Lord of the Flies English Literature
Revision Notes
Contents Page:
- PAGE 2: Plot, themes and quotes from each chapter
- PAGE 6: Notes on themes across the play
- PAGE 11: Notes on characters across the play
- PAGE 14: Plans for essays on characters
- PAGE 17: Plans for essays on themes and symbols
- PAGE 20: Plans for essays on past paper questions
- PAGE 23: Quote bank
,Plot:
Chapter 1 and 2:
- The island is a typical paradise but with a darker side
- Introduction of Ralph and Piggy and Jack
- Ralph elected as leader
- Conch discovered - used to decide who speaks when and calls meetings
- Ralph, Jack and Simon explore the island. They push a rock of a hill -
foreshadowing Piggy’s death
- Jack tries to kill a pig - but fails.
- Fear introduced: Small boy claims to have seen beastie
- Destruction and disorganisation introduced: First fire created using
Piggy’s glasses. But disorganisation causes fire to spread uncontrollably
and kills a child.
- THEMES:
1) Organisation
2) Democracy
3) Order
4) Loss of discipline
5) Loss of order
6) Loss of control
- QUOTES:
1) ‘[The conch] is ever so valuable’ > Piggy
2) ‘We use this to call a meeting’ > Piggy
3) The conch: ‘Most powerfully’ yet ‘delicate thing’
4) Jack: ‘After all, we are not savages’. ‘We have got to have rules and
obey them’
Chapter 3 and 4:
- Jack becomes more savage. Applies face paint, becomes obsessed with
hunting
- Jack neglects his responsibilities and lets the fire go out
- Littluns suffer from constant illnesses and bad diet
- Roger throws stones at littluns - but aiming to miss due to the memory of
adult disapproval
- Jack and hunters separate from other boys with aim of hunting and
feasting
- Other boys - mainly Ralph and Simon - focus on building shelter
- Simon plucks fruits for the littluns and seeks solitude away from other boys.
- More disorganisation - fire is let out causing a ship to leave
, - THEMES:
1) Conflicts
2) Failure to create order and civilization
3) Disorganisation
4) Savergy
5) Bullying
- QUOTES:
1) ‘The compulsion to track down and kill’
2) ‘Don’t you want to be rescued?’, ‘But we want meat!’
3) ‘Two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate’.
4) ‘Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach’
5) ‘Roger… picked up a stone... And threw to miss’.
6) The mask ‘liberated’ Jack ‘from shame and self-consciousness’
Chapter 5 and 6:
- Ralph calls an assembly to lay down rules that the boys need to follow
- Reminds them of the fire and it’s importance and the boys’ failure to
understand the danger they are in
- Ralph and Jack dispute and Jack leaves with his hunters
- Ralph and Piggy act as parental figures and logically explain there cannot be
a beast on the island
- They also discuss the Beast and Simon suggests the beast is ‘within’ - but
the other boys fail to understand the message trying to be conveyed by Simon
- The parachutist is discovered by Samneric which enhances the fear of the
beast
- THEMES:
1) Fear
2) Disputes for power
3) Darkness within
- QUOTES:
1) ‘Things are breaking up, and I don’t understand why’
2) ‘The sun went down as if the light went out’
3) ‘[Jack] spoke against the rules - but nobody minded’
4) ‘Simon became inarticulate to express mankind’s essential illness’
5) ‘Soon the darkness was full of claws, full of the unknown and menace’
Revision Notes
Contents Page:
- PAGE 2: Plot, themes and quotes from each chapter
- PAGE 6: Notes on themes across the play
- PAGE 11: Notes on characters across the play
- PAGE 14: Plans for essays on characters
- PAGE 17: Plans for essays on themes and symbols
- PAGE 20: Plans for essays on past paper questions
- PAGE 23: Quote bank
,Plot:
Chapter 1 and 2:
- The island is a typical paradise but with a darker side
- Introduction of Ralph and Piggy and Jack
- Ralph elected as leader
- Conch discovered - used to decide who speaks when and calls meetings
- Ralph, Jack and Simon explore the island. They push a rock of a hill -
foreshadowing Piggy’s death
- Jack tries to kill a pig - but fails.
- Fear introduced: Small boy claims to have seen beastie
- Destruction and disorganisation introduced: First fire created using
Piggy’s glasses. But disorganisation causes fire to spread uncontrollably
and kills a child.
- THEMES:
1) Organisation
2) Democracy
3) Order
4) Loss of discipline
5) Loss of order
6) Loss of control
- QUOTES:
1) ‘[The conch] is ever so valuable’ > Piggy
2) ‘We use this to call a meeting’ > Piggy
3) The conch: ‘Most powerfully’ yet ‘delicate thing’
4) Jack: ‘After all, we are not savages’. ‘We have got to have rules and
obey them’
Chapter 3 and 4:
- Jack becomes more savage. Applies face paint, becomes obsessed with
hunting
- Jack neglects his responsibilities and lets the fire go out
- Littluns suffer from constant illnesses and bad diet
- Roger throws stones at littluns - but aiming to miss due to the memory of
adult disapproval
- Jack and hunters separate from other boys with aim of hunting and
feasting
- Other boys - mainly Ralph and Simon - focus on building shelter
- Simon plucks fruits for the littluns and seeks solitude away from other boys.
- More disorganisation - fire is let out causing a ship to leave
, - THEMES:
1) Conflicts
2) Failure to create order and civilization
3) Disorganisation
4) Savergy
5) Bullying
- QUOTES:
1) ‘The compulsion to track down and kill’
2) ‘Don’t you want to be rescued?’, ‘But we want meat!’
3) ‘Two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate’.
4) ‘Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach’
5) ‘Roger… picked up a stone... And threw to miss’.
6) The mask ‘liberated’ Jack ‘from shame and self-consciousness’
Chapter 5 and 6:
- Ralph calls an assembly to lay down rules that the boys need to follow
- Reminds them of the fire and it’s importance and the boys’ failure to
understand the danger they are in
- Ralph and Jack dispute and Jack leaves with his hunters
- Ralph and Piggy act as parental figures and logically explain there cannot be
a beast on the island
- They also discuss the Beast and Simon suggests the beast is ‘within’ - but
the other boys fail to understand the message trying to be conveyed by Simon
- The parachutist is discovered by Samneric which enhances the fear of the
beast
- THEMES:
1) Fear
2) Disputes for power
3) Darkness within
- QUOTES:
1) ‘Things are breaking up, and I don’t understand why’
2) ‘The sun went down as if the light went out’
3) ‘[Jack] spoke against the rules - but nobody minded’
4) ‘Simon became inarticulate to express mankind’s essential illness’
5) ‘Soon the darkness was full of claws, full of the unknown and menace’
