PIGGY'S SPECTACLES

THE GLASSES

• they are an important tool for survival
• They give him mulitple perspectives
• They are required to start fires
• It reminds the boys of life before the crash

THE GLASSES

• Set Piggy apart from all the other boys
• He is mocked because of them
• But they are needed to survive

THE GLASSES

• Foreshadow feelings and events on the island
• It proves how people can be intimimdated by knowledge
• "The glasses represent the power of science..."
• When the glasses break, it symbolizes the destruction of civilization

"Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains" (71)

"We mustn't let anything happen to piggy, must we" (106)

"From his left hand dangled Piggy's broken specs"(168)

THE GLASSES

• Are piggys only contribution to the island
• They are his weakness because he can't see without him
• They are his strength because everyone relies on them