Piggy's Allegory

Free from the rules and structures of civilization and society, the boys on the island in Lord of the Flies descend into savagery. Golding’s experience in World War II had a profound effect on his view of humanity and the evils of which it was capable. After the war, Golding resumed teaching and started to write novels. His first and greatest success came with Lord of the Flies. The Lord of The Flies is a great example of an allegory. Golding uses Piggy? Specs to represent intelligence, rationality, and common sense; which are all traits attributed to a civilized human being who thrives in a society that is bound by rules and laws. The glasses evidently render Piggy as the most civilized child on the island as he has the ability to rationalize prior to his actions and evaluate the major conflicts on the island. Because the glasses denote judgment, intuition, and perception, the wearer is also depicted as such. As the boys start to disregard Piggy and exclude him from activities, they are also ostracizing the cogent sense that they have until now, been accustomed to. Throughout the novel, the specs are tainted with dirt, which is a

Lastly there is a connection between the lust for hunting and the lust for the forbidden fruit. Jack and his tribe are clearly not satisfied with the heavenly setting and become obsessed with hunting and getting meat, even though they have food supply from all the fruit trees. William Golding uses great diction to show the pleasure the boys get from hunting, describing their animistic urges and presenting the boys loss of innocence, it says “the sow staggered her way ahead of them, bleeding and mad, and the hunters followed, wedded to her in lust, excited by the long chase and the dropped blood”