ociety and civilization on the island, and the rise of savage behavior. It also shows the demise of order and the rise of the devil.The conch is a symbol that connects to Piggy in many ways. Both represent the order and structure a society needs for survival. The conch never stops being a symbol of order to some people until it is destroyed, and to others, it loses its meaning early on. For example, Piggy hold faith in the conch until the last minute, while Jack does not really care much about it from the start. Once the conch is broken, it shows the downfall of the role society plays on this island.The last symbol is the beast. At the beginning of the story, the beast is nothing but the fear of the boys showing through because they have never been alone before. Slowly though, the beast becomes a more real thing and eventually, because of the appearance of some things on the island, such as the parachutist, the beast graduates into a full-blown nightmare. Eventually, the degree to which the beast has scared the boys, becomes so great that some begin to be affected by it, not only being scared, but also by being violent. Jack, for example, takes the beast to a new level and uses it to scare the boys into joining in his tribe, and rebelling against and hunting Ralph. The beast rears its ugly head several times and even results I the deaths of some of the boys, which would probably never happened had no one been alarmed about a beast. Of course the beast was not a real monster, but it did harm the boys in a much larger way than fear, it turned them into savages, against their own kind, the ultimate evil. The symbols behind all the characters and objects change as the story goes on and the characters become more lost in the survival and fun aspect of being lost on the island. As the boys care less and less about the rules of civilization and become more and more savage-like. The symbols of good begin to vanish and the symbols o...
