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11 Cards in this Set
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Belonging Metaphor |
“if it were light shame would burn them” “Memory of their new and shameful loyalty returned to them” |
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Belonging Second Person |
He bristles when Ralph doesn’t respect his getting meat for the group, only talking about the fire. The use of 2nd person when Jack “bristles”, highlights his exclusion |
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Culture Rhetorical question |
“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?”
The rhetorical questions of “what are we? Humans? or animals? Or savages?” demonstrates the civilised culture that ralph wishes everyone to conform to. |
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Culture Metaphor |
“liberation into savagery that the concealing brought” |
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Culture Generalisation |
"pack of british boys" |
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Place many |
Golding illustrates the importance of nation as a place to which individuals belong.
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Two aspects are noteworthy in this illustration. The use of the plural first person perspective binds together the group of schoolchildren in circumstances that are otherwise divisive. Thus belonging to place can unite people. Secondly, the repetition of "English" evokes patriotic notions, and reflects the positive feelings associated with a connection to place or country. |
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Place Simile |
“The island was scorched up like dead wood” |
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Place Repetition |
“The island was getting worse and worse.” The repetition of “worse and worse” implicate Raphs growing discontent with the island that he once highly appreciated. |
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Group Metaphor |
“For a moment the boys were a closed circuit of sympathy, with piggy outside” The metaphor of the boys being a “closed circuit” emphasises the exclusion of piggy, due to him not being in the enclosed loop. |
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Group Sibilance |
Sibilance links “sniggering” and “savages.” This reflects that the savages are defined by their scorn for civilisation. Their rejection of British culture and social etiquette is what binds them together.
Golding also establishes a contrast between the sounds of the two groups. Ralph’s call for attention is with the “conch.” He calls an “assembly.” The savages rely on an opposite method of expressing themselves. Their collective “loud derisive jeer” expresses a communal rejection of Ralph’s civilised demands for justice. |
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Alternative choice (easier/better)
Cultural belonging is manifest in shared cultural practices. Ralph and Piggy’s connection to their British culture is strained by isolation from Britain itself. By consequence, Piggy is “shapeless as a sack,” while Ralph confronts the savages. Through visual juxtaposition, where the savages are unified by “black and green” facepaint, with “hair” being all that distinguishes them, Golding demonstrates that cultural belonging is largely reflected in an ability to share cultural traits.sk |
