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Mind Map by ohsolauren, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by ohsolauren
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Lord of The Flies
- Symbolism
- conch
- symbolises authority, order,
power and civilisation. When
conch breaks it show how
these things are lost and
demonstrates the breakdown
of civilisation and how
savagery conquers discipline
- symbolises authority, order,
power and civilisation. When
conch breaks it show how
these things are lost and
demonstrates the breakdown
of civilisation and how
savagery conquers discipline
- fire
- symbolises the boys
connection to civilisation.
The fire shows that the
boys want to be rescued
and that hope is still
present. When the boys
let the fire go out it shoes
how that the boys have
lost desire to be rescued
and for civilisation and
that hope is lost.
- symbolises the boys
connection to civilisation.
The fire shows that the
boys want to be rescued
and that hope is still
present. When the boys
let the fire go out it shoes
how that the boys have
lost desire to be rescued
and for civilisation and
that hope is lost.
- war
- Symbolises how an
uncivilised act (war) changed
a group of normal, well
behaved adults into murders,
the fact the plane crashed
due to war, foreshadows
whhow the island changes
the children into savages and
murderers.
- Symbolises how an
uncivilised act (war) changed
a group of normal, well
behaved adults into murders,
the fact the plane crashed
due to war, foreshadows
whhow the island changes
the children into savages and
murderers.
- beast
- Symbolises fear and how
the boys are still of a young
age. Shows that there is evil
inside each and every one
of us, and how the 'beast' is
not the real danger, it's the
boys themselves.
- Symbolises fear and how
the boys are still of a young
age. Shows that there is evil
inside each and every one
of us, and how the 'beast' is
not the real danger, it's the
boys themselves.
- Piggy's
glasses
- symbolises the power of
science and intellectual
endeavor in society - the
boys fight over the glasses,
they become essential for
survival and when they are
gone Ralph and Piggy are
helpless
- symbolises the power of
science and intellectual
endeavor in society - the
boys fight over the glasses,
they become essential for
survival and when they are
gone Ralph and Piggy are
helpless
- the Lord of
the Flies
- In Hebrew, another word
for the Devil is Beezlebub,
which translates in
English to 'The Lord of the
Flies'
- In Hebrew, another word
for the Devil is Beezlebub,
which translates in
English to 'The Lord of the
Flies'
- storm
- Weather continuously
gets worse and worse
as civilization breaks
down, storm occurs
symbolising the
complete breakdown of
civilization
- Weather continuously
gets worse and worse
as civilization breaks
down, storm occurs
symbolising the
complete breakdown of
civilization
- conch
- Characterisation
- Ralph
- order, leadership,
civilisation, smart,
worried, caring,
rational
- voice of good
- Shows example, reminds the
boys of how they should be
acting which ruins their 'fun'
as it makes them think of the
bad things they have done.
- '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'
- voice of good
- order, leadership,
civilisation, smart,
worried, caring,
rational
- Piggy
- scientific and
intellectual
aspects of
civilisation
- voice of reason
- 'What are we? Humans?
Or animals? Or savages?
What's grown-ups going
to think?'
- voice of reason
- scientific and
intellectual
aspects of
civilisation
- Jack
- savage, desire for power, animal
like, alpha male, primal instincts,
passive aggressive
- voice of evil
- 'eyes that in this
frustration seemed
bolting and nearly mad'
- 'out of his face stared
two light blue eyes,
frustrated now and
turning, or ready to
turn, to anger'
- 'flared nostrils'
- voice of evil
- savage, desire for power, animal
like, alpha male, primal instincts,
passive aggressive
- Simon
- natural human
goodness, associated
with nature, at one
with nature, peaceful
- voice of religion
- 'maybe there is a
beast...maybe it's
only us'
- voice of religion
- natural human
goodness, associated
with nature, at one
with nature, peaceful
- Ralph
- Contrast
- Jack and Ralph
- Physical
- Ralph; 'the
boy with the
fair hair'
- Jack; 'his hair
was read
underneath his
black cap'
- Ralph; 'the
boy with the
fair hair'
- Personal
- Jack; 'he tried to
convey the
compulsion to kill
that was
swallowing him up'
- Ralph; 'the best
thing we can do is
get ourselves
rescued'
- Jack; 'he tried to
convey the
compulsion to kill
that was
swallowing him up'
- Seperation
- 'they walked
along two
continents of
experience and
feeling, unable to
communicate'
- 'they looked
at each other
baffled, in
love and hate'
- 'by the time the pile
was built they were
on different sides
of a high barrier'
- 'they walked
along two
continents of
experience and
feeling, unable to
communicate'
- Physical
- Jack and Ralph
- Themes
- Violence
- Jack's want to kill
a pig - 'you
should have seen
the blood!'
- the ritual chant - 'kill the
pig. Cut her throat. Bash
her in'
- Simon is killed -
'tearing of teeth
and claws'
- Jack's want to kill
a pig - 'you
should have seen
the blood!'
- War
- portrayed on the
island through the
boys behavior
- 'smoke was rising
here and there among
the creepers that
festooned the dying
trees'
- 'a tree exploded in
the fire like a distant
bomb'
- 'smoke was rising
here and there among
the creepers that
festooned the dying
trees'
- portrayed on the
island through the
boys behavior
- Good vs Evil
- portrayed through the
constant battle between Jack
and Ralph
- portrayed through the
constant battle between Jack
and Ralph
- Nature vs Nurture
- Violence
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