The Lord Of The Flies: Piggy Character Analysis

Throughout the novel Golding uses The Best as symbolism to show the inner desires of man. With the book being written during the time of World War II Golding depicts how he believes everyone could be like a Nazi, he does this in the book by showing we all have evil inside of us, and that evil got Simon killed. Golding wants the reader of his novel to understand that adults, and even children see the loss of innocence and the evil inner desires inside each human that is brought into the

Golding uses a group of boys to show that even in, children, the thing society sees as the most innocent can still become corrupted by an environment full of evil. Golding creates the character, Jack, the tough hunter but it takes Jack a little while to completely take on this role. In the quote, “‘I was going to,’ said Jack. He was ahead of them, and they could not see his face” (Golding 31), Readers can see Jack fail to kill a pig, Jack makes excuses as to why he did not kill it, however the reader can infer Jack did not have the heart to kill it because of his morals. Jack still has his initial innocence but later Golding shows how Jack will break his morals.

An article was soon violated when Chlomo Wiesel announced, “I have terrible news. Deportation.” After the announcement from Eliezer’s father, Hungarian polices started shouting, “All Jews outside! Hurry! The time’s come now…You’ve got to leave all this…” After forced from their homes, they were sent to experience brutality at Auschwitz/Birkenau, Buna, Gleiwitz, and Buchenwald. Once the Germans omitted the inferiors from their safe haven, the superiors destroyed articles nine: freedom from containment and

Hobbesian Theory in Lord of the Flies The question of whether man is inherently good or evil has been debated amongst religions, philosophers, and many great thinkers since the beginning of man itself. On one hand, there are those who believe we as humans are naturally moral beings, and it is society that makes us evil. However, others argue society is not only good, but needed to control our inhumane and animalistic tendencies. One of the most famous believers in this theory is English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes. In 1954 novel Lord of the Flies, his idea is expanded upon.

In William Golding’s, Lord of the Flies and Khalil Gibran, The prophet, their extremely different views of good and evil are apparent. Golding proclaims that evil is in everyone and that they are born with it from the beginning. On the other hand, Gibran suggests that everyone is inherently good and born pure, and evil is just being lost or uninspired. Golding seems to imply that when the group of boys abandon their civilized ways they start acting according to their “primal instincts” or evil ways. Because the boys have realized that there are no consequences to their actions they lose their sense of what is right and what is wrong therefore there remodelled society fails.

The natural way of humans has long been debated by several philosophers. One may agree with Hobbes’ perspective, all humans are naturally evil, creating chaos and disorder; or one may side with Locke’s perspective that all humans are naturally good, kind creatures. Still others do not side with either philosopher, believing that instead, humans actions result of their environment. This has fueled the debate about where human behavior derives from: the biology or the environment. The realistic fiction novel the Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, brings up this debate as it follows young British schoolboys who crashed onto an island.

Because of this, Hitler’s goal was to cleanse Germany of any backstabbing Jews (Growing Fascism in Germany Notes, pg 1). Hitler became impatient while waiting for the Jews to die in the ghettos so he held a conference in Wannsee on January 20, 1942 to decide the next step for purifying Germany. Hitler, along with 15 other scholars, decided to deport all Jews to extermination camps and kill the majority of them in gas chambers. Hitler prohibited the Jews from fleeing the country so he was able to purge the entire population. One of the largest death camps in Germany, Auschwitz, was a result of the Wannsee Conference.

The writer of the novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding symbolizes technology using Piggy’s glasses. Golding describes Piggy’s character in great detail using symbols, which reflect on to his personality as well as civilization. Piggy is a clever boy who shares his knowledge with the rest of the boys throughout the novel, however he is also a victim of asthma and myopia. Myopia is the quality of being shortsighted, which, can be fixed by wearing glasses. Piggy plays a major role throughout the novel and serves as symbols of logic, scientific knowledge as well as inferiority.

Multivac relies upon human input, but the data Henderson was receiving from the generals was drastically skewed. Each leader wanted to make themselves look good, and to fix this Henderson tampered with the data. He messed with the numbers until they looked right, and for this he feels ashamed. Until Swift admits he did not rely on the data from the great Multivac, and instead used an older machine to decide what to do. He flipped a coin to make the great decisions.

Lord of the Flies, the title in and of itself, is a metaphor. This book is founded on metaphors, ranging from objects representing unity, to people representing “good and evil”, depending on which perspective the book is taken from. The change in perception will ultimately change the way each metaphor is interpreted. However, one metaphor that is universally agreed on is that of Piggy, a physical representation of knowledge. Throughout the book, metaphors seem to be hidden everywhere, but when broken down one idea is shown above the rest; Piggy was and still is the key to survival in any scope the book is peered through.

While reading this I felt the suspension and intensity of the story building. It made me think deeper about Josef and his past. How could someone that seems so nice be something so evil at one point? Everyone has had dark time in there life, but can someone so evil completely and fully become a better person? I wonder what happened in Josef’s past to make him so brain washed to the point where he believed that being a Nazi soldier was something he should do.

Artie alludes to the difficulty he has writing the book he intended for his readers. Comparably, the holocaust is not only specific to a certain group, race, culture, or community but to every single man or women within that group affecting their ability to move forward and prosper as

The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.” Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel had experienced this when he was captured by the Nazi and taken to the camps. Concentration camps were probably the most inferior place in the world. Torture did not begin with the camps though. The fear that the Nazis would come for them would eat the Jews lives’ out. Then, when the Nazi captured the Jews, they had to go through the transportation which was another type torment.

Just as Khan said :" There is a way to be good again." He final choose made everhting chang, including his weakness.He gained a sense of reponsebility, it was real new Amir. This section of the story really touched me to see the young Amir finally grow up and mature. It was like a coming of age expierence for Amir to finally grow out of his old self and into a new man. Throughout this part of the novel i have to admit i felt really bad for his friend Hassan because he is a really great friend of Amir but it seems to me that Amir does not truely respect and honor his friends loyalty and love for him.

Staggering statistics and different types of media serving as evidence to the horrors committed during the Holocaust does not fully explain why the Holocaust occurred in the first place. A history of hatred and a strong military in support for a charismatic leader employed a history of hatred into the horrific event known today as the Holocaust. By digging deep and recognizing the predominant hatred and prejudice, the full extent of the Holocaust can be fully realized into how it happened at