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Lord of the Flies: Important Textual Quotations
- Eyes shining, mouths open, triumphant.
- "Let him be chief with the trumpet-thing."
- They're all dead, an' this is an island. Nobody don't know we're here."
- I ought to be chief because I'm chapter chorister ad head boy. I can sing C sharp.
- We'll get food. Catch things until they fetch us.
He would be the head of the hunters who would hunt animals for their meat.
- On either side rocks, cliffs, tree-tops, and a steep slope:
tree-clad,
jungly flat
dense green.
- We must make smoke on the top of the mountain. We must make a fire.
- We're going to hunt pigs and get meat for everybody. And we'll look for the snake too.
- After all we're not savages. We're English; and the English are best at everything. So we've got to do the right things.
- How can you expect to be rescued if you dont put first things first ad act proper?
- Now you been and set the whole island on fire.
- They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
- You talk. But you can't even build huts then you go off hunting and let out the fire.
- And you shut up! Who are you, anyway?
You can't hunt, you can't sing.
- He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them.
- The fire is the most important thing on the island.
- If only they could get a message to us. If only they could send us something grownup
a sign or something.
- Bollocks to the rules! We are strong, we hunt! If there's a beast, we'll hunt it down! We'll close in and beat and beat and beat!
- Life is scientific,
but I know there isn't no fear, either.
- What we are? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What's grown-ups going to think? Going off hunting pigs letting fires out!
- Conch! Conch! We dont need the conch any more.
- "What about the Littluns?"
- Ralph let Jack lead the way.
- Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
- Tonight we're having a feast. We've killed a pig and we've got meat. You can come and eat with us if you like.
- Only Piggy could have the intellectual daring to suggest moving the fire from the mountain.
- You go away, Ralph. You keep to your end. This is my end and my tribe. You leave me alone.
- The conch is gone. I'm chief!
- He forget his wounds, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet, rushing through the forest towards the open beach.
- I should have thought that a pack of British boys - you're all British aren't you? -- would have been able to put up a better show than that -- I mean --
- Devil has taken the place of God.
- The new God of modern world as power.
- Devil stands for man's instinct.
- Man is not a rational being; instinct is more powerful that rationality.
- Power corrupts man and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- He discusses his hypothetic that civilizations developed.
- I am treated as a theologian, philosopher, psychologist, but what I really am at the bottom id a story-teller.
- Rescue of good from the clutches of evil.
- Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.
- Grief, grief, and grief, on the fallen nature of man.
- End of innocence and the darkness of human heart.
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