Symbolism gives a novel a deeper level of meaning and a stronger emotional effect.lord of the flies is a novel extremely rich with symbols that give it a literary value. One of the most important of these symbols is the conch .It comes to stand for authority,democracy and civilized behaviour.Piggy is the one who always reminds the boys about the authority of the conch,while jack is the one who often violates this rule and belittles what this conch represents .Eventually this conch was destroyed and scatterred to pieces with the cruel, unhumanly death of piggy.this comes to mean the end of all civilized sign....

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