Savagery and evil

• Next time (Jack)

• After all, we’re not savages (Jack)

• Dog-like [..] ape-like [..] tattered shorts [..] flared nostrils (Jack)

• Seductive, maddening - the promise of meat (Jack)

• Compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up (Jack)

• I thought I might kill (Jack)

• absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things (roger)

• He noticed blood on his hands and grinned distastefully  (Jack)

• Am I a hunter or not? (Jack)

• Man-kind’s essential illness (simon) 

• Robert squealed in mock terror, then in real pain

• The chant rose ritually

• The desire to squeeze and hunt was over-mastering (Ralph)

• The stain vanished. Another took its place (about Jack and Roger)

• I’m not going to play any longer (Jack)

• Wedded into her lust [..] fulfilled upon her [..] -(vs)-> deep maternal bliss

• Kill the beast, cut his throat, spill his blood

• Sniggering of the savages became a loud decisive jeer

• Sharpened a stick at both ends (Roger)

Leadership and power (description of boys)

• All them other kids (Piggy)

• Proclaimed no devil (Ralph)

• His ordinary voice sounded like a whisper after the high note of the conch

• Ugly without silliness (Jack)

• I ought to be chief (Jack)

• He wants to know what you’re going to do about the snake-thing (littluns to Ralph)

• Together, joined in effort

• Where is he now?

• He was angry with himself for giving way (Ralph)

• But Piggy, for his ludicrous body, had brains

• If something did get you, you useless lot of cry babies (Jack)

• My asthma’ - the response was mechanical (piggy)

• Jack, painted and garlanded, sat there like an idol

• Authority sat on his shoulder and chattered in his ear like an ape (Jack)

(Loss of) Identity

• Jack planned his new face

• The mask compelled them

• (Sam and Eric becoming Sam’n’Eric)

• But there was no more to come (Percival Wemys Madison)

Civilisation

• Use them as burning glasses. Piggy was surrounded 

• Piggy glanced nervously into hell and cradled the conch

• Taboo of the old life

• Protection of parents and school and policemen and the law (Roger)

• (the conch)

• We don’t need the conch any more (Jack)

• Drawing a circular pattern (Jack)

• Bollocks to the rules (Jack)

• The conch exploded into a thousand tiny white fragments and ceased to exist

• (Society->) Demented but partly secure society

Innocence/ Good

• You’ll get back to where you came from (Simon)

• Moonbeam [..] silver [..] pearls

• Great, shuddering spasms of grief (Ralph)

• Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart

Jack

Ralph

Simon

Roger

Piggy