Piggy Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

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. The disregard for Piggy and his glasses together also illustrate the decline.
The fate of Piggy’s glasses served as an example of their physical decline into savagery. The first incident that indicated their

The next incident occurred after the two rivalling leaders, Jack and Ralph, had an argument and the group split into two. Jack’s group had realized that they needed Piggy’s glasses to start a fire. That night Jack’s group had taunted and attacked Piggy and the other ‘biguns’ in Ralph’s group, then stole the glasses.
Golding described Jack and the glasses’ fate after the incident as, “The Chief led them, trotting steadily, exulting in his achievement. He was chief now in truth; and he made stabbing motions with his spear.
From his left hand dangled Piggy’s broken glasses.” After the vicious attack on Ralph’s group, Jack led his tribe and ‘exulted in his achievement’ and dangled Piggy’s broken glasses beside him. This indicated just how far from their former civilization they had gone. Piggy’s glasses not only represented the decline physically, but also symbolically.
Piggy’s glasses’ fate illustrated the decline into savagery, symbolically. Piggy’s glasses symbolized advancement, sight (metaphor for knowledge), civilization, and was the only remaining relic of their former lives. The glasses were used for fire, as a representation of Piggy’s intellect and a symbol

Piggy was ‘blinded’ after his glasses were stolen and that represented the blindness of Jacks tribe, to the evil in which they were succumbing too. Piggy’s glasses, with the addition of Piggy himself, both were also an example of the decline into savagery.
The disregard for Piggy and his glasses, together illustrate the decline into savagery. The glasses were a characterization of Piggy himself, without them he was useless, and the world he represented was useless too. They had kept Piggy purely for his main attribute, knowledge; otherwise they would have ostracized him completely. When they had first needed fire, they had swarmed Piggy and taken them against his own free will, Piggy was always the kid who everyone picked on. So, when Jack was feeling humiliated in Chapter 4, he had taken it out on Piggy and broke the glasses. The treatment descended into further cruelty when Jack had attacked and stolen the glasses from him, at the end of chapter 10.
When Ralph’s group had confronted Jacks tribe to get back the glasses, it turned into a fight and resulted in Piggy’s death. As the civilization was falling apart, naturally the representation of that civilization would fall apart