... Lord of the Flies is not, to say the least, a simple adventure of boys on a desert island, in fact the theme of the Novel is an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human society back to human nature, and indeed the emergence of this concealed, basic wildness is the theme of the book. Piggy's Specs mark the somewhat horrific symbol of progressive decay of ... anarchy and evil. In the beginning the glasses marked Piggy as queer and forlorn to the others, an irreparably irrelevant piece of matter flaked off the loaf that is society. These glasses marked his intell...

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