Lord Of The Flies Civilization Analysis

Piggy's glasses were used many times throught out the novel, where the boys of the island in fact found good use in them, and treated his glasses as a symbol of discovery,innovation, and source of civilization on the island such as creating the fire. Once piggy's glasses break, the innovation, and civilization is gone.

    The spectacles of Piggy are essential for the storyline and play a role in the knowing of the downfall of order and the takeover of chaos. Although each character uses them differently and has a different attitude towards them, the glasses give the correct insight of the scientific technological advancement that is available in the surrounding world, but not on the

Lord of the Flies Man vs Society, Man vs Man, and Man vs nature Illustrate Humanity

Will Durant, an American writer, historian, and philosopher, once said, “Civilization begins with order, grow with liberty, and ends with chaos.” If civilization is lost within a community, all order can vanish. Every community has some sort of civility and order in place. Without out it, the community would crumble and conflict would break out. Although all communities are flawed, most have something to keep peace. In William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, Golding gives several examples of various things that keep civilization in order, when a group of boys get stranded on an island. Golding uses a conch to symbolize the boys’ civilization and order and as the time spent on the island increases, that order slowly disappears.

Piggy’s glasses symbolize reason and innovation throughout the novel; Golding most commonly associates them with the old camp on the beach. Piggy uses his glasses to help the other boys “see”, both physically and intellectually, the best and most reasonable way forward. However, any time they are removed from the beach, chaos is sure to ensue. The first time, when the boys go to the mountain to light the signal fire, Jack and the other boys pry the glasses off Piggy’s face so they can use them as burning glasses. While this does help to start the signal fire so they can be seen by a ship, it traumatizes Piggy since even at this point in the book, Jack scares him. Despite the good intentions for the fire, it soon goes wild and even results in the death of a littlun.

“The theme is an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature. The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not any political system however apparently logical or respectable.” This quote from the author, William Golding, summarizes the themes and morals presented in his novel Lord of the Flies. Despite society’s progression towards civilization and acceptance of the idea that human tendencies towards goodness, each individual is susceptible to their natural darker instincts. In the novel, Lord of the Flies, William Golding's characters begin as seemingly innocent school boys who deteriorate into savages. The author uses the characters of Piggy, Ralph and Jack

First and foremost, Piggy’s glasses are used to start a fire which shows a sign of civility as fire is the starting point to civilization, with it being the way the boys will return home. During the first meeting, Ralph addresses the group to say that a fire is needed to go in order to attract attention to the island for a passing boat. The boys then, unsure how to start a fire, “Ralph moved the lenses back and forth, this way and that, till a glossy white image of the declining sun lay on a piece of rotten wood. Almost at once a thin trickle of smoke rose up and made him cough”(Golding 56). This shows that because of Piggy being hard of sight, the boys were able to start a fire and have the ability to return to civilization. Furthermore, due to Piggy’s glasses creating the fire, the boys can now

Piggy’s glasses is the most powerful item on the island, which symbolize the knowledge and intelligence. In addition, it is also an important

William James once said, “ The deepest principle in Human Nature is the carving to be appreciated.” William Golding wrote the novel Lord of the Flies in 1954. In the novel Lord the Flies, William Golding interprets the book into a real life experience in which he lived through during World War II. Golding believes that the basic nature of an individual is evil. The novel is about a group of british boys who are stranded on an island by themselves to survive with no adults. It took place during the World War II when a plane was shot down leaving them on an island. William Golding establishes connections from the book to real life experiences in history.

In the novel Lord of The Flies, Piggy’s glasses symbolise the boys’ last reminder of civilisation, the social structure outside of the island and humanity. These glasses are linked to Piggy because they are a part of his identity and his glasses are a way to help Piggy not be ignored by the boys, as he otherwise is seen as the outsider. Throughout the novel, as the glasses become shattered, it results in more savagery. When they discover the significance of the glasses, and how to start a fire, the glasses begin symbolise hope of survival and rescue, and as they become shattered their hope of survival and rescue is diminished.

Piggy’s spectacles, too, symbolize the weakness of intellect and (as a tool for making fire) the loss to humanity when intellect is quashed by superstition and irrationality. The beast, the parachutist, the fire, the killing of the sow—all assume symbolic significance in the novel, justifying the label of allegory that often applies to this work (Carter, 1).”

Piggy’s spectacles represented the power by man to alter and recreate their environment, if needed, to best suit their likings. Piggy’s glasses were used to start the fire. The cracking of Piggy’s first lens symbolized the boys losing focus of what was necessary for their survival. The fire was used as a representation of technology and the boys’ only vital connection to human civilization.

William Golding was born on September 19, 1911 in Cornwall, England. At the age of 12 unsuccessfully wrote a novel and as a result of that he found an outlet by bullying others, as an adult he admitted he enjoyed hurting people and he considered his childhood self a brat. He is best known for his novel, The Lord of the Flies but like many of his other novels, it is mainly about human cruelty. He attended Oxford University, his father was hoping he would become a scientist but Golding studied English Literature instead. After a year of graduating he wrote a book of poetry named Poems but it was very much overlooked by critics. He eventually fell in the same position as his father, teaching English and Philosophy where he found one of his inspirations for The Lord of the Flies based on the students.

Without order and civilization, it is easy for one to revert back to primal instincts and savagery. This is the most prominent theme for William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a novel about a group of boys who become stranded on an island and as time progresses, slowly start to turn savage. When they first come to the island, the boys have a meeting and decide that they “‘ought to have a chief’” (Golding 19) so they can “‘look after [themselves]’” (Golding 18) and eventually elect Ralph as their chief. Jack, who is considered to be one of the leaders on the island along with Ralph, exclaims that “‘[they’ll] have rules! Lots of rules!’” (Golding 33) which is the boys’ attempt at recreating civilization on the island, but this attempt ultimately

Piggy’s glasses symbolize knowledge. The glasses also represent society’s reliance upon technology because humans are sometimes weak. The glasses were created to make Piggy’s eyesight better than before. His life is better with the glasses because he can see, without them I don’t know what he would do. Jack slaps the glasses off of Piggy’s face, and in that