Piggy's Personality In Lord Of The Flies, By William Golding

Throughout the story Lord of the Flies by William Golding he does a wonderful job of thoroughly explaining each character to fully understand their personality. In this piece from the story we get a look at Piggy’s personality. Based on Piggy’s hopeless actions, non confident responses to the boys, and the careless way they talk to him we get a shy and timid character. Based on Piggy’s hopeless actions we got that he was a very shy kid. At one point in the passage Golding stated that “he glanced nervously into hell and cradled the conch.” When the author said this he was explaining how he gets very nervous, as William used, when he gets others attention because he fears how they will react to his ideas. Another one that goes with this is …show more content…
Piggy replies to Jack with “I got the conch, I got a right to speak.” When Piggy said this it gave the readers an impression that others do not take Piggy seriously. When he stated this he was trying very hard to use a demanding voice and it did not work for him. This continues throughout the story because in this other example “I got the conch. I got the conch, ain’t I Ralph.” He finds himself having to rely on other that he knows will pay attention to him to help get the other to listen. But often Ralph does not want to be looked at as weak like Piggy so he does not pay much attention to him. By the end of the passage we see that he is losing more and more confidence because he is getting sick of others not listening. The readers see this when he says “The conch. I got a right to speak.” He was forced to say this because no one was paying attention to him so at this point he had not confidence left to try and get the attention of others. By Piggy’s responses to the boys we learned more about him but the way others respond to him can show a lot about a …show more content…
It all started in the beginning of the passage when Jack tells piggy “Oh, shut up!” From this the readers learn that Jack does not have much respect towards Piggy. It only gets worse when Jack takes it to next level and starts to call Piggy names. Jack told Piggy “You’re always scared. Yah-Fatty!” Jack is acting very careless with his words towards Piggy. He is not thinking about what he is saying. At this point in the story the readers see that he is a very easy target for the boys to start picking on. Towards the end Piggy tries taking charge again and it only ends badly when the “twins giggle” at what he has to say because they are not very