Piggy Lord Of The Flies Analysis

The character Piggy in William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies serves as the intellectual balance to the emotional leaders of a group of shipwrecked British boys. Ironically, their new society values physical qualities over intellectual attributes whereas it is the rational actions that will lead to their survival. Piggy's actions and the reactions from his fellow survivors foreshadow his eventual death. Lord of the Flies is overflowing with creative

A character in a novel can represent a larger idea in society. In William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies, each character is illustrated to represent a larger idea in society. Ralph represents democracy, Jack represents savagery, and Piggy represents a scientific approach.

I believe that Piggy’s death was one of the most important events in the novel Lord of the flies. To represent the most important scene of the novel, I portrayed the death of one of the main characters, Piggy. To recall an evil sadist, Roger released the rock that flew down from above the cliff and fell on Piggy. “ Piggy fell forty feet and landed across the square red rock in the sea”, the author describes in the book. Definitely, he could not survive this serious fall, so the boy fell down on the rocks and received a serious injury of his head, and after bled to death. As unfortunate as it may seem, Piggy’s death was even more of a problem than it could appear in the beginning. Not only Piggy’s death represented the true cruelty of Roger, but in addition it symbolizes the end of civilization on the island. The way Piggy dies is extremely symbolic; being smashed by an enormous boulder is an incredibly violent way to die, additionally it was futile and unavailing.

     Piggy in the beginning of the book was using his common sense, he was intelligent, he knew what was right from wrong, and he could condone things that made him angry easily. In the beginning of the book, (pg. ) Ralph told everyone his name was Piggy even though Piggy specifically told Ralph that he didn't like to be called that name Piggy later condoned Ralph's action with great ease. Piggy's action's and behavior depended on his glasses. Piggy and his glasses symbolized intelligence, he represents the rational side of civilization. With the glasses it seemed as though Piggy made all the right choices, and he helped Ralph know what needed to be done with the tribe. Without his

Piggy, though not the most memorable in The Lord of the Flies, resonated the most whilst reading this book. Piggy is the stereotypical nerdy kid who seems to be perpetually bullied, even when he is on a deserted island. He has pinkish skin with glasses and asthma with a belly that ate perhaps too much candy from his aunt’s candy shop. While Piggy is almost useless physically, he is very strong mentally, and proves this when he formulates the idea of the conch, but is too weak to blow into it and call everyone. Piggy seems socially awkward, as if he hasn’t spent much times with his fellow peers and rather passed the time with the adults in this life. We see this when Piggy frequently parrots his aunt’s advice such as “My auntie told me not to run… on account of my

Simon and Piggy are brutally murdered by the power-hungry savage, Jack Merridew. The island is never the same after their departures. Ralph reflects on how much the island has crumbled when hiding from Jack and his tribe of savages, "The breaking of the conch and the deaths of Piggy and Simon lay over the island like a vapor. These painted savages would go further and further" (Golding, 184). Both Piggy and Simon have such an important role in keeping the balance on the island. Piggy’s character is symbolic for knowledge and reason; Simon’s for faith and religion. Both of these righteous attributes are lost when the boys leave. Ralph loses all his leverage over the naive littluns when Simon and Piggy pass away. They join Jack’s silly tribe which leaves Ralph outnumbered and ideologically alone. Because of their departure, the basic principles of civilized life are forgotten and beastly savages take over the island. Shakespeare and Golding both emphasize the influence that characters have on the plot of the story. As soon as a significant character is taken away or changed in some way, the environment is reshaped either for better or for worse. The deaths of King Duncan, Simon, and Piggy in Macbeth and Lord of the Flies create consequences that gravely affect other characters, such as Macbeth and Ralph.

In many ways, Piggy is a tool and technology created and used by society; his glasses are used to create fire, which fuels the destruction of most of the island, yet is life itself, serving as warmth, light, protection from the beast, and leads to rescue; he is the primary source of comedy, which has the power to create unity; he is killed by Roger after his glasses are stolen and has nothing more to offer. Piggy is also consistently associated with adults, whether wishing for an adult or calling the other children childish, Golding uses this to relate a maturity to Piggy that can be derived only from civilization. Piggy is a product of society and becomes lost without the order that is consumed by savagery. Simon is symbolic of an unspoken kindness and spirituality found in human instinct, setting the perceived beast, a dead pilot, free, and understanding the essence of human nature through what can be considered a sub conscious interaction with the Lord of Flies. Simon steps up to retrieve Piggy’s glasses after Jack knocks Piggy down, which Golding describes with intense imagery, “Passions beat about Simon on the mountaintop with awful wings,” (60). This suggests the intuition of Simon of the nature of their humanity; the realization of the transformation to savagery is both terrifying and important. In a functional society, Simon is necessary for the success of order and

Lord of the Flies is a novel that was written by William Golding and released in the year 1954. The novel’s plot follows a group of young boys stranded on a tropical island. One of the many boys trapped on the island is called “Piggy” by his peers due to his weight Although Piggy is sometimes rude and petulant, he is intelligent and wise for the majority of the novel.

Uypeng Keo Mr. Wolf Honors English 10 29 October 2014 Chapter 2 Analysis The author’s purpose is to convey the theme of the true characteristics of human nature through portraying an accident when each person unleashes their true hidden nature or in other words the use of an allegory. In that Ralph represents strength, power, civilization, and leadership. While Jack represents selfishness and greed, Piggy represents intellect as well as the more advanced stage of civilization. Even though Piggy proposes logical plans for the entire the group for example lighting the signal flare, not a person responded.

The boys carried on “collecting firewood” and bathing, without worrying about the events the previous night. Piggy was the strongest in mind yet weakest in body, so he was the person that would fall victim to bullying. When Simon died, he tries to avoid bringing the incident up. When Ralph brought up the incident Piggy denied that it was on purpose, but just a mere accident. The significance of this death was that when he died, it brought the boys from civilised to savage, as they ceased to see the difference between a fellow human and an animal (the beast).

A survivor looks like a person, any person going through a difficult situation regardless of what that situation may be. Race, sex, religion, sexual orientation, mental or physical ability or lack thereof does not change what a person has gone through. A survivor looks like a student struggling through classes, a soldier fighting for his or her country, a parent dealing with the hate of a teenager. A survivor looks like a survivor, and a survivor looks like anyone and everyone. Each survivor has a wide range of characteristic they use to enable their survival.

In Lord of The Flies, Piggy is a character that is really smart and with great ideas but the other kids make fun of him because he is fat. His death symbolized the death of civilization and brains in the island. Piggy was ridiculed for being fat, but some of the boys recognized that he was smart. “Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains. Ralph was a specialist in thought now, and could recognize thought in another ” (Golding 71).

In the novel, Lord of the flies,written by William Golding illustrates symbolism through the life of the boys; therefore we have simon's isolation and piggy's intelligence and jacks chaos.

Simon’s conscience keeps Piggy in line even when dealing with savage Jack. Towards the end of the novel, the other boys savagely murder Simon; when the boys kill Simon they also kill their conscience, they kill the rules and implications set upon them in order to keep society civilized and from this point until the boys get rescued their savage nature completely takes over and nothing holds them back any longer.

Lord of the Flies is a novel that brings to forefront the savagery that resides inside humans and grows with lack of civilization and order. William Golding uses the philosophical element of the innate human state through this allegorical text to emphasize what the loss of societal constraints does to a child’s psyche. One of the most gruesome passages in the book is the manner in which Simon is killed by the boys.