Lord of the Flies - Chapter 1

Characters
1. Ralph
  1. Happy without adults, stands on his head
  2. "The boy with the fair hair", "golden body"
  3. Blows the conch that Piggy finds, people come and votes him chief because of the power of the conch
  4. Calls assemblies to decide what to do - making shelters, being rescued, keeping the fire going, getting food, etc.
  5. Looks on the positive side of things - e.g "He's a commander in the navy. When he get's leave he'll come and rescue us."
  6. Represents the ego
2. Piggy
  1. Timid and afraid, intelligent but gives Ralph the credit for things as he wants to make friends
  2. Voices the negative things that everyone avoids talking about - e.g "Not them. Didn't you hear what the pilot said? About the atom bomb? They're all dead."
  3. "fatly naked", "specs"
  4. Lots of physical weaknesses (fat, asthma, glasses) so he isn't liked by the boys, especially Jack.
  5. Represents the superego.
3. Jack
  1. Represents the id.
  2. Jealous of Ralph being voted chief - thinks he should be chief because he can sing and is head of the choir boys.
  3. Doesn't like Ralph at first and sees him as below him - e.g "The boy came close and peered down at Ralph"
  4. Authoritative, natural leader
Plot
1. The boys
  1. Aged 6-12
  2. Only boys
  3. All from different schools
2. Evacuated from school
  1. WW2 - England destroyed by an atom bomb so no one knows where they are.
3. Crash landed on the island with no adults
  1. " 'Where's the man with the trumpet?'. (...) 'There's no adults. Only me.' "
4. Started a settlement and voted Ralph for chief
5. Ralph, Jack and Simon go off and climb the mountain to check whether they are on an island - Piggy is hurt that he isn't allowed to come but Ralph puts him in charge of getting names.
Setting
1. The beach
  1. "The shore was fledged with palm trees."
  2. "White surf flinked on a coral reef."
2. The Mountain
  1. "pink cliffs"
  2. "diminished piles of rocks"
3. The lagoon
  1. "as still as a mountain lake"
4. The scar
  1. "wide open space"
  2. " 'That's what the tube made' "
Themes & Symbols
1. The Conch
  1. Symbolises democracy - the symbol of Ralph the chief. The boys could only speak while holding it. Shows how it started of well.
2. The island
  1. Golding uses the island has a microcosm for society as a whole - humans, put in this situation couldn't survive. Starting to hint at the message of the book.
3. War and Violence
  1. The boys crash land because they were being evacuated from school, escaping the threat of an atom bomb in England during WW2

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