Lord of the Flies (1963)

Hugh Edwards: Piggy

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Quotes 

• Piggy : I've got the conch!

  [the boys jeer and taunt him from above the cliff] 

  Piggy : [shouts]  What is it better to be, a pack of painted savages like you are, or sensible like Ralph is? Which is better, to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?

  [Roger goes angry and pushes a huge boulder, which heads right to Piggy] 

  Piggy : AAH!

  Ralph : Piggy!

  [the boys go silently still and look sympathetic at Piggy's corpse washing away in the sea, except Roger who grins at what he's done] 

• Piggy : What's your name?

  Ralph : Ralph.

  Piggy : I don't care what they call me, as long as they don't call me what they did in school.

  Ralph : What's that?

  Piggy : They used to call me Piggy.

  Ralph : [laughs]  Piggy!

  Piggy : As long as you don't tell the others.

• Ralph : [after the night of Simon's murder]  Piggy, are you the only one left?

  Piggy : There are some littluns

  Ralph : They don't count. No biguns?

  Piggy : Oh, Samneric, they're collecting wood

  Ralph : Nobody else?

  Piggy : Not that I know of

  Ralph : [Sits down next to Piggy]  Piggy? Piggy?

  Piggy : [Zoned out]  Huh?

  Ralph : That was murder.

  Piggy : You stop it! What good are you doing talking like that? It was dark. There was that bloody dance. There was thunder and lightning and rain. We were scared. It wasn't... what you said.

  Ralph : [sobs]  Oh, Piggy!

  Piggy : [comforts Ralph]  It was an accident. He was batty. He asked for it. It was an accident.

  Ralph : Oh, God, I want to go home!

• Piggy : [as the other boys eat]  Aren't I having none?

  Jack : You didn't hunt.

  Piggy : No more did Ralph, no more did Simon.

  [Simon offers Piggy food] 

  Jack : [angrily tosses a piece of pig meat at Simon]  Eat, damn you!

• Piggy : [as the boys are talking about the beast]  I don't believe in no ghosts, ever.

  Jack : Who cares what YOU believe, Fatty!

  [the boys laugh] 

  Simon : [looking disturbed]  Maybe if there is a beast...

  [the boys laugh again] 

  Ralph : Hear him! He's got the conch.

  Simon : What I mean is... maybe, it's only us.

  Piggy : Nuts!

• Piggy : You and your blood, Jack Merridew! You and your hunting! We might've gone home!

  Jack : We needed meat.

  Piggy : You didn't ought to have let the fire go out!

  [Jack slaps Piggy across the face making Piggy's glasses fall off] 

  Piggy : My specs!

  Simon : [picks them up]  Here. Here they are.

  [Piggy puts them on but realizes one of the lenses have cracked and missing pieces] 

  Piggy : [vengefully]  JUST YOU WAIT!

• Ralph : [while swimming in the ocean]  Aren't you coming in?

  Piggy : Oh, it's hot. No, my auntie wouldn't let me, account of my asthma!

  Ralph : Sucks to your asthma!

  Piggy : You can't half swim well.

• [Piggy is supervising the littluns] 

  Piggy : Now, this story is about the place where I live called "Camberley". Now, Camberley is quite an old place, but it hasn't been called "Camberley" all the time. It used to be called "Cambridge Town", and they used to get mixed up with the letters between "Cambridge" or "Cambridge Town". So, letters that were to a person in Cambridge Town used to go to a person in Cambridge. So, they got a bit mixed up so they thought they'd change the name of the post office, because it was the post office that had all the trouble of sorting the letters. And they thought they'd leave the "Cam" from "Cambridge Town", and "Bur" is a river, and there are a lot of rivers round there: "Cam-ber...". And then "Ley" because a lot of towns near there ended with "Ley", their names end with... ended with "Ley". So, they called it "Cam-ber-ley", "Camberley", and that's the true story of Camberley.

• Ralph : Are there ghosts, Piggy? Or beasts?

  Piggy : Of course there aren't.

  Ralph : Why not?

  Piggy : Because things wouldn't make sense. Houses and streets... and TV - they wouldn't work.

  Ralph : But suppose they wouldn't make sense, not here on this island... Supposing things are watching us, and waiting.

• Piggy : I didn't vote for no ghosts, remember that all of you

  Jack : You shut up, you fat slug!

  Piggy : [as Jack tries to wrestle the conch out of his hands]  I've got the conch!

  Ralph : Oh, Jack, let him speak! He's got the conch

  Jack : [to Ralph]  And YOU shut up! Who are you, anyway, just sitting there telling people what to do? You can't hunt! You can't sing!

  Ralph : I'm chief, I was chosen!

  Jack : Why should choosing make any difference? Telling people what to do...

  Ralph : Piggy's got the conch!

  Jack : That's right, favour Piggy as you always do!

  Ralph : Jack!

  Jack : [Mocking Ralph]  Jack! Jack!

  Ralph : The rules, you're breaking the rules!

  Jack : Who cares?

  Ralph : Because the rules are the only thing we've got!

  Jack : Bollocks to the rules! We're strong, we hunt. If there's a beast, we'll hunt it down, and beat, and beat!

  [All the boys except Ralph, Piggy, and Simon scream and run further down the beach] 

• Piggy : [to all the choir boys]  And what are all of your names?

  [the choir boys one by one answer with their respective name: Henry, Maurice, Robert, Rupert, Harold, Bill, Roger, Simon] 

  Jack : I'm Jack

  Piggy : Yeah that boy there, he...

  Jack : You're talking too much! Shut up, fatty!

  Ralph : His name's not "Fatty", his real name's "Piggy"

  Jack : Piggy!

  [All the boys laugh at Piggy]