Imagine you are a twelve-year-old and you are on a deserted island with a bunch of kids your age, you have great ideas but because you are not big and strong no one listens that is exactly how the character Piggy felt. First, Piggy has no qualities that kids stranded on a deserted island view as useful. Secondly, all of the character, with the exception of Piggy, adhere the principal of survival of the fittest in order to survive. Finally, Piggy is used as a symbol to demonstrate the idea that humanity is reliant on power to escalate their country instead of trying to advance their country through science and mathematics. The character Piggy is part of a broader spectrum that one might not pick up on the first read of the novel. Piggy has no qualities that kids that young would appreciate so he is ignored through …show more content…
My beginning reason, is the fact that you can compare Jack to Tojo in World War II, Tojo promised his soldiers honor and vast amounts of land to rebuild Japans power, while Jack made the promise of unlimited meat to anyone who joined him and that his group would be more powerful than Ralph and Piggys group. However, what does piggy have to do with this, well Piggy can be viewed as the emperor of Japan since he did not want directly in the war but he couldn’t do anything to stop it but he tried to get his general to stop attacking but no one listened to him, and Piggy tried to get everyone to stop fighting but no one listened to him. Finally, the in the story Piggy is the last verge of humanity before everyone goes savage and when he dies everyone on the island goes crazy, turning entirely savage, such as forgetting their names that they were called by their loved ones. In conclusion, this is why I believe that Piggy was a symbol of something greater than