Piggy's Death In Lord Of The Flies

“The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee… Piggy fell forty feet and landed opened and stuff came out and turned red. Piggy’s arms and legs twitched a bit, like a pig’s after it has been killed” (Golding 181). As anyone could tell, Piggy’s death was anything but peaceful. His death, caused by Roger, was a violent and bloody one, as depicted by William Golding in his novel, Lord of the Flies. A class of boys become stranded on an island with no adults, however Golding describes the island as a paradise with all the necessities. Eventually, they stay on the island for so long, with no community structure, that some start becoming savages. These few delight in being superior to the others, and some go crazy with the power of killing
Thus intentionally becoming a murderer, by the mere definition of murder, “‘the killing of a human being by another human being with malice aforethought.’ ‘Malice’ is found if the individual possesses any one of the four states of mind; the intention to kill a human being, the intention to inflict grievous bodily injury on another, an extremely reckless disregard for the value of human life, or the intention to commit a felony during the commission or attempted commission of which a death results” (Mauro 1). This is the law definition of murder, and it explains what classifies a murderer, a murderer. It then goes into more depth by explaining parts of the definition for a murderer, going further into what malice actually means and how someone can be identified if they used malice in anything. Roger had the intention of killing Piggy by “throwing stones: Roger was dropping them, his one hand still on the lever… High overhead, Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever… The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee” (Golding 180-181). Roger had purposely leaned on the lever that he knew would cause the rock to roll down the hill. He had escalated from just throwing somewhat small stones at them, towards causing a huge rock to roll down the hill, heading straight for Piggy. Considering he was in a place called Castle Rock, it should be expected that there would be tons of rocks to
In addition, he completely had malice aforethought in the death of Piggy. Furthermore, Roger will has hurt people before, therefore he shall continue the pattern and carry on hurting people. All in all, Roger should be held completely accountable for the murder of Piggy. Murder is not an action done unconsciously or mistakenly, there is a part of the human nature that drives people to become