Twelve – Cry of the Hunters
- ***KEY QUOTE***
“Roger sharpened a stick at both ends. Ralph tried to attach a meaning to this but could not” Pg 202/203 (RALPH DOESN’T REALISE WHAT THE READER DOES. HIS HEAD WILL BE NEW OFFERING TO THE BEAST. HE IS BEING HUNTED TO BE KILLED)
- “Ralph launched himself like a cat; stabbed, snarling with the spear, and the savage doubled up” Pg 208 (RALPH’S INSTINCTS TO PROTECT HIMSELF)
- “A little boy who wore the remains of an extraordinary black cap on his red hair and who carried the remains of a pair of spectacles at his waist, started forward, then changed his mind and stood still” Pg 215 (JACK’S RESPONSE TO NAVAL OFFICER’S QUESTION ABOUT LEADERSHIP SEEN AS A ‘LITTLE’ BOY – FRIGHTENING WHEN WE CONSIDER WHAT HE WAS GOING TO DO)
- ***KEY QUOTE***
“…Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy” Pg 216 (IMPORTANT QUOTATION – RALPH UNDERSTANDS MAN’S POTENTIAL FOR EVIL – HOPE THAT HE CAN USE THIS KNOWLEDGE TO ENSURE DEMOCRACY/RULES ETC TO KEEP OUR EVIL POTENTIAL IN CHECK)
