Analysis Of ' Lord Of The Flies '

William Golding in Lord of the Flies depicts the Id, the Ego, and the superego to represent the human psyche. The author creates this representation to emphasize how a society is only sustained success in the balance of power and responsibility. Without a balance, the instinctual Id of the human psyche will take over their minds suppressing the Ego and the Superego. The character Jack represents the Id by giving into his own temptations, Ralph as the Ego by using his logic and reasoning to find solutions to get off the island, with Piggy and Simon as the Superego by their sense of morality to help their “society.”

I am going to start by talking about is the Id. The Id is our instinctual part of our personality that we have at the start of birth. The Id only seeks pleasure and acts on impulse (Rathus 397). Jack best fits as the the Id. His primitive instincts kick in and he becomes a savage and has a thirst for power. The first

Lord of The Flies (LOF) by William Golding is a novel in which a group of British boys aged from five to twelve get stranded on an uninhabited island. They start out having a civilization, thinking they were on an idyll island of pure autonomy, but as the story developed, the civilization turned into savagery. Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist and the founding father of psychoanalysis, came up with the personality theory that three instincts drive our personality and behavior: the id, ego and superego. In LOF, characters like Jack represent the id, and Piggy, the overweight boy with thick glasses, can represent the superego. This leaves for Ralph, the chief of the group, to represent the

Freud, developed a way of thinking that broke down the mind into the id, ego, and super ego. In William Golding’s book, Lord of the Flies this theory explains the boys’ descent into savagery because of the uneven balance of the egos. The id represented the instinctual desires that required immediate satisfaction. The super ego represented moral standards and rule following. Lastly the ego is the healthy balance between the ids desires and the superegos moderation. The ego and the superego were too weak, Freud explains the breakdown of the boys’ turning into savages because the egos’ were off balance given that, Freud describes the descent the best.

In the Lord Of The Flies by William Golding, Frued's Structure of The Mind Theory's three aspects to personality; Id, Ego, and Superego; are evident among the schoolboys. These boys are put in an extraordinarily stressful situation of crash landing on a deserted island, a situation where one of the Freud's aspects takes over the personality. The leading factor to the communal breakdown of the island is the domination of Id within the group. Jack breaks apart the community the boys had created because he reverts to violence under stress, he is uncaring of others, and he thinks on impulse; all aspects of the domination of Id.

Different characters in the novel are created to represent different inner beats of an individual. Ralph is elected to be the group’s leader. Ralph is the order, civilized and productive. The other boys are concerned with having fun and avoiding work. Ralph has his mind set on survival and civilization. Ralph thinks about building shelter and constantly thinking of ways that they can be saved from

Ralph likes to thoroughly think things through, while Jack likes to take immediate action “There

In Golding’s novel lord of the flies, characters are used as symbols and motives that mirror Freud's model of the physic resembling his themes. Golding themes of fear and controversy of civilization and savagery through Jacks and Ralph relationship.(Epstein) The cause of people to do evil things is a natural thing that comes to them through fear, it’s often something that’s pushed away and hidden, Freud calls it the ID.

This is a great example of how Jacks mind works and how he only looks out for himself. This was not the only time that Jacks actions have proven him the ID aspect of the novel. When Jack and Ralph were on the beach, Ralph had asked Jack to help with the huts. Jack was only thinking about himself and told Ralph the he wanted meat over helping out the greater good of the boys. “You wouldn’t care to help with the

Teddy recalled the Once-ler’s words in his head, playing over the instructions given to him as the Once-ler dropped the Truffula Tree seeds into the boy’s hand from the top of the rickety building.

The first part of the personality is the Id. Id is, according to simply psychology, the primitive and instinctive component of personality(1). In Lord of the Flies, Jack represents the id because much like the id, Jack is savage and instinctive. For example, he is obsessed with thrill that comes from hunting and killing,

To begin, sooner or later everyone is able to think hateful thoughts and make vile actions. Almost all of the boys on the island believed in the existence of an island “Beast”. At first, it was just the little kids who believed in it. They would have nightmares and scream during the night. Later the bigger kids began to believe in this beast of evil. In an attempt to calm everyone down, Ralph called for a meeting to figure out everyone’s thoughts on the beast. Simon, one of the bigger kids, eventually addressed what he thinks this beast really is. He was the first to think of the beast, not as a real figure, but as a part of themselves. He tried to explain, “‘What I mean is . . . Maybe it’s only us.’ . . . . Simon became inarticulate

Psychoanalysis of Lord of the Flies ROUGH DRAFT Primitive and instinctive brutality, passionate dependence on rules and regulation, and a balancing connection to reality build upon each other to create a dimensional personality in the mysterious human mind. Created by Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, the concept of the id, superego, and the ego work in tandem to justify human complexity. The use of this principle presents itself in William Golding’s classic novel, Lord of the Flies. Although never stated in the book, Ralph, Jack, and Piggy symbolize the three parts of the human psyche, and their relationship over the course of the novel creates a Freudian allegory.

    Everyone has heard of the term “devil on your shoulder” when it comes to the little voice in someone's head telling them what to do. The small “devil” always tells you to do something you will regret later, but the angel tells you never to listen. People cannot always be conscious of the fact that they have these voices in their head telling them to behave or to misbehave. In the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the characters are developed through the different impulses they have in their head and how they respond to them. The mental structures in the book are the ID, ego, and superego which evolve and mature the young boys in the story. The different mental structures the author uses help the characters of Ralph, Jack, Piggy, and Simon change into older, mature people who have experienced the different aspects of decision making and how it can affect them.

“If he ever wrote a book, he thought, he would present one person at a time, so that the reader wouldn't worry about memorizing a lot of names.” (18)