One of my favorite themes I found from Lord of The Flies was that desire for the feeling of importance or acceptance can drive humans to pursue desperate measures. William Golding expresses this with Jack behavior when Ralph is chosen to be Chief over him. It says that “Jack’s face disappeared under a blush of mortification.” (28). When Ralph sees this he feels obligated to offer him something so he won’t be too mad. And it does help.
Another way we can see how this theme flows is with the point of view of Piggy. Piggy wants to be heard, but is never really is. Piggy just wants to be accepted for who he is. Piggy is always trying to be heard and trying to make friends with the other kids on the island but because he is chubby, with asthma and that he has glasses no one wants to be friends with him. And I bet he feels down about it. He wants to be accepted by someone and he also wants to feel important, I think that’s why Piggy always wants to hold the conch and why the conch is so important to him then to anybody else. Piggy is constantly searching for these things and that can be really bad because if Piggy gets desperate enough it could get him into big trouble or even killed.
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