Piggy As A Hero : The Hero Of The Hero

In the book, the readers can tell that Jack only cares about savagery and hunting pigs. Jack feels that he can replace Ralph as leader, because Ralph does not take much of responsibility. He falls into the savagery category because when he puts on the mask to kill the pigs, it hides his inner inhibitions. “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.”(pg. 69). This quote shows Jack’s evil side when it comes to the death of their first pig, and it is also a political allegory. “The conch doesn’t count on the top of the mountain… so you shut up.”(pg. 42) Jack feels like he is a dictator, so he decides to take control of Piggy. “You should have seen the blood!”(pg. 70). This shows Jack’s loss of innocence, and the savagery inside him and the

Piggy's death is the symbolization of the breakdown of order and the beginning of disunity on the island. This breakdown of order is clearly delineated in the book. Jack sees the chance to kill Ralph right after Piggy is killed because Ralph is vulnerable, and alone against Jack and his tribe. Jack takes it upon himself to declare himself as the leader, “I’m chief!” (Page 181). Jack sees the opportunity to proclaim himself as leader of the boys after Piggy dies and the conch is destroyed. Jack then proceeds to barrage Ralph with spears in an attempt to kill him, “Viciously, with full intention, he hurled the

By the end of the novel Piggy has perished while Ralph survives to be rescued. Even this puts Ralph in a good light because it shows he was smart and resilient enough to survive on an island full of savages. If Piggy-with all his disadvantages- were to survive it would only serve to undermine the effort Ralph put into survive. In Ralph’s civilized society and the insane society of Jack, a weak person like Piggy can't make themselves known without consequences. This is similar to

"Piggy saw the smile and misinterpreted it as friendliness. There had grown up tacitly among the biguns the opinion that Piggy was an outsider, not only by accent, which did not matter, but by fat, and ass-mar, and specs, and a certain disinclination for manual labour." (Golding 68)

In the book there is conch which gives the beholder of it power over the rest of the group. Jack knows that the group is torn on who should be their leader, so he does whatever is necessary to get the conch and control the group. Jack knows that the only way to do this is to make the group turn against Ralph. With power on his mind his begins to belittle Ralph and make the group think Ralph hasn’t been a good leader. This happens when Jack says, “Who are you, anyway? Sitting there telling people what to do. You can't hunt, you can't sing” (Golding 238). The group then begins to trust Jack because Ralph seems inferior compared to him. Once Jack has this power he begins to think that everyone who isn’t with him is against him. This leads to Jack killing Piggy to stop and uprising from him and Ralph. There is no way that a 13 year old boy would kill another classmate unless he was fueled with power like Macbeth was. Jack isn’t the only one in the book to let power get the best of him, Ralph also falls victim to it. Ralph begins to disrespect his best friend on the island Piggy when the book says “Ralph pushed Piggy to one side. ‘I was chief and you were going to do what I said’” (Golding 132). This quote shows how Ralph is willing to harm someone he care about just to show everyone including Piggy how powerful he truly is. Both Ralph and Jack let power cloud their judgement which

During one part of the story, Piggy made Jack furious when he had his mask on. Jack became a different person by becoming mean and aggressive towards Piggy “...Jack smacked Piggy’s head. Piggy’s glasses flew off and tinkled on the rocks.” When Jack wore the clay mask, he turned into another person; the mask gave him power and courage to slap Piggy. The boys needed food and when Jack put the mask on, he was able to kill the sow without hesitation and left the head of the pig as a gift for the beast.” The first blow had paralyzed its hind quarters, so then the circle could close in and beat and beat” (Golding 75). In the beginning of the novel, Jack was afraid to kill a pig, but eventually adapts to the island, thus he becomes more courageous. After Jack made a kill, he started chanting like the boys always did, but it was dark and there was a thunderstorm and Simon got killed in the chaos. The boys were chanting and Jack was part of the chant. They beat someone which they thought was a beast, but it was Simon. It was dark and Jack automatically assumed it was the beast that was coming out of the forest. So, Jack and the boys beat him up and killed. From here on, Jack becomes more aggressive and violent throughout the

Due to the prejudice of one person, the feeling of hatred arises inside, causing people to be isolated from others. Piggy was stranded on the island like all the other boys were and except for his physical difference, he is no different from Jack, who also has ideas for them to survive on the island. On page 51, the dialogue “We want meat” shows that Jack’s idea of needing meat is surprisingly useful because all the boys needed food to survive and Jack is the only one who is truly passionate about it, whereas Ralph is more focused on getting rescued (Golding). Just because Jack has presented a good idea, it does not mean that he has a right to bully Piggy.

Piggy has an external conflict with jack in the novel. Jack is bully’s piggy; therefore, piggy has a controversy standing up for something’s he would like to say. For example, piggy states “ I

Though Golding created many different characters in this book, Ralph proved that he was superior over the rest by his strong personality, being a great group leader, and being a positive thinker. He showed that even though there is a lot going on around you, things that are not positive, you just have to push through and be positive and the outcome might just turn out to be not so

Lord Of The Flies Essay    The novel Lord of the Flies written by William Golding is an adventure of survival and a test of strength and maturity, where a group of boys become stranded on an island and are forced to protect themselves. An important character in the novel is Piggy, he is portrayed to be short, overweight and is recognized as the most physically vulnerable of all the boys. Three incidents that accurately reveal Piggy's true character in the novel include; when he is watching Ralph swim, when he comes up with the idea of the conch; and when Piggy is disrespected by the other boys.       

In the novel the boys are removed from civilization and must learn to think for themselves. The character of Piggy is used to represent goodness and civilization. While the boys on the island must learn to govern themselves and freely choose their actions, Piggy’s naturally mature instincts, ingrained by civilization, begin to rationalize the situation and how the boys can work together to survive. Piggy’s beliefs and values were modeled on that of the authoritative adult world, what he assumed to be best. He enjoys contributing to a working civilization and for the good of society: “Piggy was […] so full of pride in his contribution to the good of society […] that he helped to fetch wood.” (8.118). Piggy’s human defect lies less in the recline into savagery, but rather his meekness to speak up for the greater good of the society. His intellect approach to life, modeled by the attitudes and rules of the adult world, is something he believes everyone should share. He is however weak and lacks the courage to stand up to the growing evil on the island. At castle rock Piggy attempts to stand up for himself against Jack after having his glasses stolen but he is unsuccessful. He

In the book, Lord of the Flies, the character Piggy is seen as an outcast. Piggy is different in his looks, intellect, and role in the group. There are many instances within the book to further show his experience on and off the island to be different from the rest of the boys. Because of the differences from Piggy to the rest of the boys, Piggy is shown as more of an outsider or outcast throughout the book.

Not only was he the mastermind to killing Piggy, but while Piggy was alive he treated him very cruel. It really showed how harmful and dangerous Jack was and could be. Right from the beginning, right from when they met they argued and just were not fond of each other and that considerably be another motive to wanting to kill Piggy. Jack’s aspiration for power and to just be in charge, and Piggy just wouldn’t give him the satisfaction of thinking that he could and would be in charge while they were on that island. Initially brought violence to the two weather it was physical or verbal. When Jack let the fire go out Piggy rails on Jack and his posse for being so thoughtless which Jack then reacts by punching him and breaking his glasses. “This from Piggy, and the wails of agreement from some of the hunters, drove Jack to violence. The bolting look came into his blue eyes. He took a step, and able at last to hit someone, stuck his fist into Piggy’s stomach.” It is understandable to be annoyed when someone is yelling at you but right away he became

All throughout the story Ralph shows us heroic qualities like: blowing the conch and having all the boys run to him. It shows that the boys look up to him as their hero to get them off the island. Even at at the end when all the boys chased him down trying to kill them. He still lead them all right to the naval officer. Showing us that he is the true hero of the story. At least Ralph stayed moral that meant he could live with himself without the weight of a person's death on his

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