LORD OF FLIES QUESTIONS CHAPTER 1
1-Allegory refers to a story or a poem that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning. The style of writing Lord of flies is an allegory of mankind. A rip in the forest caused by the crash landing of the boys’ plane on the island. The scar symbolizes that man, and his savage nature, destroys paradise merely by entering it.
2-At the start of the story the fair boy introduces himself as Ralph and the chubby boy introduces himself as Piggy but he hates when people call him Piggy. Ralph is known as the fair boy because He’s “fair” (1.1) and “attractive.” More than that, he has the conch. And he can blow it. Because the conch symbolizes power and order (see “Symbols” for more about that), Ralph gets a head start in the island power structure.
3-Piggy represents the adult type on the island. His physical traits are much like that of an older person: He is fat, he is near-sighted, his hair is thinning, he has medical conditions. … Piggy represents the rational side of man in “The Lord of the Flies. piggy is the most intelligent, rational boy in the group, and his glasses represent the power of science and intellectual endeavour in society. This symbolic significance is clear from the start of the novel, when the boys use the lenses from Piggy’s glasses to focus the sunlight and start a fire. When Jack’s hunters raid Ralph’s camp and steal the glasses, the savages effectively take the power to make fire, leaving Ralph’s group helpless.
4- The term generally applies to large snails whose shell has a high spire and a noticeable siphonal canal. Ralph and Piggy discover the conch shell on the beach at the start of the novel and use it to summon the boys together after the crash separates them. Used in this capacity, the conch shell becomes a powerful symbol of civilization and order in the novel. The shell effectively governs the boys’ meetings, for the boy who holds the shell holds the right to speak. In this regard, the shell is more than a symbol—it is an actual vessel of political legitimacy and democratic power.
5-The quote on page 14 symbolizes the rationalism of Ralph in identifying everyone and as a symbol of power as the conch shell on the beach at the start of the novel and use it to summon the boys together after the crash separates them. Used in this capacity, the conch shell becomes a powerful symbol of civilization and order in the novel. The shell effectively governs the boys’ meetings, for the boy who holds the shell holds the right to speak. In this regard, the shell is more than a symbol—it is an actual vessel of political legitimacy and democratic power.
6-Jack is described by Golding as “tall, thin, and bony; and his hair was red beneath the black cap. His face was crumpled and freckled, and ugly without silliness. Out of this face stared two light blue eyes, frustrated now, and turning, or ready to turn, to anger.”
Ralph’s conch-led Parliament represents democratic government. Jack’s tribalism represents autocratic government. Piggy represents the forces of rationalism, science, and intellect—which get ignored at society’s peril. Simon represents a kind of natural morality.
7-Both Ralph and Jack symbolize different types of government. Ralph symbolizes democracy. The boys elect Ralph as leader, “elect” being the operative word here. Ralph shares responsibilities with the other boys. He is a boy who leads by example. Ralph has a vision, as much as a boy can have, of a functioning society. Ralph even gives Jack control of a sort of army/hunting wing of government. Ralph evolves by utilizing the strengths of other boys, like Simon and Piggy, to help develop a better society and perhaps get rescued. Jack represents an autocratic dictatorship. He has no interest in society or rescue. At first Jack seems content to hunt and play his quasi-war games. Later, like many emerging democracies, the military leader is not content to work in a democracy. Jack takes control and becomes the autocratic dictator who leads by fear instead of consultation and example. By the end of the novel Jack sets himself up as sort of a God/King, “Jack, now a leader sits on a great log, painted and garlanded as an idol.” The civilized democracy of Ralph has long been forgotten.
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8-he shell is more than a symbol—it is an actual vessel of political legitimacy and democratic power. As the island civilization erodes and the boys descend into savagery, the conch shell loses its power and influence among them. At the start of the book the author describes the conch shell as a symbol of power therefore the author thinks that voting is a symbol for democratic insurrection providing equal power to every person in choosing who there leader is going to be so they feel valued and equal.
9-Ralph represents leadership, the properly socialized and civilized young man. He is attractive, charismatic, and decently intelligent. He demonstrates obvious common sense. Ralph is the one who conceives the meeting place, the fire, and the huts. He synthesizes and applies Piggy’s intellectualism, and he recognizes the false fears and superstitions as barriers to their survival. He is a diplomat and a natural leader. According to Golding the author o the Lord of flies we should always choose our leaders through either voting or through elections because it symbolizes democratic power and freedom to choose the ruler .
10-William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies is set on a tropical island full of lush greenery. The characters are all English schoolboys who have crash-landed on the island when their plane was shot down in a skirmish during World War II.
In chapter one, three of the main characters of the novel–Jack, Ralph, and Simon–go to the top of the mountain and do some exploring on the first morning after their landing. During their exploration, they discover some distinctive bushes.
The bushes were dark evergreen and aromatic and the many buds were waxen green and folded up against the light.
Simon speaks first and uses figurative language to call what he sees “candle buds”; he clearly appreciates the beauty and fragility of the buds. Jack is the next to respond to the bushes. He slashes at them with his knife and contemptuously dismisses them because they cannot provide them any food. Ralph also dismisses them, saying that they may look like candles but they cannot be lit. Clearly he lacks the imagination to see the buds figuratively, as Simon did.
The boys’ reactions to these bushes is symbolic of how they respond to the events
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11-When he is exploring the mountain with Simon and Ralph, Jack sure does a lot of talking about killing a pig, and he finally gets his big chance to do it. Of course he does not do the deed. After he fails to act, he makes stutters around and makes excuses. and things are a little uncomfortable between the three of them for a bit. While Jack does not ever actually admit exactly why he did not stab the pig, the other two boys know.
They knew very well why he hadn’t: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood.
Jack knows it, too. These are civilized boys, not savages, and stabbing a living thing with a knife is just not part of their lives. The thought of the consequences–terrible death and blood–is just too much and that is what keeps Jack from acting.
Of course, after that Jack does violently stab a tree with his knife, but he does so more out of anger, embarrassment, and bravado than out of any real change of heart. It is not the same, and they all know it. Jack determines that “next time there would be no mercy.” This is an ominous foreshadowing of things to come.
So, Jack is not able to kill the pig because killing is not something well bred and civilized people do, even young, impetuous boys. Jack is not hungry enough, desperate enough, or bloodthirsty enough to do it in the first chapter of the novel.
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