Many times during the novel, Piggy insists that others respect the conch and what the conch means. Indeed, right up until his death at Castle Rock, he tries to get the other boys to listen to him by shouting, “I got the conch!” How is Piggy’s unbending belief in the conch both representative of his character’s personality and indicative of how unsuited he is for life on the island?

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athenawolf · Answer

It shows that Piggy is the sort of character who needs structure and order, who is conservative, and resents change.  He is still trying to retain some semblance of structure and civilization with the shell.

anonymous · Answer

Piggy represents intelligence in society. Jack represents Dictatorship and Ralph represents Democracy so when he [Piggy] is shouting "I've got the conch!", the intelligent answer/solution is trying to be heard and is being ignored even though there are supposed channels that you can go down in order to have your voice heard.
It shows that there are flaws in both democracy and dictatoship as governments, but there is no room for intelligence in a dictatorship (more of a fear driven solution), and there is some space for other ideas in a democracy (more than one lot of people in power/everyone has a say).