re would be no order. The glasses are a sign of hope for the boys. They use the glasses for fire, there rescue signal, to cook there food and for light to protect them from the beastie at night."his specs, use them as burning glasses!" (P40, Jack). They all work together in the beginning but the boys slowly lose interest in the fire as different things start to become for important such as hunting and playing. "They let the bloody fire out..."( p71, Ralph). Ralph says this after the ship, their only hope for rescue goes unseen. Only a few boys remain loyal. The glasses symbolize logic but the masks the boys wear create an excuse not to be logical and civilized.The purpose of the masks are to hide from their conscience. The boys use it as an excuse to live as savages instead of civilized English boys. The mask is a symbol of savagery, evil and the hunt. "Jack looked no longer at himself but at an awesome stranger"(p66, narrator). The masks made the boys, especially Jack, seem like something they were not. "A little boy who wore the remains of an extraordinary black cap on his red hair and who carried the remains of a pair of spectacles at his waist, started forward, then changed his mind and stood still." This quote shows how the boys become savages. The masks gave the boys power and evilness. The tribe loses its innocence and they let their evil inside take over. They use the masks to hide from themselves and each other. The hunts for pigs are all done while wearing masks because they found courage behind the masks. This was their excuse for disregarding the rules and order. The conch, the glasses and the masks are several symbols used throughout the novel to show how evil overcame good. The conch represent law and order while the glasses show logic and hope. The masks are used to display the evil present in the human race. Everything in life is used to represent something it appears not to be. It is easy to forget what is right in lif...
