Close Reading Chapter 4. Pages Answer Key

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1 Close Reading Chapter 4 Pages Answer Key

2 Light: Patch of sunlight fell on his face and a brightness appeared in the depths of the water...he spilt the water The sunlight is the divine wisdom. It attempts to highlight the brightness or hope for goodness in Jack. Jack dropping the water at that moment connotes his refusal to acknowledge that part of himself. 1. Symbolism... Colour Symbols: He made one cheek and one eye - socket white, then he rubbed red over the other half of his face and slashed a black bar White symbolizes purity, red symbolizes passion, and black represents evil. This represents Jack s evolving identity: evil is overshadowing all. Water Symbol: He looked in the pool for his reflection Water is a symbol for rebirth. This represents Jack s baptism into his new identity - his rebirth. He knelt, holding the shell of water His kneeling connotes a spiritual moment and the shell of water, again, seems to allude to a baptismal ceremony.

3 2. Animal Imagery & Characterization bloodthirsty snarling = animalistic/predatory

4 3. Diction. Appalled = horrify Stranger = Jack is not yet familiar with this side of his personality (this may represent the fact that the predatory nature was deep in Golding s unconscious. This is the first moment when his Id, the part of the psyche that controls instinctual desires, surfaces to his conscious mind and seems to control him.) Sinewy body held up the mask : held up is defined as to keep from falling or from getting away. Jack wishes to keep this identity from getting away. This shows that it is not fully one with him. This savagery is unfamiliar. He s trying this new identity on as one tries on a costume. Behind which Jack hid Jack is concealing his true identity, which is not yet fully savage. In hiding, he is liberated. This brings to mind freedom. The mask helps Jack to feel free from the rules of civilization which

5 Psychoanalytic Criticism Topic Sentence In Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses symbolism to show how the Id s identity becomes more prominent after the psyche is impacted by war.

6 New Lit. Crit. or Archetypal Topic Sentence In Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses symbolism (or archetypes) to emphasize Jack s transformation from an innocent school boy to a savage beast, which is symbolic of man s transformation from moral to evil in the absence of civilized society.

7 Golding uses symbolism to emphasize Jack s transformation from an innocent school boy to a savage beast, which is symbolic of man s transformation from morality to evil in the absence of civilized society. Jack makes a mask from clay and charcoal to conceal his pink flesh so that he might better hunt the pigs. He ma[kes] one cheek and one eye-socket white which represents the suppressed purity that is still present in Jack. Then he rub[s] red over the other half and slash[es] a black bar of charcoal across from the right ear to the left jaw demonstrating how impulsive passion and evil now surround the purity that once dominated Jack s personality. There is light imagery used symbolically when a rounded patch of sunlight [falls] on his face and a brightness appear[s] in the depths of the water. The sunlight represents divine wisdom, which attempts to bring attention to Jack s goodness. This is the last moment of hope where Jack has a chance to recognize that this transformation is happening, and this is the moment where he can see the mask as unnecessary and even dangerous. At this point, however, Jack sees himself as an awesome stranger and he split[s] the water. He sees that this is not his true identity, but in splitting the water he refuses to acknowledge the fact that this mask is a stranger. Instead, he embraces this new stranger and the mask [becomes] a thing on its own, behind which Jack [hides], liberated from shame and self-consciousness. Jack hiding behind the mask symbolizes his gaining security and power from the mask because he is liberated or free from civilized society which shames people for following the Id. Furthermore, Bill solidifies this power when he blunder[s] away through the bushes and when the mask compel[s] the boys to follow. Bill s reaction symbolizes how humanity is drawn to instinctual passion and evil. Consequently, this passage represents a turning point in Jack s identity. He embraces savagery in order to do acts that his innocent school boy identity can not accomplish because of the limitations civilization imposes on him; Jack, and Bill for that matter, demonstrate man s willingness to embrace savagery in the absence of civilized society