Critical Essay Character Piggy Quotes

Question 1

First paragraph quotation

Answer 1

“ “He whispered. ‘They used to call me Piggy.’ Ralph shrieked with laughter. He jumped up. ‘Piggy! Piggy!’” Word choice of shrieked, also connotations of piggy.

Question 2

Second paragraph

Answer 2

“S’right. It’s a shell. I seen one like that before.” Talk about short sentence emphasising the phrase, also symbolism of conch (order and civilisation)

Question 3

Third paragraph

Answer 3

“His specs–use them as burning glasses!” Symbolism of his glasses are intelligent furthermore increasing the irony that they are harassing the most intelligent person on the island.

Question 4

Fourth paragraph

Answer 4

“What about the littluns?” “Piggy’ll look after them”. Short sentence Piggy’ll look after them mirrors the content, short - took no time to decide. He is emasculated having to do a stereotypical woman’s job.

Question 5

Fifth paragraph

Answer 5

“Below him, Ralph was a shock of hair and Piggy a bag of fat.” Metaphor, also death of Piggy is sad as he was most desperate to leave the island.

Question 6

Conclusion and theme showed through the character

Answer 6

we are made to feel pity towards Piggy as he is relentlessly bullied despite his intelligence and rationale regarding escaping the island. Piggy is desperate to maintain order within the group, shown through the symbolic use of the conch demonstrating his civility, making it all the more cruel when he is ignored and attacked by the group. His eventual death is cruel, since he is so desperate to leave the island and our pity for him climaxes at this point. By making us sympathise so greatly with Piggy, the author gives us, the reader, a significant insight into how we must respect and listen to intelligent figures, even in the most dire circumstances.