Who Is Piggy's Identity In Lord Of The Flies

“Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath, and for a minute became less of a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees (Golding, 49). In the Novel, Lord of the flies by William Golding, some young school boys crash on an island with no surviving adults, they make rules that they can follow until they are rescued and build a fire, so people can see it and come get them, but they soon lose hope. The boys become savage and forget all about their previous life and two of the boys end up getting killed. In the end while hunting Ralph, they start the island of fire and a naval officer sees it and rescues them. In the novel, Lord of the flies, the character’s loss of identity is a predominant theme and brings

Piggy’s specs are the only way the boys can start a fire and they were taken away from him. It is said that Piggy is blind without his specs because in the novel it says, “Piggy handed Ralph his glasses and waited to receive back his sight” (Golding, 162). Without his glasses Piggy is different, he is helpless and cannot do anything. In the novel, it says, “… Piggy sat expressionless behind the luminous wall of his myopia” (Golding,170). Before his blindness, Piggy was one of the only ones who could truly see the situation they were in, he was the voice of reason and now he is just blind and helpless, his identity is gone. Another way that Piggy’s identity is taken in the novel, is when the boys called him Piggy. He had a real name, but Ralph told all the boys that his nickname is Piggy and soon that became his identity, he was just another pig to the rest of the boys. When piggy is hit by the rock that Roger dropped on him, he fell and it says, “Piggy’s arms and legs twitched a bit, like a pig’s after it’s been killed (Golding, 181). Once Piggy lost his glasses, he was lost and almost all reason is

Ralph is the leader in the beginning but soon Jack takes over and all the other boys left him also. Ralph soon forgets the point of keeping the fire going, “Ralph tried indignantly to remember. There was something good about a fire. Something overwhelmingly good (Golding, 163). Here Ralph is starting to forget about the one thing they need to survive and be rescued. There is a moment in the novel where Ralph has the urge to hurt something or someone, it says, “Ralph to was fighting to get near, to get a handful of that brown, vulnerable flesh. The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering” (Golding, 114-115). Ralph needed to show the rest of the boys that he can be like them to, the beast inside him was taking over his emotions and he could not control it. Since Ralph loses his ability to lead the boys lose their respect for him, he becomes the cast-out instead of the leader, he is hunted down. However, because they start the island on fire to find him, they are