Piggy Flashcards
{CH1} “[Ralph] returned as a fighter-plane, with wings swept back, and machine-gunned Piggy” (3p)
- Lexical field of war
- Violent imagery
- Piggy is described as inferior/ the victim
{CH1} “For the moment the boys were a closed circuit sympathy with Piggy outside” (5p)
- the boys unite to mock Piggy
- metaphor
- Piggy is ostracised
- foreshadows Piggy’s treatment throughout the book
Context: Like in WW2 when the Jews were singled out and separated from society
{CH5} “… only Piggy was no chief. But Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains” (2p)
- Jack recognises Piggy’s intelligence
CONTEXT: How the lower class were overlooked and lacked opportunities dues to elitism and nepotism
“Piggy’s glasses flashed” (4p)
- They flash when he gets a new idea
Glasses= symbol of his intellect and his ability to see and understand things that others can’t (metaphorically)
Glasses= there only way of obtaining fire - FIRE= symbol of hope ang going home
{CH2} “Cradling the great cream shell” (3p)
-Piggy cares about democracy and will look after it
CONCH= Symbol of democracy and civilisation
CONTEXT: the working class needed democracy to make sure they weren’t disadvantaged and had the chance to thrive
{CH1} “Piggy hung bumbling behind them” (3p)
- refers to when Ralph, Simon and Piggy go to explore
- Piggy is on the outside
- Ostracised by others
{CH2} “Acting like a crowd of kids” (6p)
-(when the boys go to build a fire)
- Piggy is more mature than the rest of them and the voice of a parent
-He asks them to calm down, think rationally
-He correctly assumes that in their excitement, they contributed to the death of at least one stray littlun
CONTEXT: Human nature is destroy
- IN WW2, Golding as naval officer discovered how everyone is capable of doing evil
- that evil (the ID) is in us all
Piggy parallel to Tiresias (Greek mythology) (2p)
Tiresias= blind prophet with an exceptional ability to perceive and understand the truth that others miss
- Like Piggy
