... . He stumbles across the sow's head, the "Lord of the Flies," now merely a gleaming white skull-as white as the conch shell, he notes. Angry and disgusted, Ralph knocks the skull to the ground and takes the stake it was impaled on to use as a weapon against Jack. That ... hands of the other boys indicates the scarcity of that good amid an overwhelming abundance of evil. Piggy Ralph's "lieutenant." A whiny, intellectual boy, Piggy's inventiveness frequently leads to innovation, such as the makeshift sundial that the boys use to tell time. Piggy represents the scientific, rational side of...

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... on true spirituality in favor of barbaric blood lust. Piggy represents reason and order. Early in the book he is described as "the fat boy with asthma."" These characteristics make Piggy seem like an unpopular and unattractive person. Golding uses Piggy to symbolize society's resistance to reason and order ... of this is later contradicted by what Marlow sees upon his meeting with Kurtz. Rather than a noble mind, Marlow is confronted with a human head "black, dried, sunken, with closed eyelids-. The destruction of the illusions that various people had for Kurtz symbolize the absence of t...

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• Grade Level: High School