The last significant symbol from the book was Piggy’s glasses. Used throughout the book to both help Piggy see and to light the fire, Piggy’s glasses played a very important role. During the course of Lord of the Flies, it was evident that Piggy was the most rational boy on the island, even though he was often ridiculed by his peers. Piggy saw clearly when others lost sight of themselves. The real downfall of the story began when Piggy’s glasses were stolen from him, when Jack Merridew and his tribe of savages attacked him.
Within the allegorical novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding symbolically lays out the social prejudices and morés of intelligence, order, general kindness and brutality. The book continues to be relevant today. When choosing a leader, society focuses on how he/she looks and what he/she says. If someone says just what people want to hear and is rather good looking, it’s very likely that person will be chosen as leader. Piggy is representative of intelligence within society.
To survive, rescue is the first thing that pops into mind, not constant brawling. The Lord of the Flies is a novel about a group of boys who were involved in a plane crash. The crash had no adult survivors, so its up to the boys to form some sort of government and find a way to get off of the island. William Golding uses Piggy’s glasses, darkness, and a creature named the beast to convey the boys to savagery, and lead the fight for power. Piggy’s glasses are mentioned all throughout the novel, a symbol of clarity, keeping Piggy from digressing to the savagery the others had due to him seeing more clearly, but others seem to be far more primitive.
In the fiction novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, English schoolboys 6-12 years old crash land in a plane on an uninhabited island as they leave their war-torn country. An older boy named Piggy takes charge of organizing the boys, however, Piggy’s days of leadership are short-numbered as others soon cast his opinions aside believing they are unnecessary worries. As a result of his death symbolizing the end of all reason, Piggy illustrates the negative effects of lacking an open mind to create a system of rules in society. In an environment that is rapidly changing from seemingly innocent boys to savage animals, Piggy is able to keep his sanity and common sense that helped suppress the amount of chaos caused by the boys up until his
Peter Drucker once said “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes”(BrainyQuote). Indeed, many leaders enjoy being popular. But popularity is not the most important trait in a leader; people should look at a leader’s results rather than his/her ability to speak. In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, many characters have the potential to be leaders. Yet, judging from his characteristics, Piggy would be the best candidate for leadership.
The novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding is about a plane that crashes on a deserted island, whilst transporting a group of young boys. The group of boys were the only survivors. Without any adult supervision the survivors had to govern themselves, and the results were disastrous. The eldest being about 12, and the youngest being about 6, they slowly decline from their known civilized ways, into ones that are savage and cruel. The fate of Piggy’s glasses illustrates this decline as a physical, as well as symbolical representation.
Piggy is truly the brains behind Ralph’s leadership on the island. He comes up with all of the ideas, such as calling the group together by using the shell and taking names as a source of accountability; however, he is unable to carry out his ideas due to a lack in assertiveness. “We can use this to call the others. Have a meeting. They’ll come when they hear us” ( 16) .
The Specifically Symbolic Spectacles William Golding wrote the Lord of the Flies to illustrate the issues of savagery and loss of civilization by using symbolism throughout the novel. Golding used Piggy and his spectacles as a symbol to represent the voice of reason and logic between the two conflicting societies. Piggy’s glasses were clean upon their arrival to the island, but as time progressed, they consequently became dirtier. Piggy is introduced as the intellectually gifted “fat boy” who has physical and medical issues, which make it difficult for him to fit in with the other boys. His intelligence is constantly put down or interrupted because they are in a society where brilliance is disregarded.
Piggy believes, since there are no parents around they wouldn’t be able to survive by themselves, he ignores that people call him an “ass” (Golding 9) and fat, and engages in standing up for himself which affects the novel positively. Piggy believes there were no parents around and that they wouldn’t be able to survive by themselves. “They’re all dead, said Piggy, an this island. Nobody don’t know we’re here” (Golding 17).
Through the character Piggy, William Golding portrays a lack of confidence and what results when weakness is shown. “His specs-use them as burning glasses!” (pg 40) Because the boys had taken his glasses before, Piggy realized that his feelings were not being considered and that he would need to constantly be watching his back. His glasses were a real safety blanket.
Piggy ignored the the other characters telling him to shut up and stepped up and spoke his mind during important situations. This is important to the story because it shows how Piggy ignores criticism and the characters thoughts on him by stating what he thinks during arguments or confrontations. This trait effects the other characters in a negative way because the more things Piggy states his opinion on the more things the characters can disagree and dislike Piggy for. Overall Piggy’s third trait effects the novel in a negative way because in the novel Piggy ends up dying because of opposition didn’t agree with the things he stood for and
There are many different forms of intelligence: political, scientific, social and many more. All humans use their intelligence in different ways. In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, this idea is explored when a group of boys who survived a plane crash get trapped on an island in the midst of a world at war. Some boys on the island are clearly smarter than others. One character, Piggy, is a character who is evidently the most intelligent on the island, uses his intelligence for good and bad.
I suppose it was about three months ago when our plane crashed and we were stranded on the island. I heard from others that the plane was shot and part of it went up in flames as it crashed but our group was able to survive because we were in the other part of the plane. I’m not quite sure how many of us were on the island in the beginning. There might have been about twenty-five of us if I had to guess. It was Piggy’s job to keep track of everyone when we first landed on the island.
In Romeo & Juliet they made a plan to escape and in the Lord of the flies they had the same objective to escape. In both novels they fail to realize that the actions they made comes with a price for example in Romeo & Juliet they made a plan to escape Verona but they did think of consequences and problems that could occur in other words their actions were not thought out fully. Lord of the flies and Romeo & Juliet story relate to each other in many ways. In Both novels they make mistakes but in Lord of the flies the biggest mistake is when the hunters leave the fire to hunt the pig. When this happens Ralph sees a ship in the distance and rushes to the fire noticing that it was out so he goes to yell at jack saying “there was a ship.
In the novel Lord Of The Flies, by WIlliam Golding, Piggy is characterized as intelligent. For example Piggy is shown as intelligent in LOTF such as in chapter 1 when Piggy told Ralph who had the conch that, “ ‘ We can use this to call the others. Have a meeting. They’ll come when they hear us ‘ “ (Golding 16). This is an excellent way of showing that Piggy is intelligent as he thought of something Ralph didn’t, which is a large foreshadow of what is to come.
