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WJEC GCSE English Literature Lord of the Flies Essay Plans
Essay plans for every character and theme in Lord of the Flies. I used these to gain an A* in this exam confidently.
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SIMON-Christ figure: – “Simon found for them the fruit that they could not reach” – “more sunlight fell” –
“honey-coloured sunlight” – “The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with
brightness”
-Perceptive insights: - “inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness” – “There was a
blackness within, a blackness that spread”
-Death: - “essential illness” – “It was crying out against the abominable noise” – “tearing of teeth and
claws”
JACK
-Power struggle: -“his hair was red” “fair hair” –“Jack and Ralph smiled at each other with shy liking”
“the Chief”
-C vs S: - “the face of red and white and black” – “shame and self-consciousness” – “we’ll close in
and beat and beat and beat”
-Conflict: - “you’re breaking the rules” – “who cares” – “Bollocks to the rules”
ROGER
-Catalytic: - “inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy” – “black hair…unsociable remoteness into
something forbidding” – “he was noticeably darker”
-C vs S: - “Roger’s arm was civilised by a civilisation…in ruins” – “prodding with his spear wherever
pigfish appeared”
-P’s death: - “darkness in man’s heart” – “Roger sharpened a stick at both ends” – “essential illness”
“hangman’s horror”
SAMNERIC
-Reliance and unity: - “Samneric” – “they breathed together, they grinned together” – “the
otherness of Samneric, felt the power in their hands”
-Conflict: - “locked in an embrace, were fighting”
-Weakness: - “their new and shameful loyalty came to them” – “The twin moaned faintly and then
squealed again”
RALPH
-Leadership: - “the fair boy” – “most powerfully, there was the conch” – “Jack and Ralph smiled at
each other with shy liking”
-C vs S: - “his fair hair was plastered over his eyebrows and he pushed it back” – “The desire to
squeeze and hurt was over-mastering”
-Message: - “Ralph wept for the…darkness of man’s heart” – “It was an accident” – “They were
savages it was true, but they were human”
PIGGY
-Vulnerability: - “on account of my asthma” – “I can hardly see!” – “intelligence…traceable to Piggy”
-C vs S: - “talisman, the fragile, shining beauty of the shell” – “He was the only boy on the island
whose hair refused to grow”
-Death: - “the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments” – “the true, wise friend called
Piggy”
VIOLENCE
-“All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat”
-“invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life… Roger’s arm was conditioned by a civilisation…in
ruins”
-“the crowd surged after it…screamed, struck, bit, tore…tearing of teeth and claws”
-“What have you been doing? Having a war or something?”
EVIL
-“All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat”
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