Piggy Flashcards
“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?”
The boys were beginning to forget the ways of their old society and were becoming undisciplined and self-indulgent.
“Which is better- to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?”
Piggy made an argument for the rule of law and democracy, but in the end the boys’ society rejected this, instead choosing bloodlust and savagery.
“We ought to have a meeting.”
Acts like an adult intellectually, represents order of the civilised world.
”..Piggy a bag of fat.”
This reduces Piggy to nothing and makes Piggy the same as the sow- foreshadows Piggy’s death?
“Which is better- to be sensible like Ralph is or to be a pack of painted niggers?”
This shows Golding’s theory that everyone has an inevitable darkness inside.
It shows Piggy in a completely different way from what he’s perceived as.
