Lord of the Flies, by William Golding is an allegorical novel with characters that represent important themes or ideas. In the novel, Piggy is intellectual with asthma, a weight problem, and poor eye vision. Piggy represents a scientific mind, intelligence, and responsibility in the novel. In the novel, Piggy is described as the brainy characteristic of society. Piggy’s glasses symbolize the scientific aspects of society because Jack and Ralph use his glasses to start the fire, “his specs use them as burning glasses!” (40) Piggy establishes that life is scientific during one of the assemblies in the novel and understands that there is no beast with claws on the island and that everyone actually fears what is on the island; themselves, each other and the evilness within a person’s heart:
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You don’t really mean that we got to be frightened all the time of nothing? Life… is scientific, that’s what it is. In a year or two when the war’s over they’ll be travelling to Mars and back. I know there isn’t no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn’t no fear, either.” (84)
Near the end of the novel, Piggy explains the death of Simon to Ralph, and he tries to keep life scientific:
“It was an accident… that’s what it was. An accident… Coming in the dark – he had no business crawling like that out of the dark. He was batty. He asked for it… It was an accident.” (157)
Piggy is the most physically vulnerable among the boys regardless of his intelligence. Piggy’s judgement benefits the boys on the island only through Ralph since he acts like Ralph’s advisor. At the beginning of the novel, Piggy finds the conch and tells Ralph to blow into it to call an
You don’t really mean that we got to be frightened all the time of nothing? Life… is scientific, that’s what it is. In a year or two when the war’s over they’ll be travelling to Mars and back. I know there isn’t no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn’t no fear, either.” (84)
Near the end of the novel, Piggy explains the death of Simon to Ralph, and he tries to keep life scientific:
“It was an accident… that’s what it was. An accident… Coming in the dark – he had no business crawling like that out of the dark. He was batty. He asked for it… It was an accident.” (157)
Piggy is the most physically vulnerable among the boys regardless of his intelligence. Piggy’s judgement benefits the boys on the island only through Ralph since he acts like Ralph’s advisor. At the beginning of the novel, Piggy finds the conch and tells Ralph to blow into it to call an