Piggy- initial presentation Flashcards
Use of a different dialect (2p)
- Indication of lower class and poverty
- He isn’t rich in comparison to the other boys
Glasses (2p)
- symbol of vulnerability
- Piggy sees things that others don’t (physically and metaphorically)
Glasses flashing/ glasses being wiped
- when Piggy gets a new idea or comes to a new realisation
Piggy essay introduction (4p)
- The character of Piggy is used to explore the treatment of the working class in the 1950s
- The Island is used as a microcosm for 1950s society
- Growing up from a working class background, Golding experienced this first hand
- Golding belief in ‘the perfectibility of man’ changed after WW2 when he as a naval officer witnessed the destruction of marginalised groups in society and humans capability for evil
Initial presentation of Piggy (3p)
- vulnerable
- lower class
- outcast because he has a different social background (he went to a public school)
IP: “The fat boy” (2p)
- the reader is encouraged to be prejudiced towards him from the beginning
- by focusing on his appearance first
IP: “He was shorter than the fair boy but very fat” (2p)
- He is established as physically beneath Ralph
- He is inferior (lower status)
IP: “Greasy windbreaker” (2p)
- Dirty
- Prejudices reader
IP: “Thick spectacles” and “Asthma”
- physically vulnerable
Piggy context (3p)
- WW2
- British society
- Social background
WW2 (Piggy context)
- The dehumanisation and extermination of the the marginalised
British society (Piggy context) (2p)
- working class were looked down on by the elite class
- elitism and nepotism
elitism
the belief that a society or system should be led by someone from an elite social background
Nepotism
the practise of those with power and influence favouring family and friends (eg. by giving them jobs)
Social background (Piggy context) (3p)
- from the working class
- different dialect to the other boys
- went to public school
” Sucks to your ass-mar” (2p)
- Ralph mocks Piggy’s physical illness and accent
- Dialect is a symbol that Piggy is not like the other boys
Piggy’s name (3p)
- Piggy= nameless/ dehumanised
Pig=
-Intelligent but undervalued
- known to be as smart as dogs but worth isn’t recognised
Pig (on the island)=
- slaughtered/ killed
-foreshadows Piggy’s death
