Foreshadowing In Lord Of The Flies, By William Golding

In the novel, Lord of the Flies, Piggy, a “fat” character in the book, is known to be one of the few children to still have a tie with civilization and intelligence. However, because his glasses represent the intelligence he has since they are now beginning to break, so is the intelligence all of the boys have on the island. This loss of intelligence, or lack of humanity, foreshadows some major character deaths in the novel, including Piggy and Simon’s deaths, who is also an exceptionally kind and gentle kid on the island. By knowing what foreshadowing is and grabbing clues from similar novels, like Romeo and Juliet, the reader deciphers this from the text. First, the reader has to fully understand what foreshadowing is in a sense. The effect

Whenever Piggy threatens Jack, “Just you wait-” he said. “Jack mimicked the whine” (Golding 72), showing he didn’t take it seriously. Nevertheless, in a later chapter, it shows Jack, now the chief of a new tribe, ambushing Ralph and them and leaving, and “his left hand” is “dangled Piggy’s broken glasses” (Golding 168). The sentence proves the thesis heavily. As the reader knows, Piggy and his glasses represent intelligence on the island, and out of the boys, he is the smartest. As long as his glasses were intact, the boys still connect to civilization and society... But now that his glasses were broken, this shows that all ties to their old past lives sever them away from the boys while they slowly become wilder and wilder. The reader can also tell this because of how Jack is now a tribe leader, trying to steal from Ralph and Piggy just so he can steal away their right to build a fire so they can eventually get rescued. Because they are now severed, Jack and his tribe have gone crazy, so it foreshadows that they may do something drastic, like killing another person, Piggy, and

Simon is the only kid on the island who still cares for the littluns by feeding them and making them shelter and a well-rested night's sleep. Even so, not all wonderful experiences can last with Golding, so he decides to play a bit of foreshadowing with Simon’s death with a pig head. When Simon had gotten lost in the woods, he accidentally stumbles across Jack’s sacrifice to “The Beast”, which is a pig’s head on a stick. The Pig head had begun threatening Simon because “we are going to have fun on this island! So don’t try it..” Eventually, the Pig’s head, calling itself ‘Lord of the Flies”, starts listing names, names like “Jack and Roger and Maurice and Robert and Bill and Piggy and Ralph. Do you. See?” (Golding 144). In this scene, the Lord of the Flies is threatening Simon, implying that the boys will eventually kill him, even Piggy and Ralph, because they want to have “fun” on this island. Golding makes it extremely obvious with this scene because he wants the reader to know something terrible is coming for Simon, and he knows it. Because as the readers may know, “The Beast” is really the boys themselves, and if the Lord of the Flies is talking to Simon, it’s really