Piggy As The Outcast Analysis

Golding characterizes Piggy as the outcast to give reason a voice so that readers can consider what could have happened had the boys listened to Piggy. This exemplifies the impact logic and reason could have in society. At the assembly discussing whether the beast was real, Piggy said, “I know there isn’t no beast…but I know there isn’t no fear, either...Unless we get frightened of people” (84). The boys laugh and completely ignore Piggy’s comment. Jack fosters the boys’ fear caused by the beast as they try to hunt it down. The fear and hunting helps turn the boys into the sadistic savages they are at the end of the book. This begs the question of what would have happened had the boys listened to Piggy’s comment. Their fears might not have