Conch
The conch symbolizes democracy, because the
person who holds the conch got to speak and call the meetings. Ralph finds a conch on the ferny wood and
Piggy in retrospect tells him that someone ” ‘used to blow it and then his mum would
come.’ ”. (Golding 11) Piggy has an idea of using the conch to call other boys
and have a meeting. When the boys hear the conch, they come along the beach and
meet together. The conch makes Ralph so powerful among these boys, so they vote
for him to be the leader.
Spectacles
The spectacles symbolized knowledge,
intelligence, and progress. Piggy is the one who wears the spectacles and that
means he is intelligent and has knowledge. Piggy is the one who knows what the conch is
and how it can be used. He also takes care of it, so when he dies the conch
breaks. This is a metaphor that there is no democracy if the society loses
knowledge, intelligence, and progress. The
boys use the spectacles to light the fire in the book. In Chapter 4,after Jack lets the fire go out,
Piggy’s glasses are broken. This means that dictatorships can damage and break
the knowledge and make citizens get hurt.
Fire
The fire represents how close the boys are
to civilization. When the fire went out
because Jack call the boys to hunt, is when the boys are most savage because
they’re no longer worried about being rescued. Ralph wants a
signal fire in order to be seem by other people and get rescued. However, Jack
only wants a fire to cook or to honor the beast. In Chapter 10, Jack steals
Piggy’s spectacles to light the fire, because he can use the fire to fight for
who can be the leader.
Beast
The beast is the fear in the boys of
becoming savages, as the story goes on the boys becoming more fearful of the
beast. This means that, as they are more scared of the beast the farther they
move from being civilized and more towards savages. The boys think the beast comes for a cave on
the top of the mountain because they saw the dead parachutist and thought him
to be the beast. Before that they didn’t know where the beast exactly came
from. In the end of the story Jack uses the Lord of the
Flies, which is the pig’s head on the stick, to give the beast.
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