Piggy Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy” (Golding 225). In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, he uses the theme of order versus chaos to show that good has the capacity to become evil. It starts with the boys’ beginnings on the island, to the breakdown of their society, to the tragedies that unfold their civilization. The boys are victims of a deteriorating civilization that turns them into ruthless and more animalistic characters without any law, order or control.

(Law and Order) "We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything. So we've got to do the right things." (Golding 42)

Obama, Hitler, and Queen Elizabeth all are leaders for different types of governments. Similar to The Lord of the Flies. In The Lord of the Flies, many characters represent many types of governments. The novel ,The Lord of the Flies, is a political allegory for three main reasons, Piggy represents a meritocracy, Jack represents a dictatorship, and Ralph represents a democracy.

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

In this first chapter of Lord of the Flies, a group of boys find themselves stranded on an island. The characters of Piggy and Ralph are introduced and they immediately get off to a rough start. As an attempt to gain Ralph’s attention, Piggy reveals a secret about himself–that back in school, the other boys used to call him Piggy. As Ralph is laughing, Piggy states, “‘So long as you don’t tell the others–‘“ (Golding 11). Against Piggy's wishes, Ralph proceeds to call a meeting.

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a group of British boys suddenly become stranded on an island, all alone, forced to form their own social system. Throughout the novel, William Golding reveals his main character 's strengths and weaknesses in their attempts to lead. The character Piggy demonstrates the benefits and limits of intelligence in maintaining civil order.

“Life is scientific, that’s what it is. In a year of two when the war’s over they’ll be traveling to Mars and back. I know there isn’t no beast, not with claws and all that, I mean but I know there isn’t no fear, either. Unless we get frightened of people.” (84). Lord of the Flies is a novel where civilization is involved and it was found surrounded by a group of little boys under-aged teenagers who try to govern themselves on an island. The boys were found in a plane crash on a island and they try to create a society based on their own rules and laws.The boys: Ralph, Jack, Piggy, and the rest of the boys try to work out their differences and make a civilized little group in order to survive. Everyone on the island wants to survive and hope to be rescued to come home to their families. As the book went on, you see changes in the characters as they are influenced from others or in society. The characters develop as the book goes on and they experiment new beginnings when they are put in difficult situations. William Golding, in the novel of Lord of the Flies, uses the characters, Jack and Ralph, to reveal that human nature is naturally corrupted.

Throughout the story, the conch is used to call assemblies and keep order. When a group of boys crash and end up stranded on an unknown Island two characters - Piggy and Ralph find a conch. Ralph later uses the conch to develop a sense of democracy within assemblies. Rules have been made pertaining to the proper use. When holding the conch you are granted a right to speak without interruption. Upon hearing the call of the conch the boys gather together for a meeting. Golding writes, “He faced the place of assembly and put the conch to his lips [...] The others were waiting and came straight away” (Golding, 78). This quote proves the conch provides stability and power because the boys drop everything they are doing when hearing the call. Golding also writes, “The booing rose and died again as Piggy lifted the white, magic shell” (Goulding, 180). This quote shows how everybody is respectful towards the conch and the rules that follow.

The boys try to create structure as part of their goal to survive. Piggy, a passive, intelligent, and rational young man is an asset to the group; however, the group does not embrace Piggy because the boys can not see past his outer appearance of being fat and wearing glasses. Instead, the group treats Piggy like an outcast.

The character speaking in the quote is being called by the insecurity of his nickname, Piggy. The other kids did not bother asking his real name because they cannot see him past his image which is being a fat boy. Piggy’s identity and personality towards the others was determined by his image which is dense do to the fact that they do not acknowledge his intelligence and knowledge of survival because he is not considered to be fun causing him to be a social outcast his intelligence is not noticed by the others.

Chirst figure represents all that are innately good as a subtle, yet suggestive figure which parallels to Jesus Chirst. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Simon is intended to be a Chirst-like figure who demonstrates generosity, omniscience, and benevolence. Although Simon is not directly described as the Chirst himself, in these two passages from chapters three and nine, literal figures of Simon are given to compare him to the Christ through: his generosity towards the outcasts, being the only one to confront the truth, and denial of revealing the truth by the boys. Initially, the biblical parallel of Chirst and Simon’s benevolene is represented in the earlier passage through the description of Simon’s physical appearance.

This excerpt shows that when Piggy has the conch everyone goes silent. Even though the boys have become mostly savage they still have remnants of their old selves when they first arrived on the island. The tribe looks at the conch as a symbol of government or a law that rules over them. This symbol is used to show the intentions of the characters and how they have changed over time, from this piece of evidence we can see they still hold onto some old traits just much as they have lost some.

Ralph had stopped smiling and was pointing into the lagoon. Something creamy lay among the ferny weeds. “A stone.” “No. A shell.”

In this political allegory “Lord of the Flies” there’s one boy that looks different from the rest and he is judged because of that. Piggy is the most organized and has the best ideas about how to organize themselves. Yet the other boys never listen to him and all they do is abuse him. Golding is using Piggy to advance the novel’s theme because Piggy is always coming up with good ideas and no one will listen because of Piggy’s size and shape so I feel like Golding is saying don’t judge a book by its cover. Overall, Piggy is not listened to about trying to organize the boys because of appearance and the others change to savagery.

At the heart of the novel, ‘Lord of the Flies,’ a question of human nature arises through many depictions of the boys responses to certain situations. Ultimately this presents a complex articulation of humanity’s potential for evil. Famous English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, presented and believed in the idea that, “Humans are innately selfish beings, with the amoral nature of humanity in pursuing their selfish ambitions,” (Theory of Government). This novel, written by William Golding, begins on a serene island where the boys attempt to create a civil and orderly society. Each boy’s taught behaviors are clearly represented through their initial actions, however, as time wore on their innate impulses began to lurk.