Lord Of The Flies
..."The end of innocence and the darkness of man's heart". The main theme of the book is Golding's beliefs that without rules and society man has the power and the will power to become evil and immoral. Golding's way of showing this was putting a group of young school children on an idyllic island with no adults or society. At first they try and model their existence on that they know of and try and place in rules and democracy so they feel like they are at home, and more at ease. Eventually though everything falls apart and their island descends into anarchy, and they begin to gain the state of mind which enables them to kill anything that goes against them.
Piggy is one of the main characters of the book and we are introduced to him quite early on in the story, the first time we see him is in the first chapter of the book when he emerges out of the forest. The first descriptions of Piggy give us quite a good idea of what sort of person he is. He appears to be an outsider and have very little social standing with the other boys. He is described as being over-weight, having glasses, very clever, lower class, also he is asthmatic, all of these things add up to the other boys not taking any notice of him and him being left out of discussions or any main tasks. The first person who Piggy encounters is Ralph and immediately he looks up to Ralph as a leader, and so Ralph looks down onto Piggy as he talks with a lower class accent and Ralph thinks that he is better than Piggy. Ralph is the person who finds the conch but Piggy is the one who has to explain to Ralph what it is, however Ralph is the one with the authority to blow it and group together all of the boys and call him self the leader although he comes under strong competition form a boy called Jack Merridew who is the leader of the choir. Piggy latches onto Ralph and gives him ideas on what to say as the...
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