Character Representations in Lord of the Flies

Golding made each character represent a social group in Lord of the Flies . Piggy represents the thinker and Jack is the bully. They are two main characters that play significant

roles in demonstrating Golding’s ideas about society as a whole.

When Golding told us, “what intelligence had been shown was traceable to Piggy, but the most obvious leader was Jack.”, we learned that Piggy had been characterized as the brain of the

group. We can also infer from this statement that Piggy held little or no political clout, and could not get others to follow his instructions. For example, when he tried to take names of the boys

after Ralph left, they merely wandered off without taking notice of

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