What Does Piggy's Glasses Symbolize

An important symbol in Lord Of The Flies by William Golding is Piggy’s glasses. Golding uses this symbol to help build up a theme throughout the story. A major theme is that people act in an unprincipled manner when there is no authoritarian figure watching over them. In most cases, people will be disorderly or even become rebellious without some sort of hierarchy and social rule to follow. A perfect example of this is what often happens when a teacher leaves a classroom, some students will start talking, getting up and moving around, or even throwing items to each other, all actions they would normally refrain from when the teacher, an authoritarian figure, is present. At elections or protests, if there are no authorities nearby, people might
He takes the fire at night because everyone is asleep and no one will see him do it. If Jack had not left and made his own tribe in the first place, he would not need to ask for fire, none the less steal it. By animating the characters to do this, Golding is showing how the boys have become less civilized. If Jack were more civilized, he would have worked with the others to help solve their problems rather than splinter off and make his own tribe. Even though he made his own tribe, he could have at least asked for some fire from Ralph instead of stealing it. Ralph would have given fire to Jack if he had asked. Ralph even says “we’d given you fire if you’d asked for it”(176). By having Ralph say that he would give fire if asked, the action shows the reader how he is civilized and still holding on to the principles of society as if someone were there watching
They committed the first murder by using the glasses Jack stole from Piggy to make a huge bonfire on top of the mountain. Sparks flew from the fire and caught part of the forest on fire while children were still in the forest. One of them having a mulberry birthmark. Golding implies that the boy with the mulberry birthmark was murdered because piggy said “That little ‘un [...] him with the mark on his face, I don’t see him. Where is he now?”(46). Piggy indicates that the boy with the mulberry birthmark because no one has seen him since the bonfire.They committed the second murder during a frenzied party. They were frenzied because it was late at night and there was a fire and everyone was screaming. Simon comes down from the mountain in the dark to tell everyone that the beast was a dead parachuter. Instead of listening to him, the boys circled Simon thinking he was the beast and they “screamed, struck, bit, tore”(153). The characters also did not hear Simon explaining the beast to them because they were all screaming and out of control. When Golding had the characters murder Simon, it showed to the reader how crazed the boys were that they didn't even recognize Simon as they tore him to pieces. Later, Piggy and Ralph went to castle rock to ask Jack to give Piggy his glasses back and Piggy ended up getting murdered just