Who Is Piggy In Lord Of The Flies

One of the major characters in the novel “Lord of the Flies”, written by William Golding, is a twelve-year-old boy named Piggy. The character named Piggy is a non-athletic boy, civilized, loyal, brains of the group, physically weak, and a follower. Piggy’s character in the allegorical novel is intellectually strong yet physically weak. His goals throughout the novel are to be rescued off the island and to preserve the group of stranded boys to remain civilized. Two difficulties Piggy experienced with is that none of the boys would listen to him or would make fun of him. He feels that the group of boys on the island is being immature and that the boys need to respect the rules that, Ralph, the elected leader established. Piggy helps the boys

He’s the sole boy on the island that has asthma, and knows how to pronounce the word asthma compared to the other boys who pronounce it and say “ass-mar”. Piggy is a unique character because he thinks and acts like a grown-up. In the beginning of the novel, Piggy and Ralph discovered a conch and Piggy proposed that Ralph uses the conch to “call the others on the island to have a meeting.” Piggy relies on the conch to be heard from the others and believes that the social convention will have an outcome. But whenever the group of boys isn’t listening to him in an assembly, he gets annoyed that no one listens to his ideas and starts giving them a tirade. “How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?”(Golding 56). If a dispute happens between the gather occurs, Piggy tries to step in and list an instance of what the group has done wrong and what they need to do to survive. For example, the boys went wild when Ralph decided to make a signal fire, but the first thing Piggy said they should’ve done was to build shelters. Such as when the boys discovered a “beast” among them the boys became scared and no longer wanted to go up the mountain to maintain the signal fire. Piggy was the only one with a brilliant mind and thought of building a new signal fire down by the beach. “Only Piggy could have the intellectual daring to suggest moving the fire from the mountain.” (Golding 181). If Piggy wasn’t involved in

George Bernard Shaw once said, “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” (#124). The quote from George Bernard Shaw is a philosophy of life for Piggy with his experience on the island. This quote sums up the philosophy of life of Piggy’s experience since he was the only reasonable young boy, but the progress and work were only done by unreasonable boys. Piggy is a character that doesn’t want to abandon on what he was taught about life and being educated. He wants to try to preserve the rules that have been established on the island, common sense in the group of young boys, and for the conch to not lose its purpose to be heard. Since Piggy, the reasonable young boy he adapted to the world, but the others try to adapt the island for to themselves. For instance, Jack, one of the boys on the island that would pick on Piggy the most wanted to form rules and punish whoever broke them. Jack is the unreasonable boy that made the island adapt to himself and advanced in the progress of work because he hunted the adult female pig. Piggy’s motivation and philosophy of life the two together has had him adapt to the world itself, but the other boys on the island stand in the way to allow him to be