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Lord of the Flies

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Lord of the Flies	comment	Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel written by William Golding. It is a Deconstruction of the Kids' Wilderness Epic and Robinsonade. A plane full of British schoolboys crashes on a Deserted Island, and the darkness of humanity spills forth as they turn against each other.It's had three cinematic adaptations (a British one in 1963, an American one in 1990, and a little-known Filipino adaptation called Alkitrang Dugo in 1975 that had boys and girls; a second American adaptation was announced in 2019, to be directed by Luca Guadanigno) and is referenced and parodied in various media. It is very popular for English Literature assignments in High School on both sides of the Pond and Down Under, thanks to its themes about morality and authority, and its symbolism, which is extremely easy to spot, but open to many different interpretations.The best-known example (and possibly the Trope Maker) of a Teenage Wasteland, even when all the kids are under the age of fifteen.Now with a character sheet.
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Lord of the Flies / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Lord of the Flies / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: It's far from pretty. From within the adventure on the island several characters do not survive regardless of how much focus they get in the narrative.
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Lord of the Flies / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
Lord of the Flies / int_141a6acb	comment	Madness Mantra: "Percival Wemys Madison, The Vicarage, Harcourt St. Anthony, Hants, telephone, telephone, teleâ€“..." "Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!"
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Lord of the Flies / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Lord of the Flies / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Piggy starts to break down when Jack and his choir steal his glasses to start fires. Without those glasses, Piggy is virtually blind. He then gets desperate enough to start begging Jack to join him with promises to share those glasses for his vision and for starting fires. Roger ultimately kills him with a rock in the middle of Piggy's pleas for the return of his glasses. Ralph falls into one at the end (after the Navy saves him just in time from being executed by Jack) due to the trauma he has from being on the island, losing his friend Piggy, and nearly being killed himself.
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Lord of the Flies / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Lord of the Flies / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Piggy specifically tells the boys he didn't want to be called by that nickname, which they wouldn't even have known about otherwise. What did he expect?
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Lord of the Flies / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
Lord of the Flies / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Ralph describes being on an island "Like a book." Which causes many of the littluns to name out titles such as "Treasure Island" and similar stories. Just how Wrong Genre Savvy they are about this becomes increasingly apparent as the book goes on.
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Lord of the Flies / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Lord of the Flies / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The title comes from when Simon hallucinates that a dead pig's head covered in flies is talking to him.
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Lord of the Flies / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
Lord of the Flies / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Roger. And likely Jack, after a while. It's clear he didn't arrive on the island as a sociopath, but it seems his psyche eventually descended into sociopathy.
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Lord of the Flies / int_1badfb3a	type	The Heart
Lord of the Flies / int_1badfb3a	comment	Ralph and Piggy can't get the boys to work together for their own good when faced against the savage impulses that Jack champions, Simon, The Heart, spends all his time alone until he has an epiphany about "the monster" and is unable to tell the others about it, and in a subtle but telling passage, when the twins, the last boys who support Ralph and Piggy, are bound by Jack and the others, the text describes their meager protests as "protested out of the heart of civilization" with lines like "Oh, I say!" and the like. This is contrasted with the brutal directness and action of Jack and his followers, and how easily it overwhelms the good.
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Lord of the Flies / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Lord of the Flies / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Samneric are Sam and Eric. However, they're so often together that the story considers them as one character.
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Lord of the Flies / int_1f862cf	type	Dare to Be Badass
Lord of the Flies / int_1f862cf	comment	Dare to Be Badass: Piggy, especially considering he's the most Non-Action Guy of the survivors...
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Lord of the Flies / int_20215dc6	type	Primal Fear
Lord of the Flies / int_20215dc6	comment	Primal Fear: What gradually leads the boys into becoming superstitious and violent savages.
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Lord of the Flies / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Lord of the Flies / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: The kids initially think that the story will be like a Kids' Wilderness Epic and Robinsonade, and that they're "going to have fun on this island". However, they are very wrong about that. Without any authority around them, the kids quickly devolve into savage brutality.
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Lord of the Flies / int_21889507	type	A House Divided
Lord of the Flies / int_21889507	comment	A House Divided: The boys quickly devolve into two groups, a small one led by Ralph, and a much bigger one led by Jack. While Ralph understands that the boys wish to have fun (let alone he even encouraged having fun a few times), the real reason he's pissed at Jack and splits ways with him is because Jack made them miss a chance to signal an adult to go home.
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Lord of the Flies / int_222446a4	type	Headache of Doom
Lord of the Flies / int_222446a4	comment	Headache of Doom: All of the boys get headaches as a result of the humidity on the island, which is foreshadowing how quickly they're going to lose their minds. Simon in particular mentions suffering a headache not long before encountering the Lord of the Flies himself.
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Lord of the Flies / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Lord of the Flies / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: A unique variation. The book's original opening, which explained the war and the plane crash in more detail, was cut from the final print (you can still read it if you plan to visit the University of Exeter where it is held). The 1963 film, however, restores the prologue by telling it through photographs, which depicts the plane being struck by lightning during a storm. Some stage adaptations begin with a voice over mentioning the war in passing.
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Lord of the Flies / int_23e32a30	type	Genre Deconstruction
Lord of the Flies / int_23e32a30	comment	Genre Deconstruction: Takes a sledgehammer to the Kids' Wilderness Epic. The whole story is a depiction of what would really happen if a group of (city) kids are trapped on an island with no adult supervision. However, this has to be taken with a grain of salt as the author based it on his very negative experience of being a teacher to children who never had to worry about basic necessities, which may explain why things went as extreme as they did. Ralph has trouble governing the other boys because they're either scared, power-hungry or just plain irresponsible. The kids goof off during one of their tasks and the group misses the first boat, the younger kids also start believing there's a monster on the island and Jack starts going crazy due to a newfound love of hunting. The monster in question is revealed to be a dead fighter pilot, the boys are frightened of it because they've never seen a human corpse before. The closest thing to a supernatural element in the story is the conversation between Simon and the pig head (which calls itself "The Lord of the Flies"), which is only possible because Simon was hallucinating. When the boys work themselves into a frenzy, they unwittingly kill Simon. Who came to disprove the existence of a monster by charging into the feast and screaming, which causes the boys to mistake him for the monster. One of the boys, Roger, is harboring psychopathic urges, and with no adults to rein him in, he starts entertaining the idea of killing one of the boys, which then leads to the death of Piggy.
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Lord of the Flies / int_289008dc	type	Incorruptible Pure Pureness
Lord of the Flies / int_289008dc	comment	Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Simon, who is usually described by literary critics as a Christ-like figure.
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Lord of the Flies / int_2a015a74	type	Beauty Equals Goodness
Lord of the Flies / int_2a015a74	comment	Beauty Equals Goodness: In the book, The Hero Ralph is described as fair-haired, athletic, charismatic and handsome; Rival Turned Evil Jack is a redhead with freckles and is "ugly without silliness". The movie averts this. Jack is a perfectly pleasant-looking boy.
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Lord of the Flies / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Lord of the Flies / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: The officer who rescues them just as Ralph is about to be killed remarks, "Jolly good show. Like The Coral Island," with said book being one of the cheerier Rousseau Was Right novels.
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Lord of the Flies / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
Lord of the Flies / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: Jack and his choir and eventually almost every boy on the island turn into savage beasts in their obsession with killing the beast.
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Lord of the Flies / int_2fb3170e	type	Enemy Within
Lord of the Flies / int_2fb3170e	comment	Enemy Within: "Maybe there is no monster on the island. Maybe... it's just us..." The Lord of the Flies outright states this to Simon in a vision.
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Lord of the Flies / int_318d4432	type	Tropical Island Adventure
Lord of the Flies / int_318d4432	comment	Tropical Island Adventure: The book is about a group of children being stranded on a tropical island and trying to survive.
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Lord of the Flies / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Lord of the Flies / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Jack does have the capacity for guilt and shame for some of his Kick the Dog actions, though he buries his guilt with anger, making him likely to Kick the Dog again. One example of this is after the first hunt, he leaves Piggy without any food at first as a display of dominance (while intending to give him some eventually), but then, when Piggy asks him about it and brings the issue into the open, he flatly refuses to give him any. However, when Simon gives Piggy his share, Jack's deteriorating conscience still won't let the unselfish Simon go without, so he gives him more, and then furiously shouts at Simon to eat it. Also, he is as shocked by the accidental killing of Simon as all the others, and his shouting at Roger after he kills Piggy for something unrelated could suggest he actually was horrified by what happened, and was trying to find some other excuse to be angry.
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Lord of the Flies / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
Lord of the Flies / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: The boys were on a plane fleeing the soon-to-be-nuked UK. Though the home country is apparently in dire straits, the British Navy is still out doing its job as best as possible. May have verged into Cosy Catastrophe if it wasn't for the fact that mention of the war was a very minor framing device with little direct bearing on the story.
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Lord of the Flies / int_350df8dc	type	Anti-Intellectualism
Lord of the Flies / int_350df8dc	comment	Anti-Intellectualism: With the exception of Ralph and Piggy, making a strong logical argument tends to be the quickest way to lose your audience when the oldest among them is fourteen, until eventually even trying to do so is an automatic failure; when Jack completely splits from Ralph, the most damning condemnation he can think of is that Ralph is "like Piggy. He says things like Piggy" and this may indeed have been what convinces so many people to join him. The book itself looks at both sides; while firmly in favour of civilisation itself, it is clear from the beginning that Piggy, the most intellectual, never has a chance of being leader and Ralph, the second-best in terms of intelligence, is actually the best candidate. Ralph also notes repeatedly that being able to think about what they should do is no use to anyone if you don't have the strength and charisma to make it happen.
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Lord of the Flies / int_3577923b	type	Murder by Mistake
Lord of the Flies / int_3577923b	comment	Murder by Mistake: Simon's death at the hands of the other boys.
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Lord of the Flies / int_37ad8d62	type	Heavy Sleeper
Lord of the Flies / int_37ad8d62	comment	Heavy Sleeper: All of the boys are somehow able to sleep right through the aerial battle (the one that results in the dead pilot landing on the island) that's going on right above their heads.
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Lord of the Flies / int_38d12399	type	Teens Are Monsters
Lord of the Flies / int_38d12399	comment	Teens Are Monsters: While some of them are in their pre-teens, they're all very mean-spirited, especially toward Piggy.
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Lord of the Flies / int_3ac583f4	type	SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism
Lord of the Flies / int_3ac583f4	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Way, way down on the cynical end of the scale. It's big on the Kids Are Cruel/Teens Are Monsters and nothing the "good" characters do yields good results. Just ask Simon and Piggy... oh wait.
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Lord of the Flies / int_3ac8ba6a	type	Ignorant About Fire
Lord of the Flies / int_3ac8ba6a	comment	Ignorant About Fire: The boys light a large fire in the middle of some dry grass. When the grass around them starts to burn, they need a few minutes to realize this.
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Lord of the Flies / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
Lord of the Flies / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: The Beast is strongly implied to be a product of the boys' own natures.
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Lord of the Flies / int_3eb8ba12	type	Description Porn
Lord of the Flies / int_3eb8ba12	comment	Description Porn: One major complaint about the book is that several paragraphs in a row can do nothing but describe the setting of the island. Word of God says this is to make it easier for the reader to visualize the characters' environment, as it punctuates the relativeness of just how hopeless their situation is. For some readers it works very well, for others it's alienating or even distracting.
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Lord of the Flies / int_3f71c185	type	Teenage Wasteland
Lord of the Flies / int_3f71c185	comment	Teenage Wasteland: The children have to figure out how to govern themselves on the island. It doesn't go well. Possibly the Trope Maker.
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Lord of the Flies / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
Lord of the Flies / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: This is what turns the ending into a Bittersweet Ending instead of a Downer Ending. Ralph is rescued by the Royal Navy at the last minute, effectively out of the blue. This was intentional, as the Naval Officer is important in rounding off the themes of the story; and the sudden abruptness with which he appears, with absolutely no foreshadowing, is crucial to highlighting the rapidity with which the appearance of an authority can change everything.
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Lord of the Flies / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Lord of the Flies / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: A Deus ex Machina prevents a Downer Ending, but the psychological scars remain. Just as Jack and the mob are about to kill Ralph, an officer of the Royal Navy appears on the island, which shocks all of the boys back to their senses as they realize that they're about to be rescued from the island. The boys all end up crying as they realize what they almost did, and how everything on the island was just leading up to brutality and death for no reason at all. In this case, the sudden appearance of the naval officer was intentional, as it was meant to highlight how the sudden appearance of authority changes everything.
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Lord of the Flies / int_417c78f5	type	Robinsonade
Lord of the Flies / int_417c78f5	comment	Robinsonade: Though depicts a Man vs Man story rather than one of Man vs Nature. While the island does have fish and wild pigs to help sustain the boys, the protagonists are still in grave danger because of their inability to save their failing government and because Ralph is in danger of being killed by the same boys he tried to govern.
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Lord of the Flies / int_435eafe8	type	Follow the White Rabbit
Lord of the Flies / int_435eafe8	comment	Follow the White Rabbit: In the 1990 film, one of the boys in Jackâ€™s hunting party wanders off to follow an iguana into a cave, leading to him to encounter the delirious Captain Benson and mistaking him to be a monster, thus kicking off the filmâ€™s beast subplot.
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Lord of the Flies / int_43dc74d0	type	Sensitive Guy and Manly Man
Lord of the Flies / int_43dc74d0	comment	Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Ralph and Jack. The blonde Ralph is mostly calm, sensible, collected and usually avoids confrontation, while the red-haired Jack is loudmouthed, aggressive, even downright brutal, and loves confrontation. They even practice different activities, as Ralph usually stays in the same place, watching over the other boys and trying to assure them their safety, while Jack runs around the entire island and is obsessed with hunting and killing animals. Also, Simon and Piggy are the sensitive guys compared to the rest of the boys.
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Lord of the Flies / int_445bc425	type	GreyAndGreyMorality
Lord of the Flies / int_445bc425	comment	Grey-and-Grey Morality: All the boys (except Simon) show great potential for cruelty, sadism and tendency to unite with each other by bullying the vulnerable. Ralph takes out his frustrations on Piggy several times, and Piggy joins in the other boys in denigrating Simon when he tries to point out that maybe the Beast is an Enemy Within, despite it being exactly the sort of thoughtful point he gets mocked for making himself. However, rather than depicting them as nasty hypocrites who are little better than Jack or Roger, the book uses this to show that every person, no matter how admirable they usually are, suffers from similar weaknesses.
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Lord of the Flies / int_46e53efd	type	Screams Like a Little Girl
Lord of the Flies / int_46e53efd	comment	Screams Like a Little Girl: In the 1990 film, Larry does this when he encounters the beast (who in actuality is the delirious Captain Benson) in the cave.
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Lord of the Flies / int_4733b5a5	type	Saying Too Much
Lord of the Flies / int_4733b5a5	comment	Saying Too Much: Roger asks one of the boys what his name is, and he replies that he doesn't care what they call him, as long as they don't call him "Piggy" as he was called in school. Had he never revealed that, none of the boys on the island would have called him that in the first place.
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Lord of the Flies / int_47741ade	type	Parachute in a Tree
Lord of the Flies / int_47741ade	comment	Parachute in a Tree: The 'monster' is actually a dead parachuter.
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Lord of the Flies / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Lord of the Flies / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: All the kids to some extent given what they go through on the island. In the case of Piggy and Simon, Kill the Cutie.
Lord of the Flies / int_4b316d47	featureApplicability	1.0
Lord of the Flies / int_4b316d47	featureConfidence	1.0
Lord of the Flies	hasFeature	Lord of the Flies / int_4b316d47
Lord of the Flies / int_4d657001	type	Blow That Horn
Lord of the Flies / int_4d657001	comment	Blow That Horn: Ralph and Piggy sound a conch shell to gather the boys together. The eventual crushing of the shell alongside Piggy symbolizes the descent into savagery of the boys.
Lord of the Flies / int_4d657001	featureApplicability	1.0
Lord of the Flies / int_4d657001	featureConfidence	1.0
Lord of the Flies	hasFeature	Lord of the Flies / int_4d657001
Lord of the Flies / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Lord of the Flies / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: In-universe, when Jack and his hunters return from their first hunt (letting the signal fire go out in the process) and finding Ralph by the ashes. When Ralph asks Samneric what Jack intends to do with him if they successfully hunt him down.
Lord of the Flies / int_4e7c4536	featureApplicability	1.0
Lord of the Flies / int_4e7c4536	featureConfidence	1.0
Lord of the Flies	hasFeature	Lord of the Flies / int_4e7c4536
Lord of the Flies / int_4f773434	type	Wise Beyond Their Years
Lord of the Flies / int_4f773434	comment	Wise Beyond Their Years: Ralph, Piggy and Simon are all the smartest characters, often trying to make logical arguments about how to survive. However, the Anti-Intellectualism on display means that they quickly lose their audience.
Lord of the Flies / int_4f773434	featureApplicability	1.0
Lord of the Flies / int_4f773434	featureConfidence	1.0
Lord of the Flies	hasFeature	Lord of the Flies / int_4f773434
Lord of the Flies / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Lord of the Flies / int_5313c266	comment	This completes the Book Ends begun when the children first realize they're alone on a tropical island.
Lord of the Flies / int_5313c266	featureApplicability	1.0
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Lord of the Flies	hasFeature	Lord of the Flies / int_5313c266
Lord of the Flies / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Lord of the Flies / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Roger becomes this to Jack as his tribe's executioner and torturer.
Lord of the Flies / int_53f5119f	featureApplicability	1.0
Lord of the Flies / int_53f5119f	featureConfidence	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_5556c7c1	type	X on a Stick
Lord of the Flies / int_5556c7c1	comment	A sow's head on a pike, slowly decaying, serves as the metaphor for the decay of children's morals, thus making them closer to hoglike greed.
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Lord of the Flies / int_5556c7c1	featureConfidence	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
Lord of the Flies / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: Jack is stated to be ugly in the novel, however, he is good looking in both the 1963 and 1990 version.
Lord of the Flies / int_557838d1	featureApplicability	1.0
Lord of the Flies / int_557838d1	featureConfidence	1.0
Lord of the Flies	hasFeature	Lord of the Flies / int_557838d1
Lord of the Flies / int_557dabce	type	Deserted Island
Lord of the Flies / int_557dabce	comment	Deserted Island: The stranded boys are the only humans on the island where the story is set.
Lord of the Flies / int_557dabce	featureApplicability	1.0
Lord of the Flies / int_557dabce	featureConfidence	1.0
Lord of the Flies	hasFeature	Lord of the Flies / int_557dabce
Lord of the Flies / int_5f3d3c83	type	Psycho Supporter
Lord of the Flies / int_5f3d3c83	comment	Psycho Supporter: Roger.
Lord of the Flies / int_5f3d3c83	featureApplicability	1.0
Lord of the Flies / int_5f3d3c83	featureConfidence	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_5fb86231	type	Half-Hearted Henchman
Lord of the Flies / int_5fb86231	comment	Half-Hearted Henchman: Some of those who join Jack's side only do so out of fear of being killed by him. Piggy even suggests to Ralph (when they're the only ones left of their team) that they might as well join him too or else they'll get killed like Simon was. Later on in the book, when Jack's group murders Piggy and is searching for Ralph to kill him too, the twins who were formerly on Ralph's team find him, but they don't blow his cover since they don't want to kill him, and never wanted to in the first place.
Lord of the Flies / int_5fb86231	featureApplicability	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Lord of the Flies / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Most of the littleuns. Played for Drama because they spend most of their time eating fruit, which causes them to suffer from persistent stomach cramps and diarrhea since they never bother to check whether the fruit is ripe.
Lord of the Flies / int_5fcedca	featureApplicability	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_60e49895	type	The Leader
Lord of the Flies / int_60e49895	comment	Piggy more or less symbolizes this. He is the only one who keeps any kind of straight mind, but his severe physical handicaps and his own nerdiness prevent him from asserting these ideals. And when his glasses are stolen from him, it symbolizes the collapse of order as he is left helpless. The fact that he then acts as a standard-bearer for the conch while having to be led by The Leader and flanked by the twins with spears suggests that civilisation is useless without the vision to go forward and the ability to defend itself.
Lord of the Flies / int_60e49895	featureApplicability	1.0
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Lord of the Flies	hasFeature	Lord of the Flies / int_60e49895
Lord of the Flies / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Lord of the Flies / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: All the boys in general except Piggy, but Jack in particular. In Roger's case it's a short trip.
Lord of the Flies / int_62434fe2	featureApplicability	1.0
Lord of the Flies / int_62434fe2	featureConfidence	1.0
Lord of the Flies	hasFeature	Lord of the Flies / int_62434fe2
Lord of the Flies / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Lord of the Flies / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: When Jack allows the fire to go out just before a ship passes the island, preventing their rescue for the sake of fulfilling his obsession with hunting.
Lord of the Flies / int_627264e0	featureApplicability	1.0
Lord of the Flies / int_627264e0	featureConfidence	1.0
Lord of the Flies	hasFeature	Lord of the Flies / int_627264e0
Lord of the Flies / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
Lord of the Flies / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: Big time, especially with Roger. The islanders are particularly mean to Piggy.
Lord of the Flies / int_63389b0b	featureApplicability	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_65bc92fc	type	Four-Temperament Ensemble
Lord of the Flies / int_65bc92fc	comment	Four-Temperament Ensemble: Ralph and Jack are Choleric, Piggy is Melancholic, Samneric are Sanguine, and Simon is Phlegmatic.
Lord of the Flies / int_65bc92fc	featureApplicability	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Lord of the Flies / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Three of the main characters are named directly after Coral Island characters. The fourth? Simon from Peterkin.
Lord of the Flies / int_6bda9a30	featureApplicability	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_6dcbe9aa	type	Deconstructive Parody
Lord of the Flies / int_6dcbe9aa	comment	Deconstructive Parody: It was actually written as a parody, though the specific form of Kids Wilderness Robinsonade that it was attacking is something of a Forgotten Trope. It is also considered a rather brutal skewering of the pip-pip-cheerio book The Coral Island.
Lord of the Flies / int_6dcbe9aa	featureApplicability	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_6f7c8268	type	Waif Prophet
Lord of the Flies / int_6f7c8268	comment	Waif Prophet: Simon is a male example.
Lord of the Flies / int_6f7c8268	featureApplicability	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_72073a3	type	Isle of Giant Horrors
Lord of the Flies / int_72073a3	comment	Isle of Giant Horrors: Played with. Most of the boys think there is a physical beast and by the end of the book start to almost worship it, but there is no "real" beast. The idea of the beast is actually used to represent humanity's innate evil.
Lord of the Flies / int_72073a3	featureApplicability	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_72cc2b00	type	The Dividual
Lord of the Flies / int_72cc2b00	comment	The Dividual: Sam and Eric, who are commonly referred to with one name (Samneric) and are recognized as one person in the assembly. The silliness of this gets mentioned late in the book by Piggy, who notes that they take one shift at keeping the fire lit, even though they should split up and take two.
Lord of the Flies / int_72cc2b00	featureApplicability	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
Lord of the Flies / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: In the 1990 film, the boys are recruits from military school. Therefore, they are able to adapt to the island much better than their book counterparts.
Lord of the Flies / int_736d791f	featureApplicability	1.0
Lord of the Flies / int_736d791f	featureConfidence	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_7426582d	type	Token Minority
Lord of the Flies / int_7426582d	comment	Token Minority: Rapper and Pablo in the 1990 film are the only boys on the island who are of African American and Hispanic American descent.
Lord of the Flies / int_7426582d	featureApplicability	1.0
Lord of the Flies / int_7426582d	featureConfidence	1.0
Lord of the Flies	hasFeature	Lord of the Flies / int_7426582d
Lord of the Flies / int_7eb2bc15	type	Ambiguous Time Period
Lord of the Flies / int_7eb2bc15	comment	Ambiguous Time Period: The book does not give an exact time period beyond basic 20 Minutes into the Future though it cannot be earlier than October of 1952 when the book was written or even 1954 when it was published. Some say the book is set during World War II. The 1990 film gives a more definitive setting: the late 80s.
Lord of the Flies / int_7eb2bc15	featureApplicability	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_7efd2e30	type	Expository Hairstyle Change
Lord of the Flies / int_7efd2e30	comment	Expository Hairstyle Change: As the months pass, all the boys' hair becomes long and shaggy (except for the wise Piggy's), and, especially for our hero, Ralph, starts obscuring their vision.
Lord of the Flies / int_7efd2e30	featureApplicability	1.0
Lord of the Flies / int_7efd2e30	featureConfidence	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
Lord of the Flies / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: Ralph in the 1990 film. In the book and 1963 film, he's the one who spills the beans about Piggy's Embarrassing Nickname and takes part in killing Simon along with the other boys. In the 1990 film, it's the twins who reveal Piggy's Embarrassing Nickname and he doesn't take part in the melee.
Lord of the Flies / int_82a64c4b	featureApplicability	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_82b78473	type	Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass
Lord of the Flies / int_82b78473	comment	Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass: Piggy's glasses are used to set fires, despite the above mention of Artistic License.
Lord of the Flies / int_82b78473	featureApplicability	1.0
Lord of the Flies / int_82b78473	featureConfidence	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_8370a793	type	Mature Work, Child Protagonists
Lord of the Flies / int_8370a793	comment	Mature Work, Child Protagonists: A group of British schoolboys crashes on a Deserted Island where, instead of engaging in a traditional Robinsonade, they devolve into brutality and turn against one another. And yes, nowadays it is a set book at many schoolsnote Even then, it's usually assigned for high school students due to its mature themes. but originally it has not been aimed at kids.
Lord of the Flies / int_8370a793	featureApplicability	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Lord of the Flies / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Jack and Ralph, respectively.
Lord of the Flies / int_8411ab92	featureApplicability	1.0
Lord of the Flies / int_8411ab92	featureConfidence	1.0
Lord of the Flies	hasFeature	Lord of the Flies / int_8411ab92
Lord of the Flies / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
Lord of the Flies / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: The pig's head on a stick is suspiciously human-like, especially at a distance. It's about the height of a person... only with a pig's head instead of a human head. Considering it was quite dark when the boys first put it up, no wonder they ran away.
Lord of the Flies / int_851dda8f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Lord of the Flies / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Nuclear War?: Remember when Piggy mentioned the atom bomb being dropped on England in the first chapter of the book? Well, contrary to what Fanon tells you, itâ€™s very unlikely that the boys will be going back to their families any time soon and the book leaves it ambiguous as to whether or not the war is over.
Lord of the Flies / int_863fa679	featureApplicability	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Lord of the Flies / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: A number of those who side with Ralph are closer to the white side, but they're certainly not saints. The only character who is really above this is Simon. His foil, Roger, is established as someone who's pretty far on the black side.
Lord of the Flies / int_8767b1f3	featureApplicability	1.0
Lord of the Flies / int_8767b1f3	featureConfidence	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Lord of the Flies / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: One of the many theories about what the beast really is. At first it's bad enough that there might be a beast on the island, and the boys argue over the beast's possible form. Until little Percival drops this bombshell:
Lord of the Flies / int_8774fb47	featureApplicability	1.0
Lord of the Flies / int_8774fb47	featureConfidence	1.0
Lord of the Flies	hasFeature	Lord of the Flies / int_8774fb47
Lord of the Flies / int_87ede6fc	type	That Man Is Dead
Lord of the Flies / int_87ede6fc	comment	That Man Is Dead: Implied when Percival Wemys Madison, who has made of his name and address his Survival Mantra, forgets it exactly at the moment he meets someone who can really help him.
Lord of the Flies / int_87ede6fc	featureApplicability	1.0
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Lord of the Flies	hasFeature	Lord of the Flies / int_87ede6fc
Lord of the Flies / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Lord of the Flies / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: Most of the book. Jack insists on being called "Merridew" and leads a choir. Eventually, after he discovers how to kill, his group degenerates into savagery. Sound similar to the story of anyone we know? Oh, and the spectral corpse on the mountain that terrifies everyone is the Shadow of War, harmless in fact (the pilot is dead), but terrifying to look at.
Lord of the Flies / int_916c72b3	featureApplicability	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Lord of the Flies / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: After spending the entire book descending further down the pit of insanity, the appearance of the Naval Officer at the very end to come rescue them only crystallizes exactly how far the boys have fallen. It makes all the events of the book aside from the initial plane crash seem exceptionally small, petty, and ultimately meaningless in the face of such a stark reminder of the order and culture everyone so casually sloughed off.
Lord of the Flies / int_9591377d	featureApplicability	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Lord of the Flies / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Jack Merridew leads the hunters in revolt, causes all of the children to descend into savages, and is ultimately responsible for all of the conflict in the final act.
Lord of the Flies / int_970c790a	featureApplicability	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
Lord of the Flies / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: The nation(s) that started the war that led to the evacuation that got the boys stranded on the island in the first place.
Lord of the Flies / int_9b06e314	featureApplicability	1.0
Lord of the Flies / int_9b06e314	featureConfidence	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_9c5e78d0	type	Kill the Cutie
Lord of the Flies / int_9c5e78d0	comment	Kill the Cutie: Simon and Piggy.
Lord of the Flies / int_9c5e78d0	featureApplicability	1.0
Lord of the Flies / int_9c5e78d0	featureConfidence	1.0
Lord of the Flies	hasFeature	Lord of the Flies / int_9c5e78d0
Lord of the Flies / int_9c89a71a	type	Tribal Face Paint
Lord of the Flies / int_9c89a71a	comment	Tribal Face Paint: Featured with Jack and the hunters. One of the chapters is, after all, named "Painted Faces and Long Hair".
Lord of the Flies / int_9c89a71a	featureApplicability	1.0
Lord of the Flies / int_9c89a71a	featureConfidence	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_9ca40a35	type	Naming Conventions
Lord of the Flies / int_9ca40a35	comment	Naming Conventions: At that time and place, the pupils should be on a Last-Name Basis and Jack insists on "Merridew", but everyone quickly accepts First-Name Basis, except for Piggy, whose nickname started out as an insult. Due to this, none of the important characters has his full name revealed except for Jack. And, to a lesser extent, the littlun with the birthmark.
Lord of the Flies / int_9ca40a35	featureApplicability	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_9ccedbed	type	Single-Minded Twins
Lord of the Flies / int_9ccedbed	comment	Single-Minded Twins: Sort of. Sam and Eric are separate people, but separately, they can't do anything. They are treated as one person: Samneric.
Lord of the Flies / int_9ccedbed	featureApplicability	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Lord of the Flies / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In hindsight, the arrival of the Royal Navy at the book's climax is predicted early in the book, though none present could have guessed the circumstances under which that would happen. In the 1990s film adaptation, the ritual we see at the feast foreshadows that there must always be a pig, or better yet a beast to be hunted, even if one of the boys has to play the role. Their new society cannot exist without one. Immediately after, Simon is mistaken for a monster and killed, followed by Piggy some days later, with the final target being Ralph.
Lord of the Flies / int_9d12bbc1	featureApplicability	1.0
Lord of the Flies / int_9d12bbc1	featureConfidence	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
Lord of the Flies / int_9e1e14ea	comment	Ambition Is Evil: Jack. His desire to be leader is evident from the outset.
Lord of the Flies / int_9e1e14ea	featureApplicability	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_9f81bd21	type	Stealth Parody
Lord of the Flies / int_9f81bd21	comment	Stealth Parody: The author hated the "British boys able to survive with a Stiff Upper Lip" stories that were popular at the time, and this book was meant to be a realistic parody at best, and a Take That! at worst.
Lord of the Flies / int_9f81bd21	featureApplicability	1.0
Lord of the Flies / int_9f81bd21	featureConfidence	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Lord of the Flies / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Ralph, Piggy, Sam and Eric when they realize they and the other boys killed Simon.
Lord of the Flies / int_a1b141f4	featureApplicability	1.0
Lord of the Flies / int_a1b141f4	featureConfidence	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_a3673c4c	type	It Gets Easier
Lord of the Flies / int_a3673c4c	comment	It Gets Easier: Roger escalates from hitting "littluns" with rocks to participating in Simon's kill in mass hysteria to outright murdering Piggy.
Lord of the Flies / int_a3673c4c	featureApplicability	1.0
Lord of the Flies / int_a3673c4c	featureConfidence	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
Lord of the Flies / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: In the novel, Ralph has light hair and Jack has red hair. The movies have Jack as a blond, Ralph as a brunette. Simon is blond in the 1963 film, as opposed to having dark hair in the book.
Lord of the Flies / int_a4414a05	featureApplicability	1.0
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Lord of the Flies / int_a651f5a6	type	Good Is Impotent
Lord of the Flies / int_a651f5a6	comment	Good Is Impotent: A major theme of the book. Ralph and Piggy can't get the boys to work together for their own good when faced against the savage impulses that Jack champions, Simon, The Heart, spends all his time alone until he has an epiphany about "the monster" and is unable to tell the others about it, and in a subtle but telling passage, when the twins, the last boys who support Ralph and Piggy, are bound by Jack and the others, the text describes their meager protests as "protested out of the heart of civilization" with lines like "Oh, I say!" and the like. This is contrasted with the brutal directness and action of Jack and his followers, and how easily it overwhelms the good. Piggy more or less symbolizes this. He is the only one who keeps any kind of straight mind, but his severe physical handicaps and his own nerdiness prevent him from asserting these ideals. And when his glasses are stolen from him, it symbolizes the collapse of order as he is left helpless. The fact that he then acts as a standard-bearer for the conch while having to be led by The Leader and flanked by the twins with spears suggests that civilisation is useless without the vision to go forward and the ability to defend itself. While Piggy represents the goodness of lawful civilization, Simon represents the inherent goodness in humanity by being the one boy who's compassionate, cares for the "littluns", is actually nice to Piggy and he's introspective enough to look within himself and self-regulate. He's also isolated for being "weird", and suffers from debilitating fainting spells and implied epilepsy. He's the only boy who reaches an epiphany about the true evil in the island and uncovers the truth about "the beast" only to be killed right after in a blind frenzy, and he's quickly forgotten, symbolising how goodness is forgotten in favour of savagery and alluviation of guilt.
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Lord of the Flies / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Lord of the Flies / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Jack, Roger, and their followers receive no punishment for killing Simon and Piggy.
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Lord of the Flies / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Lord of the Flies / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: Piggy, whose nickname started out as an insult. Ralph never bothers to learn his real name.
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Lord of the Flies / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Lord of the Flies / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: The adults (at least the ones off-screen) are very inane and negligent regarding how they handled the future of the boys. They just dump an entire class of boys into a plane without any adults supervising them (unless the adult marshals on the plane died?) and you can tell they're not putting much effort in investigating what has become of the boys. The plane that did come near the island doesn't even see Ralph trying to signal it. Both the beginning and end of the novel suggests that adults are preoccupied with their own wars and are not much better from juvenile boys. The one adult in the 1990 film (the plane's pilot) can qualify as this. Thanks to getting injured in the plane crash, he spends most of his screentime in a delirious state.
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Lord of the Flies / int_ac1e30d8	type	Red Scare
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Lord of the Flies / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Lord of the Flies / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Jack sets the entire island on fire to kill Ralph, but the massive amount of smoke attracts a Naval ship, which Ralph and Piggy have been awaiting the whole book long.
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Lord of the Flies / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Lord of the Flies / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Ralph, upon seeing Sam and Eric fighting each other, realizes how screwed his order is.
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Lord of the Flies / int_ad63e89f	type	Disaster Democracy
Lord of the Flies / int_ad63e89f	comment	Disaster Democracy: They try something like this at first. Ralph is the chief, with some level of dictatorial power that he seldom uses, but he is put there by the consent of the group.
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Lord of the Flies / int_adf84dea	type	What Beautiful Eyes!
Lord of the Flies / int_adf84dea	comment	What Beautiful Eyes!: Simon's eyes are described as "so bright they had deceived Ralph into thinking him delightfully gay and wicked." In Fanon, these are portrayed as Innocent Blue Eyes due to Simon being the purest of the boys, or green eyes to show Simon's connection to nature.
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Lord of the Flies / int_b04fdcc4	type	Loners Are Freaks
Lord of the Flies / int_b04fdcc4	comment	Loners Are Freaks: Roger is described as being a mysterious and quiet boy who likes to keep to himself when he and the choir boys are telling Ralph and Piggy their names.
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Lord of the Flies / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
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Lord of the Flies / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Lord of the Flies / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: If you think about it, the boys becoming forced to live on an island and form their own government is worse than having just died in the plane crash.
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Lord of the Flies / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
Lord of the Flies / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Coming of Age Story: Ralph is very happy about the absence of adults on the island, but quickly realizes how much responsibility he must take as the chief. At the end, when the mere presence of an adult stops their murderous battle instantly, it is shown that actually they haven't matured at all, and they are all still children with an instinctive deference to authority.
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Lord of the Flies / int_b52355aa	type	Dying for Symbolism
Lord of the Flies / int_b52355aa	comment	Dying for Symbolism: Two incidents mark milestones in the makeshift society's descent into barbarism. Simon's death represents the end of innocence of the kids on the island. Piggy's death, after he makes a moral stand for order and unity, marks the complete collapse of civilization, symbolised by the shattering of the conch. Sam and Eric are captured, and Ralph is left helpless and alone.
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Lord of the Flies / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Lord of the Flies / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: To The Coral Island at the end.
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Lord of the Flies / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Lord of the Flies / int_b588a9b6	comment	Averted with other characters, though, as both Jack and Ralph (in a more benevolent way) try to cow dissenters to their point of view with words at first, but their listeners tend to lack the mental sophistication to be argued with, and the increasing loss of words and articulacy is one of the clearest signs of their collapsing civilisation.
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Lord of the Flies / int_b913a5df	type	Accidental Innuendo
Lord of the Flies / int_b913a5df	comment	The scene early in the book when Jack and Ralph are getting embarrassed about having to start a fire by rubbing two sticks together. Probably an Accidental Innuendo on William Golding's part, though, if his comments about not intentionally including anything about sexuality in the book are to be believed.
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Lord of the Flies / int_bb40e7e0	type	Failed Future Forecast
Lord of the Flies / int_bb40e7e0	comment	Failed Future Forecast: Lord of the Flies is actually set in the near future (of 1956), after a nuclear war between the USSR and Britain. This is mentioned by some of the boys in the book (along with the existence of nuclear bombs and their use), although usually in passing.
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Lord of the Flies / int_bcba27a1	type	Putting on the Reich
Lord of the Flies / int_bcba27a1	comment	Putting on the Reich: Jack's attitude, rhetoric and eventual reign over the other boys have strong shades of Nazi Germany. His mud mask is a striking design in red, white and black...
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Lord of the Flies / int_bf110089	type	Break Them by Talking
Lord of the Flies / int_bf110089	comment	Break Them by Talking: Done by the Lord of the Flies to Simon about human nature and law of the jungle and stuff. Averted with other characters, though, as both Jack and Ralph (in a more benevolent way) try to cow dissenters to their point of view with words at first, but their listeners tend to lack the mental sophistication to be argued with, and the increasing loss of words and articulacy is one of the clearest signs of their collapsing civilisation.
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Lord of the Flies / int_c10da874	type	The '80s
Lord of the Flies / int_c10da874	comment	The 1990 film gives a more definitive setting: the late 80s.
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Lord of the Flies / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Lord of the Flies / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Ralph's reaction to Piggy before he's about to be killed by a rock, dropped by Roger, in the 90s remake. In the book, when Jack completely splits from Ralph, Ralph calls after him one more time. Jack, with tears of humiliation in his eyes and his voice tight with fury, shrieks this in reply, both to Ralph and by extension to civilisation and decency in general.
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Lord of the Flies / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Lord of the Flies / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Subverted. The boys think they'll be like this, but they quickly turn against each other.
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Lord of the Flies / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Lord of the Flies / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Ralph wants to keep the fire lit to attract rescue. Jack wants the fire snuffed out so their fun won't end. Jack manages to draw the attention of the Royal Navy by setting fire to the entire island in an attempt to kill Ralph. It is implied that they wouldn't have noticed the island at all otherwise. The savagery ends and "humanity" seems about to be reasserted... by the arrival of the military. In a big moment of self-awareness after scolding the surviving boys, the officer even realises that the war he is fighting is fundamentally the same situation as the boys, but on a bigger scale.
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Lord of the Flies / int_c3b40ab8	type	Evil Redhead
Lord of the Flies / int_c3b40ab8	comment	Evil Redhead: Jack is the cruelest character in the book (apart from Roger) and is also a redhead.
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Lord of the Flies / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Lord of the Flies / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Golding wrote Lord of the Flies partly to subvert children's adventure literature, in particular The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne, which also provided the names of Ralph and Jack. The Naval officer even has the following line: This completes the Book Ends begun when the children first realize they're alone on a tropical island.
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Lord of the Flies / int_c98b7916	type	Messianic Archetype
Lord of the Flies / int_c98b7916	comment	Messianic Archetype: Subverted and deconstructed. The description of Simon's death sounds very much alike an atonement sacrifice, but rather than save the boys for their sins, or just show them that how they act is wrong, it just pushes them deeper into moral guilt as they proceed to completely forget about him, cementing the loss and oblivion of innocence.
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Lord of the Flies / int_cb9afcd	type	The Ken Burns Effect
Lord of the Flies / int_cb9afcd	comment	The Ken Burns Effect: The events leading up to the plane crash in the 1963 film are told through photographs. The opening credits play over said film as well.
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Lord of the Flies / int_d308cbb0	type	Character Catchphrase
Lord of the Flies / int_d308cbb0	comment	Character Catchphrase: Ralph with 'sucks to your ass-mar''. Piggy, also, with "I've got the conch!"
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Lord of the Flies / int_d442f9d1	type	ToiletHumor
Lord of the Flies / int_d442f9d1	comment	Toilet Humor: Ralph and Piggy, when they first try to blow the conch, find the loud farting noise extremely funny.
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Lord of the Flies / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Lord of the Flies / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Hinted at, at least. When the Naval Officer who finds the boys scolds them for reverting to savagery in a way he describes as unbecoming of British boys, it is noted that when they start crying he turns away uncomfortably... and looks at the warship he serves on. Jack, bigtime. He starts out saying that rules are what make us civilized and that they're not savages, they're proud Englishmen...yet he's the first person to leave the group because of the rules and in turn creates and leads the savage tribe.
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Lord of the Flies / int_d7a5fa23	type	Symbolically Broken Object
Lord of the Flies / int_d7a5fa23	comment	Symbolically Broken Object: The destruction of the conch shell symbolizes the breakdown of civilization.
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Lord of the Flies / int_d934b1c7	type	Small, Secluded World
Lord of the Flies / int_d934b1c7	comment	Small, Secluded World: The whole plot takes place on an deserted remote island.
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Lord of the Flies / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
Lord of the Flies / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: All the boys who aren't Ralph, Jack, Piggy, Simon, Roger, and the Twins in the 1990 film have different names than the ones they have in the book.
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Lord of the Flies / int_de143e97	type	Psychic Nosebleed
Lord of the Flies / int_de143e97	comment	Psychic Nosebleed: Simon and his feverish confrontation/hallucination with the pig's head.
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Lord of the Flies / int_e21faf11	type	Friend to All Living Things
Lord of the Flies / int_e21faf11	comment	Friend to All Living Things: Simon is the only boy who enjoys the island as a natural paradise and adopts a lizard as a pet. He even makes a little "Happy Place" for himself in the more nature-beautiful side of the woods that represents his innate good nature and innocence. The sow's head placed later represents how evil has started to contaminate.
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Lord of the Flies / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
Lord of the Flies / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: A sow's head on a pike, slowly decaying, serves as the metaphor for the decay of children's morals, thus making them closer to hoglike greed. The title itself is a reference to Beelzebub.
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Lord of the Flies / int_e313b4e7	type	Manchild
Lord of the Flies / int_e313b4e7	comment	The adults (at least the ones off-screen) are very inane and negligent regarding how they handled the future of the boys. They just dump an entire class of boys into a plane without any adults supervising them (unless the adult marshals on the plane died?) and you can tell they're not putting much effort in investigating what has become of the boys. The plane that did come near the island doesn't even see Ralph trying to signal it. Both the beginning and end of the novel suggests that adults are preoccupied with their own wars and are not much better from juvenile boys.
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Lord of the Flies / int_e5411cdf	type	Cult
Lord of the Flies / int_e5411cdf	comment	Cult: Jack's tribe becomes one by the end, offering sacrifices to the Beast that ultimately become its avatar.
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Lord of the Flies / int_e96fe76d	type	Hobbes Was Right
Lord of the Flies / int_e96fe76d	comment	Hobbes Was Right: Could be considered to be an example of this trope, but it could also be considered to simply be an example of a Crapsack World setting implying that government and anarchy are both bound to fail given that it starts with a wartime evacuation and ends with the boys being rescued by a naval warship, thereby subtly implying that even "civilized" society is not actually any better. The book is accessible to several critical interpretations.
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Lord of the Flies / int_eaaf461f	type	National Geographic Nudity
Lord of the Flies / int_eaaf461f	comment	National Geographic Nudity: Ralph strips naked in the first chapter, and the text describes that since he's twelve years old, he's old enough to have a fit body while still young enough to not feel ackward being nude around others. This scene also describes how he has a body "like a boxer," which is one of the qualities that makes him attractive as leader to the other boys. In general, the boys tend to go around shirtless, or wearing even less, as more time goes on.
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Lord of the Flies / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Lord of the Flies / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: In order to soften the blow of losing his leadership to him, Ralph declares Jack leader of the hunters. This earnest gesture can largely be seen as the beginning of the end, as it inadvertently sows the seeds of a rival faction with Jack at its head.
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Lord of the Flies / int_ee9877ea	type	Too Good for This Sinful Earth
Lord of the Flies / int_ee9877ea	comment	Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Simon is a Jesus figure, and meets a similar fate.
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Lord of the Flies / int_f4a3140c	type	Survival Mantra
Lord of the Flies / int_f4a3140c	comment	Survival Mantra: Poor Percival, one of the littluns, having been driven to a depression and loneliness from the neglect by the older boys, tirelessly recites his name and address—"Percival Wemys Madison, The Vicarage, Harcourt St. Anthony, Hants"—like an incantation", only for his memory to begin to falter as the story and degradation of the island's civilization progresses. By the end, when Percival is finally able to recite this crucial information to someone that can actually help him, he can only mouth wordlessly at the naval officer, his time on the island causing him to have forgotten it.
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Lord of the Flies / int_f6e35fd7	type	Acting Your Intellectual Age
Lord of the Flies / int_f6e35fd7	comment	Acting Your Intellectual Age: Zigzagged with Piggy. As the most intellectual member of the group, Piggy often comes across as an adult in a child's body and thinks the others are acting like "a bunch of kids", but the fact that he is still a child with a lack of control over his own emotions is obvious when he allows his indignation to take him on unimpressive rants that makes him increasingly unpopular, and he is unable to accept that, in the eyes of the group, his points are undermined by the fact that he's the one making them, and makes them less likely to listen to Ralph, who could make the same point in a more persuasive way.
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Lord of the Flies / int_fa686f29	comment	Weird Moon: A thin crescent moon cannot possibly rise at sunset, as shown in one scene — such a moon would have to be full.
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Lord of the Flies / int_fb9e25e9	type	Team Mom
Lord of the Flies / int_fb9e25e9	comment	Team Mom: Simon is the one who mostly takes care of the littluns. In a lesser degree, Piggy, whose constant quoting of his aunt makes him the only female voice around the bunch of boys. Ralph also shows his concerns over the younger boys later and actually bickers with Jack about this, who doesn't care in the least about the problem.
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Lord of the Flies / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License â€“ Physics
Lord of the Flies / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: The divergent lens of Piggy's glasses (required for his short-sightedness) would be useless for lighting a fire. You would need a convergent lens, found in reading glasses. The kids would have had to learn one of the other methods for starting fires that they discussed, but that would break the plot.
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Lord of the Flies / int_ff6d8ad9	type	Adaptational Nationality
Lord of the Flies / int_ff6d8ad9	comment	Adaptational Nationality: The boys are British in the novel and 1963 film. In the 1990 film, they're American.
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Lord of the Flies / int_ffb79066	type	Chromosome Casting
Lord of the Flies / int_ffb79066	comment	Chromosome Casting: A male example - a bit less than half of the characters are pupils at single-sex boarding schools. Averted in the Filipino adaptation Alkitrang Dugo, where the characters are male and female students (equivalent of junior high in the U.S.) who were on their way to compete in an athletic meet.
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