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Piggy’s glasses are symbolic for a number of reasons in Lord of the Flies. The spectacles represent the boys’ only means of obtaining fire through reflecting the...
Jack is the arrogant leader of the choir in Lord of the Flies, and after the crash, demands that he be made chief. He is disappointed...
The Lord of the Flies appears in Chapter Eight. Jack and his hunters kill a sow and decide to leave an offering for the beast. They cut off the...
Piggy and Ralph find the conch shell just after the crash on the island and Ralph blows into it to alert other survivors. It quickly...
Simon is the most mysterious character in Lord of the Flies. He is first introduced as a member of Jack’s choir, and he faints when they...
In many ways, war is the central theme of Lord of the Flies; the experience of the boys on the island is an allegory for the...
William Golding was a schoolteacher at Bishop Wordsworth’s School in Salisbury, Wiltshire at the outbreak of the Second World War. He joined the British Navy...
Sam and Eric, who quickly become known as ‘Samneric’, are identical twins, and completely inseparable. They provide some comic relief from their first introduction, as Piggy is unable...
The Castle Rock is a fictional place in Lord of the Flies. The boys discover it halfway through the book while looking for the beast and...
The Naval Officer appears at the end of Lord of the Flies and represents the chance of rescue to the stranded boys. He surveys the war-painted and...
Roger is a member of Jack’s choir and is described as ‘a slight furtive boy whom no one knew, who kept to himself with an...
Maurice – ‘broad and grinning all the time’ at the beginning of Lord of the Flies – is a member of Jack’s choir and then his group of...