Struggle For Power | Think Before You Act | Piggy's Glasses

Struggle For Power:

• Jack asks the people to join his tribe and have fun "Who thinks Ralph oughtn't to be chief. (...) there was a deadly silence" (p.201)
• Piggy had the conch whe he would speak 'I got the conch,' says Piggy indignitly 'You let me speak!' 'The conch doesn't count on top of the mountain,' said Jack, 'so you shut up.' (p.42)
• Ralph was constantly in a battle with Jack to gain control of the tribe. 

Think Before You Act:

• Simon's death
• First thing they did when they got on the island was make fire.

Piggy's Glasses:

       Piggy is the most intelligent, rational boy in the group, and his glasses represent the power of science and intellectual endeavor in society. This symbolic significance is clear from the start of the novel, when the boys use the lenses from Piggy’s glasses to focus the sunlight and start a fire. When Jack’s hunters raid Ralph’s camp and steal the glasses, the savages effectively take thePiggy's glasses are significant to the boys as they are the means with which the boys are able to get a fire started. Symbolically, the glasses are significant because they represent the intellectual and ordered side of humanity. The breaking of the glasses represents the breaking of the last tie to humanity that the boys have. After this event, it is a downward spiral into primal and animalistic behavior, culminating in Piggy's death. power to make fire, leaving Ralph’s group helpless.