WorksheetsLord of the Flies Final 2021
Total questions: 42
Worksheet time: 14mins
The name given to the sow’s head that Jack’s gang impales on a stake and erects in the forest as an offering to the “beast.”
Simon
Roger
Jack
Lord of the Flies
William Golding participated in
World War 1
The Invasion of Normandy on D-Day
The Invasion of the Pacific
The Battle of the Pacific
In his novel, Golding tries to show that
Human beings are naturally good and society corupts them
Human beings are evil, but society constrains the corrupt
Human beings are shaped by elders
Human beings are shaped by the world around them
Golding stated that Lord of the Flies was “an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature.” Golding is saying:
The inherent evils of individuals require the constraints of society in order for social order to be maintained.
In order for social order to be maintained, individuals must be free in live without the constraints of society.
Society and the defects of human nature have no connection. People are free to be themselves.
Human beings will act in a way that has been programmed into them, despite any action by society.
What is an Allegory?
Has repeated consonance sounds.
Represents two words which sound a like but aren't spelled the same.
Something which has an underlying meaning or message, such as a moral.
What is an example of symbolism in Lord of the Flies
the name of the plane
the shape of the island
the jungle
the beast
What is symbolism?
The color white can represent peace
Using an object to represent a bigger idea
Universal ideas or morals
People use it everyday
What greatly influenced Golding's dark views about human nature?
War
A difficult childhood
Battles with society
English ideals
Who knocks the Lord of the Flies to the ground?
Ralph
Jack
Simon
Piggy
Who tells Jack where Ralph is hiding in chapter 12?
a littlun
Roger
Sam and Eric
Percival
What is the meaning of the Lord of the Flies' message to Simon?
Dreams can be more powerful than reality
If you ignore the beast, it will go away
The boys must kill off the weak links in order to survive
Evil is a trait inside of man
What powers does Jack credit to the beast after Simon’s murder?
Immorality and the ability to change shape.
Telepathy and the power to change shape.
Immorality and telepathy
Enormous strength and murderous cunning
Why do the boys kill Simon?
He wants to become the island leader.
He is a strange boy and that frightens them.
He told them that the beast was not real, it is just a dead pilot.
They thought he was the beast.
“Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. ”
Civilization and Savagery
Loss of Innocence
Power and Authority
The Nature of Evil
“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy” (207).
Civilization and Savagery
Loss of Innocence
Power and Authority
The Nature of Evil
“Ralph said no more, did nothing, stood looking down at the ashes at his feet. Jack was loud and active. He gave orders, sang, whistled, threw remarks at the silent Ralph-remarks that did not need an answer, and therefore could not invite a snub, and still Ralph was silent” (72).
Civilization and Savagery
Loss of Innocence
Weak vs. Strong
The Nature of Evil
“His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink” (69).
Savagery and Evil
Loss of Innocence
Weak vs. Strong
The Nature of Evil
“There isn’t anyone to help you. Only me. And I’m the Beast. . . . Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! . . . You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are the way they are?”
Savagery and Evil
Loss of Innocence
Weak vs. Strong
The Nature of Evil
“We need an assembly. Not for fun. Not for laughing and falling off the log-…’not for making jokes or for-‘ he lifted the conch in an effort to find the compelling word-‘for cleverness. Not for these things. But to put things straight” (79).
Civilization and Order
Loss of Innocence
Weak vs. Strong
The Nature of Evil
“Only Percival began to whimper with an eyeful of sand and Maurice hurried away. In his other life Maurice
had received chastisement for filling a younger eye with sand” (59).
Maurice hurries away when Percival begins to cry because Maurice
hit him with a thrown stone and felt sorry about it.
was bored and had more important things to do.
was reminded of home and began to feel homesick.
is still controlled by society’s rules.
