What Does The Glasses Symbolize In Lord Of The Flies

Lord of the Flies is a gruesome, dark and intense novel written as a political allegory by the author William Golding. In this novel Lord of the Flies, there are various significant symbols the most being Piggy’s glasses because of how it allows a logical smart boy to see and perform tasks, it becomes a tool of innovation being able to start fires, and how it leads to the destruction of an island.

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.

Would you let the desire for power corrupt you like it did to the boys in the Lord of the Flies? In this novel, William Golding illustrates how the longing for power has an ability to corrupt the minds of the innocent and how the symbolic meaning of Piggy’s glasses, the conch shell and fire can change over time to help enable or drive this desire for power.

In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Piggy’s glasses represents power. During the night, Jack and his accomplices come to steal Piggy’s glasses to make his own fire. “They came for something else… Piggy’s broken glasses” (Golding 236). Jack with his savages attack Ralph, SamnEric and Piggy. After the fight, the boys realized that they didn’t take the conch, rather “they came for something else”. Jack and his savages ended up stealing “Piggy’s broken glasses”. This shows that the the glasses are valued more than the conch. Jack’s decision on what to steal shows that having Piggy’s glasses is having power because throughout the book that is Jack’s most desire. On the way to castle rock, Piggy is lead to the destination and demands Ralph

Lord of the Flies Body Paragraph 3 In the book Lord of The Flies, by William Golding, the use of Piggy’s glasses played an important role of the power of intelligence in society, and to keep the hope of being rescued. When we first hear of Piggy in the story, this quote shows us how he is. “Piggy wiped his glasses and adjusted them on his button nose.

Piggy's glasses were used many times throught out the novel, where the boys of the island in fact found good use in them, and treated his glasses as a symbol of discovery,innovation, and source of civilization on the island such as creating the fire. Once piggy's glasses break, the innovation, and civilization is gone.

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.

Piggy’s glasses is the most powerful item on the island, which symbolize the knowledge and intelligence. In addition, it is also an important

Friedrich Nietzsche once said, “If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you”. Lord of the Flies is a novel by William Golding written in 1954, centering on a group of boys stuck on an island who unsuccessfully attempt to govern themselves. They struggle against fear of outside forces as well as themselves, and the reader observes as they lose their innocence and slowly decline from civility in all its forms. In his novel, Lord of the Flies, William S. Golding portrays the theme that society can be corrupted because individuals are naturally corrupt through his use of the symbols of the beast, Piggy’s glasses, and the fire.

In the beginning of the Lord of the Flies we are introduced to two young boys, who have survived a tragic plane crash. The aircraft was an evacuation plane and it was transporting the group of boys out of England. One of the boys named Piggy is trying to catch up to the other boy, Ralph. Piggy is described as being very fat and shorter than Ralph. He wears “thick spectacles” (William Golding 7) and he is the first to determine that they are on an island. Piggy is also the one that knows how to use the conch shell and comes up with the use of it, which is to call everyone else to the beach. He believed the conch created order. Once the conch had been used we are introduced to more boys and they gain interest in Piggy’s glasses. They discover that Piggy’s glasses can start fires and they refer to them as “burning glasses” (Golding 40). The boys also rejoiced when they discovered that his glasses could create the fires. They proclaimed, “His specs - use them as burning glasses!” (Golding 38). The spectacles symbolize Piggy’s intelligence, which distinguished him from the others. Without the glasses Piggy would be blind and he would not know what to do. Although Piggy is portrayed as being physically weak and not having a great chance at survival, he is the only one that seemed to know a few survival skills. He is the one that created the fire, sundial and shelter. Without his glasses he would not be ‘intelligent’. His appearance and personality cause him to be shunned

In the novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, Piggy’s glasses represent both weakness and power. The symbolism for the glasses progresses throughout the novel.

Piggy’s glasses in the novel Lord of the Flies represent many things such as advancement, innovation, and discovery. The glasses symbolize not only Piggy’s knowledge but also the way the children see things and how they become blind and can no longer function like a civilized society. When the glasses lens is cracked and broken in foreshadows the destruction of civilization and Piggy’s death. Although there are many symbolic objects throughout the novel Piggy’s glasses prove to have the greatest significant in many ways.

    To Piggy, the owner of the spectacles, the glasses at first represented the basic ability to see. They were thought no more of than a helpful accessory. “His specs- use them as burning glasses!” (40, Golding)  As the story progressed and the once well-mannered group slowly turned into

The glasses represent intelligence, perspective and thought in the society. The boys are always taking the glasses and even break them, which symbolizes a disregard for intelligence and thought that some of the boys have. Towards the end of the book, Jack and the hunters raid the village where Piggy and Ralph were staying in order to get fire to cook their meat. After they raided, Jack walks down the beach where “from his left hand dangled Piggy's broken glasses” (168). The broken glasses symbolize the broken perspective the hunters have.

Piggy’s glasses symbolize knowledge. The glasses also represent society’s reliance upon technology because humans are sometimes weak. The glasses were created to make Piggy’s eyesight better than before. His life is better with the glasses because he can see, without them I don’t know what he would do. Jack slaps the glasses off of Piggy’s face, and in that