Lord of the Flies: Good and Evil Quotes

Chapter 5

"Piggy came and stood outside the triangle" "No one had seen the mulberry-coloured birth mark again"

Chapter 7

"Ralph was too fighting to get near, to get a handful of that brown, vulnerable flesh"

Chapter 10

"The Chief's [Jack] blush was hidden by the white and red clay" "Ralph prayed the beast would prefer littluns" Ralph says " 'That was murder' " Piggy justifies " 'He asked for it' " " 'crawling like that out of the dark' " "The tribe lay in a semi-circle before him"

Chapter 12

"The tribe must be sitting round the gutted pig, watching the fat ooze and burn among the ashes" "The breaking of the conch and the death's of Piggy and Simon lay over the island like a vapour". "Roger sharpened a stick at both ends"

Chapter 2

"Trees... fell early and decayed"

Chapter 6

"a figure that hung with dangling limbs" Simon sees the beast as " the picture of a human at on heroic and sick"

Chapter 8

"butterflies danced... - the arrow of the sun fell on him" - Simon at one with nature "You knew didn't you? I'm part of you?" "Jack held up the head and jammed the soft throat down on the pointed end of the stick" "After a while the flies found Simon"

Chapter 1

"eyes that proclaimed no evil" "pulling a lump from the soil" - Ralph

Chapter 9

"laid hold of the creepers to pull himself up" "the white nasal bones, the teeth, the colours of corruption" "the beast was harmless and horrible"

Chapter 3

"seductive, maddening, the promise of meat" "They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate"

Chapter 11

"some source of power began to pulse in Roger's body" - inner evil

Chapter 4

Henry "exercising control over living things" Ralph "He did desperate violence to his naked body among the rasping creepers" Freudian: island = symbol of subconscious mind and Or critical perspective that humans damage nature