Symbols | Conflicts/Dilemmas | Characters | Motif/Themes | Random |
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What are flies?
These appear near death.
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What is the expedition to find Captain Kurtz?
Marlo accepts this choice.
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Who is Simon?
Very shy boy who has deep feelings for nature and is willing to work with the community.
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What is darkness?
Is the cause of having the inability to see.
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What are Kurtz's last words?
"The horror! The horror!"
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What is the Congo River?
The key to Africa for Europeans.
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What are Kurtz's last words?
Marlo refuses to do what is morally right and keeps this from Kurtz's fiance.
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Who is Marlo's Aunt?
Helps Marlo get his position as a steamboat pilot.
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What is the loss of innocence?
They use to be well-behaved, orderly boys but now they are cruel and want to kill.
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What is ululate?
To shrill, a wordless lamentation; wail.
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What is the conch shell?
To help govern; is partly a political legitamacy. Loses its power as it is diminishes.
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What is keeping the fire lit?
Ralph and Jack get into an argument over this and Jack decide to have his own tribe.
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Who is Kurtz's native mistress?
Leads a chant on the river bank.
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What is the Garden of Eden?
Simon view of the forest was first calming but now promotes evil.
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What is "Kill the pig, cut her throat. Bash her in?
This chant was sang when the boys reenacted killing the pig.
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What is The Lord of the Flies?
A power of evil that can evoke a beast within each human being.
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Who is Piggy?
Gets killed by a giant rock.
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Who is Jack?
The antagonist of the novel, becomes barbaric and cruel with the need to kill.
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Who is Jesus?
The other boys sacrifice Simon as a consequence.
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Who is the Harlequin?
He who states "This man has enlarged his mind."
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Who are women?
The keepers of naive illusions.
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Who are Marlo and Kurtz?
Confronted by the conflict of their images of themselves being "civilized" European.
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Who is Ralph?
Has the ability to try to coordinate the group to do certain duties to help survive.
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What is good vs. evil?
Life being a constant moral stuggle.
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Who is the manager?
The one who tries to sabotage Marlo's mission.
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