THE ANALYSIS OF PIGGY’S FORTITUDE IN COPING WITH HIS CONFLICTS IN WILLIAM GOLDING’S LORD OF THE FLIES
Abstract
represents what happen on human being in his life. As long as human being
lives in the world, he/she cannot be separated from his/her environment, and always
experiences many problems in his/her life. As a human we are not perfect, we have
some shortcomings the same as like other people have. So, we have to accept that and
respect other people as we respect ourselves. That seems in William Golding’s Lord
of the Flies.
Lord of the Flies is the first famous novel of William Golding as the first
famous British critic novelist and short story. The story is about a group of young
boys who are stranded in the isolated island and subsequently attempt to govern
themselves. Piggy is the fat asthmatic boy in the story who cannot do anything at
first, but he has power that changes his life.
Through this thesis, Piggy’s external and internal conflicts and his fortitude
that enable him to overcome the conflicts he faces are profoundly explored. It is
found out that Piggy gains the fortitude through hard efforts which change him into a
brave boy. After he gains fortitude, he becomes a boy who can influence his friends
and makes them respect him.
In analyzing the story, two approaches are used to analyze the novel; they are
the psychological and sociological approach. Library research and internet sites used
to complete the data analysis. The thesis consists of five chapters. First, talks about
introduction of the thesis, the second explain the biography of William Golding and
the synopsis of Lord of the Flies. The meanings of the terms are available in the third
chapter, and the fourth talks about the main point of this thesis that discusses Piggy’s
fortitude in coping with his conflicts. The last chapter is conclusion of the thesis.