Symbolism in the lord of the flies
These are a representation of Piggy and since he wears them, he takes on the values they symbolise like insight, common sense which is lacking towards the end when the glass cracks, guidance, reason, intelligence, the consequence of action (unlike Simon he knew that every action had a consequence. Had Simon know this, he would not have gone to the boys with the knowledge of what the beast was when they were in such hysteria.) The glasses are needed to light the fire and this is ironic as Piggy was myopic (short-sighted) and such glasses do not light a fire. Golding did this knowingly to show that although Piggy was intelligent and could see the repercussions of their actions in the future, he did not see the things that were right in front of him. Such examples are that he did not realise that Ralph did not like him at the start of the novel and that although he did not realise that he was going to die at the end even though he had had a lot of premonitions. Thanks to Piggy's ideas the boys did not regress from the start. When one of his lenses was broken his qualities were reduced in quality and he stopped trying to help the boys even though he still had insight. Piggy found it and knew how to use it an
The beast existed in everyone as everyone had sinned and contribute to evil that the beast represents. It unifies them and the island wants this, however the boys divided themselves. Once it was removed from the island, all it ideals left with it and chaos reigned then. He came face to face with the lord of the flies and there is a religious allegory as the lord tried to tempt him to join the hunters but he resisted. Ralph tried to protect himself from the savages with the spear from under the lord's scull which was ironic as he was using the initiator of all evil to defend himself from the evil in the boys. Further on they were sad to have gone to the "darkest tangle of the forest". Lord of the Flies/pig's headThe lord is symbolising Beelzebub, the devil of unreason and evil. It is a streak of evil and to overcome it Simon had to die. Piggy was the only one to have blind faith in the conch and its ideals to the end and when he died it was removed with him. When they were hunting Roger carried a similar spear meaning that he wanted to treat Ralph the same way he had treated the sow. The spear sharpened at both ends rooted the lord to the island so that its evil spread and tainted all the boys. Everyone had a fear and anted to attack and get rid of it. Also Jack's group was negative and they were introduced as "something dark from the forest". While he tried to tell them the truth he had found, they killed him for it and for his insight in their hysteria of unreason. Knife/Spear sharpened at both endsThe knife is tied with violence and it was possessed by Jack from the very beginning.
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simon beast killed,
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