Lord of the Flies-Piggy

"Piggy was so full of pride in his contribution to the good of society, that he helped fetch wood." On the island Piggy is the main target for insults and abuse. Piggy then motivated to be accepted by the other boys decides to take actions that appease them. He believes the boys will be inclined to accept him if he helps them. However because Piggy appears smarter than the other boys it keeps him as the main target of attacks both physically and verbally. "I don't ask for my glasses back, not as a favour... but what's right's right." Piggy believes in morality and justice instinctively. He does not see these as optional and believes Jack lives within the same rules. His faith in morality gives him courage to stand against the power of Jack. He attempts to persuade Jack to give him back his glasses by using the ideals of a secure society in which everyone would follow the rules. "What are we? Humans or animals or savages? What's grown-ups going to think?" Piggy is angry at the boys lack of responsibility and superstitious beliefs in ghosts. He is ashamed of how they would be considered by civilised adults. This shows Piggy to be the main symbol of rationalised thinking. While the others fear the unknown, Piggy worries more about how irrationalised thinking would make them appear stupid or dim-witted to adults. "Which is better- to have laws and agree? or to hunt and kill?" In the savage world, only the fittest survive. Without rules and order, people like Piggy will not survive. With the conch, everyone gets a fair chance. Even though he may be fat and not very athletic his voice can still matter. This is why Piggy clings onto order and defends it. He tries to push the boys to see sense and turn back and follow Ralph's world of democracy where everyone is equal. "We can use this to call the others. Have a meeting. They'll come when they hear us." When Piggy and Ralph first meet we see that Piggy is more of an adult rather than a schoolboy. He tries to get everyone together and organised. He instinctively acts to organise the boys, learning names and trying to understand where they have come from. His idea to use the conch shows he understands the importance of discussion in order to survive. "How can you expect to be rescued if you don't put things first and act proper?" Above all things Piggy's main focus is to get rescued. He is not interested in hunting like the other boys and does not understand why they are prioritising a bit of excitement rather than getting off the island. He acts again like an adult by telling the other boys off. His attempt to be strict and control the boys is laughed at as because he tries so hard to keep order he is ignored. The boys grow tired of him and believe all he wants to do is live an ordered and mundane life on the island. "Piggy wiped his glasses and adjusted them on his button nose. The frame had made a deep. pink V on the bridge." We can see that Piggy's glasses are an essential part of him and his identity and also what it represents within the novel. Piggy is the most intelligent boy on the island and his glasses represents the power of science and intellectual endeavour in society. It is clear this is true as the boys use Piggy's glasses to focus sunlight to start a fire. His glasses are the closest thing to modern technology on the island, because of this Ralph and Piggy fight to protect them. " From his left hand dangled Piggy's broken glasses." When Jack's hunters raid Ralph's camp and steal the glasses, the savages effectively take the power to make fire, leaving Ralph's group helpless. The vicious and tribal action of Jack contrast the rational and civilised behaviour of Piggy, he does not fight back because he understands if he does there will be little chance of him surviving. This further adds to the resentment Ralph feels for Jack by stealing his