How Does Piggy's Glasses Symbolize The Similes In Lord Of The Flies
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William Golding’s Lord of the Flies manifests that Piggy’s glasses symbolize technology and intelligence/logic. For instance, they represent technology because they are a man-made object and they are used to start the fire in chapter 2. Jack gets the idea to use Piggy’s spectacles to start the fire “and pointed suddenly. ‘His specs--use them as burning glasses!’” (Golding 40). This represents technology because burning classes were invented by man. Technology refers to the industrial arts, pure science, and engineering. Piggy’s glasses apply to all of that. Another instance (also in chapter 2) is when Piggy uses his common sense to tell the boys that they were being immature and irresponsible, and how all that caused one