Symbolism
“the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist […] Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back across the square red rock in the sea. His head opened and stuff came out and turned red. Piggy’s arm and legs twitched a bit, like a pig’s after it had been killed” (Golding 181). This reveals how everything went downhill after the “conch shell exploded into a thousand white fragments”. When the conch shell was destroyed, that is when it was foreshadowed that there is officially no more civilization within their society. After the shell “exploded”, Piggy was killed right after by Rodger, one of Jack’s hunters. Although Piggy has been brutally slaughtered by Rodger, no one showed any sympathy for his death, instead they ignored the fact that he had been murdered and they focus on hunting. This reveals how people would go beyond limits when it comes to survival in life or death situations. Aside from foreshadowing, Golding also uses the characterization of Jack to reveal the limits humans would push if they were put in life or death situations.
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