Symbols can be objects, characters, settings or colours and can symbolise more than one thing at once. Ralph discovers the conch shell but it is Piggy who thinks what can be done with it.

For me, it wasn’t “Dracula” by Bram Stoker or Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” -- it was “Lord of the Flies ... Because the character like that in the book is Piggy, a bespectacled ...

All of the characters in Lord of the Flies are young schoolboys. They try to exist without the rules of adult society which would normally govern their behaviour. As with any group, some of the ...