Lord of the Flies: 12 essential quotations you NEED to know!

In this episode, we review 12 essential quotations from Lord of the Flies, ahead of your Paper 2 English Literature exam!

Featured quotations:

1. Jack: “We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages.” — Ch2
2. Roger: “Roger stooped… threw it to miss.” — Ch4
3. Roger/civilisation: “Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life.” — Ch4
4. Jack: “The mask was a thing on its own…” — Ch4
5. Simon: “Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.” — Ch5
6. Narrator: “The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.” — Ch5
7. Jack: “Bollocks to the rules! We’re strong—we hunt!” — Ch5
8. Narrator: “The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering.” — Ch7
9. Lord of the Flies: “Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!” — Ch8
10. Narrator: “At once the crowd surged after it… screamed, struck, bit, tore.” — Ch9
11. Narrator: “The conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.” — Ch11
12. Narrator: “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.” — Ch12