Characters Representing Society Groups in William Golding’s 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 …showed first 75 words of 536 total…

…showed last 75 words of 536 total…of Piggy’s lenses and this is clearly Jack’s victory of violence over intelligence. I have learned a lot about how authors can express their opinions symbolically through fictional characters and ideas from this book. Golding’s work has been deciphered and pulled apart by many philosophers and experts in the past and it will mos t certainly regarded as a literary masterpiece of hidden meanings and representations in the days yet to come.