Jessica King
English IV
Ms. Brown
7 December 2016
Within the novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding, the author, creates numerous symbols that are strongly psychoactive but also strategic to the novel. This particular novel is examined worldwide because of its unique world view and tale it represents. The conch shell, fire, and Piggy’s glasses are highly significant to the novel The Lord of the Flies because the symbols all unite and divide the kids.
The conch shell preserves a puissance over the schoolboys that brings them together.
“All right. Who wants Jack for chief?...Who wants me (Ralph)? Every hand outside the choir except Piggy’s was raised immediately. Then Piggy, too, raised his hand grudgingly into the air. Ralph counted. ‘I’m chief then. (Golding 23)”
When the conch was first sound by Ralph, everyone came together to put forth rules of thumb. The first …show more content…
The abandoned society of the norm develops through the disorder of the island and it seems as if piggy’s glasses allows us to have a clue how far they have sunk. “ 'My specs! ' He went crouching and feeling over the rocks but Simon, who got there first, found them for him. Passions beat about Simon on the mountaintop with awful wings. 'One side 's broken. ' (Golding 71)” At the time the glasses broke, Jack and Piggy were arguing during an assembly. That time only one side had been broken. This brought the boys apart by fighting and breaking Piggy’s glasses. “The chief[Jack] led them[Jack’s hunters], trotting steadily, exulting in his achievement. He was a chief now in truth; and he made stabbing motions with his spear. From his left hand dangled Piggy’s broken glasses. (Golding 302)” This particular part is toward the end of the book. Jack and his hunters came to steal Piggy’s glasses. After the fact they had murdered Simon. This had brought the boys apart by anarchy. Jack had stolen the
English IV
Ms. Brown
7 December 2016
Within the novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding, the author, creates numerous symbols that are strongly psychoactive but also strategic to the novel. This particular novel is examined worldwide because of its unique world view and tale it represents. The conch shell, fire, and Piggy’s glasses are highly significant to the novel The Lord of the Flies because the symbols all unite and divide the kids.
The conch shell preserves a puissance over the schoolboys that brings them together.
“All right. Who wants Jack for chief?...Who wants me (Ralph)? Every hand outside the choir except Piggy’s was raised immediately. Then Piggy, too, raised his hand grudgingly into the air. Ralph counted. ‘I’m chief then. (Golding 23)”
When the conch was first sound by Ralph, everyone came together to put forth rules of thumb. The first …show more content…
The abandoned society of the norm develops through the disorder of the island and it seems as if piggy’s glasses allows us to have a clue how far they have sunk. “ 'My specs! ' He went crouching and feeling over the rocks but Simon, who got there first, found them for him. Passions beat about Simon on the mountaintop with awful wings. 'One side 's broken. ' (Golding 71)” At the time the glasses broke, Jack and Piggy were arguing during an assembly. That time only one side had been broken. This brought the boys apart by fighting and breaking Piggy’s glasses. “The chief[Jack] led them[Jack’s hunters], trotting steadily, exulting in his achievement. He was a chief now in truth; and he made stabbing motions with his spear. From his left hand dangled Piggy’s broken glasses. (Golding 302)” This particular part is toward the end of the book. Jack and his hunters came to steal Piggy’s glasses. After the fact they had murdered Simon. This had brought the boys apart by anarchy. Jack had stolen the