Piggy In William Golding's The Lord Of The Flies

Without cloudy days the sun wouldn’t be appreciated as much. In Lord of The Flies, the character Piggy acts as a foil to Ralph, the main character, to accentuate how great a leader he is. This is shown through their appearances, how they interact with each other, and the state they are in by the end of the novel. The relationship the two share illuminates the the meaning the book’s meaning that / a person has to be the best to survive in society or lack thereof. / a person can’t have to many flaws otherwise You need to stay civilized to survive. Only the best of the best can survive in society.

In Lord of the Flies, Jack embodies the Id in Freud’s personality structures.The Id as Freud says, “operates according to the pleasure principle—it aims toward pleasurable

In the novel “Lord Of The Flies,” the author William Golding supports the philosopher Thomas Hobbes theory because the boys are depicted as bullies. The character Piggy in the novel is described to be a reliant and overweight boy that's constantly harassed therefore his nickname is Piggy. The first boy Piggy meets is Ralph, who turns out to be not so kind to Piggy most of the time. When all of the boys first meet each other, the boys start calling Piggy “fatty”. Ralph then tells the boys to stop calling him that but right as Ralph learns he use to be called “Piggy” back home he immediately starts making fun of Piggy and harasses him, “I don’t care what they call me….so long as they don’t call me what they used to at my old

Because Piggy is much more intelligent than the other boys, he adds a sizeable amount of irony to Lord of the Flies. The other castaways on the island treat Piggy with disrespect and contempt, despite how clever the overweight child actually is. The whole time the boys are stranded on the deserted island, instead of concern, they show a definite lack of interest and care for Piggy. The central reason for this cruel deficiency of empathy is Piggy's appearance. Regardless of how intelligent he was, Piggy was ignored because he was fat and he had glasses; the other children could not see past this unattractive façade to the logical and analytical genius underneath. Several times during the novel, Piggy tried to speak his mind, undoubtedly providing logical insight to many issues, such as lighting and maintaining a

for Ralph to act out. "We can use this (the conch) to call the others.

Piggy’s physical appearance contributes to his position as an outsider within the society of boys. When Piggy and Ralph first meet, Ralph remarks on Piggy’s shortness of breath to which Piggy responds, ¨ That’s right. Can’t catch my breath. I was the only boy in our school what had asthma, said the fat boy with a touch of pride, ‘And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three¨ (Golding 9). This quote describes Piggy as a fat boy with asthma and glasses, while the other boys are skinny and do not share any of the same characteristics as him. In addition, the author contributes to the outcasting Piggy by never revealing his real name and only describing Piggy as the “fat boy.” This proves that in this society, Piggy is not worth getting to

One can see by examining why the boys bully Piggy, that cowering behind the mask of society and belonging, humans are inherently evil.

us how Piggy is sectioned from the est of the group due to his social

The classic book Lord of the Flies written by William Golding is a story of a group of schoolboys being stranded on a tropical island during World War II. The three main boys are Jack, Ralph, and Piggy, but there are other boys with them on the island. As the book progresses, our group of protagonists slowly lose their morality and become wild savages. In the story there are three specific pig hunts the group has that canonize their steps to insanity. On the first hunt, three boys come across a piglet caught in the vines. The boys attempt to kill it, but the piglet escapes. During the second hunt, a larger group of boys run into a wild boar, which also escapes. On the third hunt, the groups hunters find a sow feeding her piglets. The boys slaughter the pig and put its head on a pike. Ultimately, the piglet, boar, and sow hunt slowly show the boy's madness progress. This helps to portray Golding’s theme that there is a darkness in every man’s heart.

“‘I don't care what they call me,’ [Piggy] said confidentially, ‘so long as they don't call me what they used to call me at school.’[...] ‘They used to call me 'Piggy.’(11)” Here, one can see that Piggy’s real name is not actually Piggy but, is meant to endure such a horrid name due to his looks. His body size causes the children around him to make fun of him and from then on, the name sticks with him till his very last moments. On this new island with new faces, Piggy’s suffering starts with the horrid name. From the moment Ralph tells the other boys about his name, the boys immediately start to treat him as a different person. These boys realize that on such an island with no other source of entertainment, the only other resort for these children is Piggy. One would assume that Piggy’s intelligence would be able to write off the insults and discrimination, but to these children, his intelligence served as a vulnerability as the boys use it to make him seem different from the others. Overall, Piggy acts as a source of entertainment for the boys. They want fun. They wanted entertainment. They want to enjoy the life without adults when they have the chance.

In Lord of the Flies, the character of Piggy was mistreated a lot by the other boys. Piggy was a boy from England just like all the other boys at his old school everyone would call him Piggy even though he wanted them to stop calling him that. Piggy had great ideas, but no one listens to Piggy because of who he is. Back in England, Piggy lived with his aunt, who owned a candy store, in which he could eat all the candy he wanted. His aunt would avoid letting him do anything physical making him fat. While Piggy is just a regular boy on the island he is often abused and the other boys rarely listen to him, for what reason, and also Golding uses Piggy to advance the novel also.

A: Piggy’s main role in Lord of the Flies was representation of intelligence , logic, and the voice of reason. He was one of the first characters to appear in the book, and over the course of the story he became a victim of hurtful jibes and eventually Jack and his tribe’s savage behavior. Piggy’s logical and reasonable nature shows when he votes for Ralph to be chief and when he suggests that the beast is not real. Piggy’s death meant the destruction of reason in the boys’ savage society. This is heavily implied when he dies at the hands of Jack’s tribe. Another thing of importance

In,Lord of the Flies, the boys are divided by their physical traits. From the beginning Piggy is setup to stick out or be divergent from the group due to his physical traits.

The boys treat Piggy as an outsider because he promotes civility and acting logically insulting the boys' thoughts and actions. When the boys are meeting at an assembly discussing plans for the island, Piggy describes the boys as acting “Like a pack of kids!” (45). Piggy is using “Like a pack of kids” in a derogatory way. He is saying that it is bad to act like kids, even though they are children, and they should act like formal adults. He goes on to say that in order to be rescued, they must “put first things first and act proper” (45). Piggy is saying that in order to accomplish their goal of being rescued, they must act properly and do tasks in a logical order. In this case, they should have initially built shelters. This illustrates that

Instead of using big, bad, dark vicious characters like monsters or communists, Golding uses young prepubescent boys, many as little as six years. Since children have always been declared a symbol of innocence and ignorant bliss, Golding remarkably twists that symbol explicitly making it known to his readers that no one is innocent; that innocence is merely a delusion. Using children in an unfamiliar twist symbolizes a lot to readers that the theme of malice within human nature is a universal one, there is no innocence. Some of the characters like Piggy at first seem fairly ingenuous; a young slightly round boy who wears glasses and seems relatively shy yet later in the novel he, like all the other boys ruthlessly stab Peter willingly through social conditioning. Piggy is just one example of a good, young, moral boy driven mad by his inner beast and he perfectly symbolizes most of the boys’ own innocence vanishing while on the island.