Piggy's Spectacles In Lord Of The Flies

But Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains.” (Golding 83) “Seeing” is the most important thing about Piggy. Without his glasses, he can’t “see” and thus he and the world he represents is useless. Likewise, Piggy's glasses also symbolize technology and innovation as they are used to light the fire and they allow Piggy, who is quite intelligent himself,

    The spectacles of Piggy are essential for the storyline and play a role in the knowing of the downfall of order and the takeover of chaos. Although each character uses them differently and has a different attitude towards them, the glasses give the correct insight of the scientific technological advancement that is available in the surrounding world, but not on the

William Golding s novel Lord of the Flies significantly symbolizes characters, objects and the setting to represent our world as a whole. Golding uses those symbols to make the island similar to society and to show the difference between living in a civilised society and savagery. The novel takes place on an island during World War II, this is significant since the isolation forms a sort of civilization and community, a sort of microcosm to the real world and to human civilization.

Piggy’s glasses symbolize reason and innovation throughout the novel; Golding most commonly associates them with the old camp on the beach. Piggy uses his glasses to help the other boys “see”, both physically and intellectually, the best and most reasonable way forward. However, any time they are removed from the beach, chaos is sure to ensue. The first time, when the boys go to the mountain to light the signal fire, Jack and the other boys pry the glasses off Piggy’s face so they can use them as burning glasses. While this does help to start the signal fire so they can be seen by a ship, it traumatizes Piggy since even at this point in the book, Jack scares him. Despite the good intentions for the fire, it soon goes wild and even results in the death of a littlun.

Lord of the Flies is a chilling work about human savagery and the flow of power. Golding uses symbolism, characterization, and description to illustrate the occurrences and the underlying themes in the novel. The work has an ominous but irresistible tone that Golding lays out through his description of the island. Golding makes the island seem sinister and irresistible by writing,” The shore was fledged with palm trees. These stood or leaned or reclined against the light and their green feathers were a hundred feet up in the air . . . Behind this was the darkness of the forest proper and the open space of the scar.” (Golding 4-5) His description of the palms being feathered gives an enticing pull to the beach, but the darkness of the

The world most people want is one that is fair, kind and has no conflict. In reality, that isn’t the case and while a lot of people want that kind of world, it is out of reach. Conflict today has become almost normal, and that’s the most tragic and disheartening aspect of the human race and the world we live in today. Throughout Lord of The Flies by William Golding, Piggy is the most sane child. Piggy and his glasses represent the world we wish we could have, a world where you don’t see news stories about school shootings and violence in foreign countries.

Lord of the Flies is a book that uses symbolism. One notable example of this is Piggy’s glasses. Everyone on the island thought that Piggy was not useful. He was not helping the group survive. He did not like to help when the others were gathering supplies to build their huts or hunting for food. The group thought it was not an issue to take Piggy’s glasses to start the fire.In the novel it stated “Piggy took off his damaged glasses and cleaned the remaining lens.”(page 101). This shows that piggy's glasses were already cracked where he could not see out of them anyway. His glasses turned out to be one of the main reason the kids survived. Without Piggy’s glasses they would not have been able to start the signal fire and ships would not have found them.

The frame had made a deep, pink V on the bridge.” (Golding 11) this quote shows that Piggy’s glasses are an essential part of him and his identity, and also one of the characteristics that he has. Later in the novel when the boys were becoming more savage like. This is demonstrated when Jack hit Piggy and his glasses broke. Piggy said,” One sides broken.”

This change in attitude and personality suggests that the boys can act like savages while they are painted. The boys are exempt from the constraining rules of society while painted, so their whole demeanor transforms. Despite the boys becoming more savage-like, Piggy’s glasses still exist on the island for a short time. Piggy’s glasses are a symbol for intelligence, and when given to the wrong people, can be used for bad things. Jack really wants the glasses for himself so he can have the power to start a fire whenever he wants, but Piggy knows better than to give them to Jack.

Symbolism is a very important factor in many books. The use of symbolism in William Golding’s novel The Lord of the Flies is the most essential aspect to the function of the story. At first glance you may not think the symbols are very important, but with some in-depth thought you can see how it is necessary to explain the microcosm of an island.

The island in Lord of the Flies mirrors modern society and the downward spiral of individual characters is evident through

Lord of the Flies has more symbols than just the ones in this essay. Goulding shows the

The island symbolizes the whole world. The island is like the Bible’s Garden of Eden. At first, the island and the garden are beautiful places, with food and peace. Humans, though, make terrible mistakes in both places. In Lord of The Flies, the boys become killers before adults come to take them of the island.

Lord of the Flies: William Golding has said that his novel Lord of the Flies was symbolic from the beginning until the end when the boys are rescued. During the course of the novel these symbols are constantly changing, giving us a new interpretation of the island society.

In viewing the aspects of the island society, the author William Golding's Lord of the Flies as a symbolic microcosm of society. He chooses to set the children alone in an unsupervised world, leaving them to learn ‘ the ways of the world’ in a natural setting first hand. Many different perspectives can also be considered. Golding's island of marooned youngsters becomes a microcosm. The island represents the individual human and the various characters represent the elements of the human psyche.