Piggy Allegory

Even though many supporters suggest that Ralph is a great leader, it is obvious that Jack is the best leader on the island. Since the boys set foot on the island, Jack was honest, and he never hesitated to express his feelings. “Human nature cannot be so irremediably bad if the arrival of one adult can immediately put everything to rights” (Reilly,10). This quote explains that when Jack was introduced on the island he was a great leader, and this made the boys realize they each have individual responsibilities in order to contribute to the group. While being honest, Jack demanded the group to do what he wanted, and the boys would obey him. “Jack at first demands to be called as at school, Merridew, the surname his mark of superior age and authority”(Oldsey 4). This quote illustrates that Jack immediately separated himself from the other boys on the island.

First off, the kids themselves show how they have been corrupted by society on the island. The children learn things from society, for example they form a leadership amongst themselves and create a community. There were many arguments about the leadership and what the final decision should be. Ralph thinks he is the final say and he shows this when Piggy says, “You said you wanted things done. So as we could be rescued.” Ralph fires back at Piggy “Oh, shut up!” (65). This shows how Ralph has been corrupted by society because he thinks he can boss everyone around and tell people what to do. He probably learned this from other leaders he knows or researched about. Also, kids learn many things from grown ups and people of higher authority. Being stranded on an island is very scary but these kids apply what they have learned in society. Especially Piggy who is by far the most educated of all of them. He explains to the others how, “Grown ups know things, they ain’t afraid of the dark. They’d meet up and have tea and discuss. Then things ‘ud be all right” (95). Piggy knows what adults do in society and is just

To begin with, one way that the novel is an allegory is when it is perceived as a religious aspect. Religious allegories are seen throughout the story. For instance, Simon tried to tell people the truth about the beast and as a result Simon gets killed. This relates to region because Jesus Christ tries to spread the Word of the Lord and as a result get crucified and killed. Another example is the Garden of Eden. When Ralph and Piggy first realized they were stuck on an island they took off their clothes and were naked without shame. " Piggy was looking determined and began to take off his shorts. Presently he was palely and fatly naked. He tip-toed down the sandy side of the pool, and sat there up to his neck in water smiling proudly at Ralph."

Jack was one whose personality caused the civilization to come tumbling down. When we first discover the boys on the island and get a mere glimpse of their personalities, it is quite apparent that Jack is going to be one who is power-hungry. He already has a group of followers, the choirboys, of whom he has the utmost power over. He has a very controlling personality that cannot be subsided by the obstacles that are shown in the novel. Jack suffers from wanting to be the best. When he is not chosen as the chief and supreme ruler in the very beginning, it is proven that he will find a way to claw up to the top and take the spot that in his opinion is his right. Jack has quite a reckless personality, and will risk all to be standing alone at the top as king or leader. Jack is also guilty of envy, which goes hand in hand with power. He is envious of everything that Ralph has. Ralph is the chief, and has much common sense. Jack senses this and is jealous of the fact that Ralph can command attention and a following that easily. I also believe, when reflecting back, that Jack is in a sense jealous of Piggy, without being aware of it. Piggy is the complete intellect on the island. While Jack is quite smart, he certainly is not as gifted as Piggy. Piggy can interpret any situation and be the lone voice of knowledge of the masses. Jack not only gets jealous

First I will talk about my first piece of evidence about how Jack is an effective leader. “He’d never have gotten us meat. He isn't a prefect and we don't know anything about him. He just gives orders and expects people to obey for nothing.” (Golding,PDF, 98) This quote shows that Ralph wouldn’t of done anything to hunt for meat for the boys on the island like Jack did. Ralph only worried about keeping the fire alive to have them get rescued, and not about hunting for food to stay alive. Also, you can’t just expect people to do orders when you don’t have anything to give them in return. Jack gave the other boys meat when he gave them orders. By Jack giving the

Jack decided he wanted to have fun while at the island and did not appreciate taking orders, so he left the group with his hunters. This was just the beginning of the social destruction. Ralph’s greatest mistake as leader was giving someone like Jack the freedom to dictate a group of hunters, who were stronger than the rest of the boys.

In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, the most important symbols that help understand Piggy are the pigs on the island and his glasses. His glasses represent his intelligence and his ability to come up with creative ideas about how to survive. Piggy is the one who finds the conch and teaches Ralph how to use it. The pigs on the other hand share a very similar behavior as Piggy who is shy but crucial to the survival of the boys. Without the pigs, at the boys would starve out and without Piggy they wouldn’t even be together in one spot.

The reason why Ralph represents the leader is because one thing is that he got elected out of the group of boys to be in charge, and another reason being that he wants everybody on the island to survive with him, while Jack is the kind of character who wants to be the boss of the group and wants to be able to control the boys plus he is also the person that shows violence towards others. For example when Ralph is in charge he wanted the group to build huts so that they could have shelter on the island, and an example of Jack being a poor leader is when he went with the other group of hunters and went killing the pigs on the island as if it was a sport just for the killing of the pigs, Jack was even the one who said “Get him it’s the beast!” which was when Simon went into the middle of the group and got killed by all of the boys by accident. Another example of when Jack was very pitiful was when he stole the glasses from Piggy without telling him, so when Piggy went to get his glasses from jack, Roger then rolled down the boulder on to him which then killed

“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What’s grownups going to think?

The true nature of man is something that has been debated constantly throughout both literary and philosophical history. Many exceptional individuals have argued both man’s innate innocence and his savagery. In the award-winning novel, Lord of the Flies, author William Golding expertly establishes that man’s nature is to behave malevolently when afraid through his effective use of symbolism, archetype, and allegory. One way that William Golding demonstrates that man behaves maliciously when frightened is through his application of symbolism.

Jack, a symbol of a dictatorship, is a foil of Ralph, who symbolizes a democracy. From the start of the novel, Jack has always been power hungry and has an animalistic bloodlust he feels the need to fulfill. When the twins, Sam and Eric, claim to have seen the beast, Ralph calls for another assembly. Ralph attempts to stay sensible and refuses to believe that there’s a real beast on the island. On the other hand, Jack believes in the beast and is eager to hunt it down, which gains support and approval from the other boys. When Piggy tries to give his input on the situation, he gets cut off by Jack and tries fighting for his right to speak by mentioning the conch, to which Jack replies, “We don’t need the conch anymore. We know who ought to say things [...] It’s time some people know they gotta stay quiet and leave the deciding to the rest of us.” (102). By interrupting Piggy, who has the conch in his hands, Jack is going against Ralph’s rules and challenging his and the conch’s authority. Furthermore, Jack’s tyrannical behavior is clearly seen during this scene especially because he’s belittling some boys’s opinions and claims that they shouldn’t even partake in decision

In the book, Lord of the Flies, William Golding wants us to believe that the reason for savagery in most of the characters is because of the lack of civilization. Piggy is the only civilized one left and is trying to keep everyone else civilized. Piggy believes that if adults were on the island with them, than all civilization would be restored “but a sign came down from the world of grown-ups… there was a sudden explosion and a corkscrew trail across the sky” (95). Piggy expresses his hope for a sign from the adults to straighten things up, but the sign was a dead parachuter. Piggy tries to make rules for everyone to follow but no one does because there will not be any consequences for breaking the rules, so “Jack was the first to make himself

This shows the evil and rebellious personality that Jack has. This is what makes him a ruler of unfair ways of ruling. The conflict on the island begins with Jack trying dominant the group rather than work with Ralph. He frequently challenges the power of the conch, declaring that the conch rule does not matter on certain parts of the island. “We don’t need the conch anymore.

In the Lord of the Flies, Golding uses allegory to show that evil lives with in everyone. His secondary themes are, civilization vs. savagery, and that society relies on each individual’s moral behavior to function and without a society, our values, ideas, and the basics of right and wrong would not exist. “The theme is an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature. ”(Golding 204) Golding uses religious and political allegory; he also uses allegorical objects such as Piggy’s glasses, the conch, the fire, etc. to help demonstrate his themes to the readers.

Ralph and Piggy are an unlikely example that evil lies in the hearts of all. While the boys are trapped on the island they hold several feasts. During one of these feasts, the boys begin to dance about a blazing bonfire. As their dance intensifies, the boys incorporate the sinister song of the pig hunt. Eventually, they lose control of their savage side and become so insane that they murder the purest boy on the island, Simon. Unfortunately, “Piggy and Ralph, under the threat of the sky, found themselves eager to take place in this demented but partly secure society,”(Golding 152). Ralph and Piggy participate in this deadly dance, killing Simon, although murder, is not in their typical nature. Ralph and Piggy are two of the three “innocent”