Death Of Piggy In Lord Of The Flies

The Lord Of The Flies by William Golding is a book about a plane full of boys crashing on an island. The boys are by themselves no adults so they have to survive on their own and establish their own government. Piggy is one of the first characters we meet as a boy with poor eyesight, a weight problem and asthma so the readers already like him even if no one else likes him. Piggy is the closest thing the boys have to an adult on the island. Throughout the story Piggy embraces the character traits of being intellectually intelligent, Mature and loyal.

“Someone was throwing stones: Roger was dropping them, his one hand still on the lever... Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever... The rock struck Piggy” (Golding 180-181). Roger murders Piggy in Lord of the Flies by William Golding, and he does so without a reason. Roger, Piggy, and many other young boys are stuck on a uncivilized island after a plane crash.

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) .

Human behaviors are easy to be changed by the experiences and environment. As the time passes by, the changed behaviors can be worse or better than before. However, most people become worse because of the specific experiences in their life time. In Lord of the Flies, the changes of behavior are occurred obviously in the characters of Jack, Roger, and Ralph.

Humans do not share the traits of empathy or hostility, but the trait of greed instead. Greed is at the core of all humans on earth. Greed is the reason behind the acts of evil that are shown in the book, Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Before launching the boulder at piggy, Golding describes him as, Roger with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever” (Golding 181). Roger isn’t evil to please others or to follow orders.

Imagine you are a twelve-year-old and you are on an abandoned island with a bunch of kids your age, you have an abundance of great ideas but, because you are not built and muscular no one heeds your advice, 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 principle of survival of the fittest in order to survive. Finally, Piggy is used 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 interpretation of the novel.

A lot has happened since my last entry. We moved our base to Castle Rock. Ralph, Piggy, Sam and Eric came to try to get us to join back into their clan. Things got rough. We captured Sam and Eric.

Humans have a way of dehumanize people who are different without even knowing it they can just casually calling people names or make fun of their physical appearance. While, Piggy and Ralph were walking and talking Ralph wanted to know what Piggy's name was. Piggy did not want to tell Ralph his name because he said he doesn't want to “ be called what they used to call in school” (11). The fact that Piggy does not want to tell us his name is because they have already belittle him by his physical appearance. After, that accident happened Ralph wanted Piggy to get the name of the rest of the guys that were on the island.

In the novel the Lord Of The Flies written by William Golding the role of government changes throughout the book because Democracy is a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections (Merriam Webster.com). In the Lord Of The Flies democracy occurred in the beginning of the book when Ralph was elected as chief because they all voted for him to become chief (Golding, 19) that's how Golding represents the act of democracy. Ralph as a character represents democracy because firstly he tries to give everyone a voice and opinion when he used the conch as an act of civilization as well. Ralph also tries to

“How does William Golding use a range of literary techniques to explore how characters use their power to control others in Lord of the Flies?” The classic 1954 book “Lord of the Flies’, written by William Golding demonstrates powerful literary techniques in order to explore how characters use and abuse their power to control others. Three techniques that illustrate this theme include: how the setting influences the characters actions, how the boys are characterized, and finally, the symbols they come to use as an element of power.

Lord of the Flies by William Golding takes place in the 1950’s, during World War II. A plane carrying a group of British schoolboys was shot and crash landed on an island. No adults survived. The boys were forced to make shelter and find food for survival. One of the boy's glasses plays an important role in the succession and development of the Lord of the Flies.

During William Golding’s time, World War II was coming to an end after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Golding, horrified by “mankind’s essential illness” and capacity for evil, wrote the novel Lord of the Flies to depict how the struggle to survive can birth the beast in society, which, unfortunately, can cause the destruction of civilization. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses political allegory to illustrate how power dynamics change when people revert to a primal id state. To start off, Golding uses a conch to symbolize democracy.