Evil in a Pig’s Eye William Golding once said, “To trace back the to defects in society, we must trace back to the defects in human nature.” The microcosm he creates in The Lord of the Flies explores the savagery that lies in all human beings. The novel narrates the lives of a group of British boys who crash land onto an unpopulated island and fail in their attempt to maintain civilization before help arrives. One of the boys, Piggy, is considered an outcast, although he is a voice of logic and can see the what other boys choose to ignore. The state of Piggy and his glasses are paralleled by the progression of the loss of logic and innovation on the island, also, they separate the boys/humanity from the animal world. Piggy’s glasses and Piggy
