Golding protray piggy
How does Golding present Piggy and Simon in the novel?
Throughout the thought provoking and allegorical novel of ‘Lord of the Flies’ by William Golding there are certain elements of Golding’s ideology that are represented through objects, the weather and most importantly the characters in the novel. During the time in which the novel was written, the war had just been won by the United Kingdom. Golding was disgusted by a lot of the things that went on during the war particularly the horrendous misanthropic Nazi regime and the apathy that the Nazi’s maintained around killing innocent human beings. As a consequence of this, Golding uses some of these horrific happenings to portray a message or even an extremely strong moral point through the setting and characters in particular. Golding specifically uses the interesting and diverse characters of Piggy and Simon to portray moral and ethical issues that concerned him at the time of when he wrote his novel. Not only this, but certain elements of Piggy and Simon’s personality and even exterior aesthetics are used to convey a message possibly about the government, democracy and society in general. When reading the novel, Jack and Ralph are first perceived as the main characters. It first seems, that Golding is really trying to make a point about these two boys’ behaviour he puts across the idea that these characters both dichotomous in terms of their interaction skills and general social demeanour are not morally upstanding. Although as the reader continues to read on we see that there is an undertone of importance through both Piggy and Simon’s characters, we see that these two characters are equally significant to Jack and Ralph in terms of their role on the island, if not more so .Golding uses the characters of Simon and Piggy in very divergent ways throughout the novel. While both characters play fundamental and vital roles throughout, these roles are dissimilar in terms of how they may try and deal
Throughout the thought provoking and allegorical novel of ‘Lord of the Flies’ by William Golding there are certain elements of Golding’s ideology that are represented through objects, the weather and most importantly the characters in the novel. During the time in which the novel was written, the war had just been won by the United Kingdom. Golding was disgusted by a lot of the things that went on during the war particularly the horrendous misanthropic Nazi regime and the apathy that the Nazi’s maintained around killing innocent human beings. As a consequence of this, Golding uses some of these horrific happenings to portray a message or even an extremely strong moral point through the setting and characters in particular. Golding specifically uses the interesting and diverse characters of Piggy and Simon to portray moral and ethical issues that concerned him at the time of when he wrote his novel. Not only this, but certain elements of Piggy and Simon’s personality and even exterior aesthetics are used to convey a message possibly about the government, democracy and society in general. When reading the novel, Jack and Ralph are first perceived as the main characters. It first seems, that Golding is really trying to make a point about these two boys’ behaviour he puts across the idea that these characters both dichotomous in terms of their interaction skills and general social demeanour are not morally upstanding. Although as the reader continues to read on we see that there is an undertone of importance through both Piggy and Simon’s characters, we see that these two characters are equally significant to Jack and Ralph in terms of their role on the island, if not more so .Golding uses the characters of Simon and Piggy in very divergent ways throughout the novel. While both characters play fundamental and vital roles throughout, these roles are dissimilar in terms of how they may try and deal