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funnna: 1 year ago

In the book Lord of the Flies, what are the circumstances of piggys death?

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crowtrobot: 1 year ago

First of you have to know that Lord of the Flies is an allegory and all the boys and some objects symbolize different aspects of our society. Piggy represents the intellect in society and Piggy's glasses symbolize civility and intelligence. When civility is gone; intellectual people are considered a nuisance. Therefore as we watch the glasses being destroyed we can infer that the intellect will also be destroyed. A symbolic moment is when Jack breaks one of Piggy's lenses. Piggy is also never liked form the beginning. Ralph tolerates him because of his brains but Jack is always making fun of him because he is so weak (emotionally and physically). We can also look at the conch which represents order and authority, two things that Piggy worships. Throughout the book the conch loses colour and significant and is only appropriate that it is destroyed along with Piggy

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BillyQuisenberry: 1 year ago via iPhone

That was a very good analogy of the question

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FrankSigona: 1 year ago via iPhone

Was mugged by flies

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crowtrobot: 1 year ago

lol

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