How Is Piggy Presented In Lord Of The Flies

Evil lives in all of us, it’s whether you let it out or not that counts. This strongly shows in the novel, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of young boys are evacuated from a nuclear war (World War II) in Britain. The plane crashes on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean, with no civilization in sight. The group has to learn to survive, but with all this freedom and no supervision, it's hard to focus on the important thing, survival. Some kids are losing sight of what’s necessary and they start to diverge into groups of their own. The Lord of the Flies shows the idea that when you stop listening to intellect and rationalism society falls.

Showing Piggy through his action and emotions helps show that when no intellect

Just because he doesn’t look the part of a leader, people treat him differently, they pick on him. Piggy was with Ralph from the start, he was on his side. He was his political adviser, he told Ralph what to do and Ralph spoke to them aloud. Ralph was just the voice in front of Piggy’s doing. Piggy was the one who found the order and found the peace. In the first assembly, at the beginning of the novel, Piggy stated, “I was with him when he found the couch, I was with him before anyone else was” (Golding 24). Piggy stated before everyone turned on him, that he was there with Ralph for all of it. Piggy was self-conscious, he wanted Ralph to stay by his side and not leave him. Ralph grew and became a coward, the second Jack started to become more of the leader type. “I been talking, Ralph, and you just stood there like–" Softly, looking at Piggy and not seeing him, Ralph spoke to himself” (Golding 128). Piggy was hurt, not physically but emotionally. His suspected friend did not stand up for him or even try to. Ralph had not done anything; he stood there and watched his so-called friend get ganged up on. Ralph was not being a friend, he was as much at fault as Jack

The beast was portrayed many different times in the novel in many different forms. The beast began as a little thing, a shadow in the night. It eventually grew to become all they think about, it consumed them. In the beginning, the beast was just a suspicion, it was a story a couple of children told, and not much thought went into the topic. “Beastie?” “A snake-thing. Ever so big. He saw it” (Golding 35). Most of the boys believed the beast was real, they got far enough to say they saw it and believed it. The beast was a story everyone chose to believe, no one knew if it was truly there or not. Towards the middle of the novel, some boys agreed the beast was real and some still doubted it. “You shut up, young Simon! Why couldn’t you say there wasn’t a beast?"(Golding 93). Simon claimed that the beast was real and Ralph didn’t like the continuous controversial debates and got angry at Simon. Simon has everybody now doubting themselves, which is exactly what Ralph was trying so hard not to do. Ralph was angry that Simon had spoken the truth and began to ruin the peace. The beast towards the end of the book was very different from the beginning. “You’re a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!”(Golding 179). Ralph calls Jack a beast; he manipulates every boy to be on his side or he threatens them that they need to be. Ralph is