Good And Evil In Sigmund Freud's Lord Of The Flies

“All human beings are commingled out of good & evil” was a quote once said by notable Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson. This quotation discusses and supports William Golding’s, the author of Lord of the Flies, belief that all humans have a distinct character flaw that, when left unchecked by morals and laws of society, will eventually corrupt the individual. In Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, it’s shown how due to their environment and lack of supervision, the young boys slowly progress and evolve into barbaric, bloodthirsty individuals.

Lord of the Flies is a gruesome, dark and intense novel written as a political allegory by the author William Golding. In this novel Lord of the Flies, there are various significant symbols the most being Piggy’s glasses because of how it allows a logical smart boy to see and perform tasks, it becomes a tool of innovation being able to start fires, and how it leads to the destruction of an island.

In the novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, Piggy’s glasses represent both weakness and power. The symbolism for the glasses progresses throughout the novel.

Piggy, though not the most memorable in The Lord of the Flies, resonated the most whilst reading this book. Piggy is the stereotypical nerdy kid who seems to be perpetually bullied, even when he is on a deserted island. He has pinkish skin with glasses and asthma with a belly that ate perhaps too much candy from his aunt’s candy shop. While Piggy is almost useless physically, he is very strong mentally, and proves this when he formulates the idea of the conch, but is too weak to blow into it and call everyone. Piggy seems socially awkward, as if he hasn’t spent much times with his fellow peers and rather passed the time with the adults in this life. We see this when Piggy frequently parrots his aunt’s advice such as “My auntie told me not to run… on account of my

In the beginning of the Lord of the Flies we are introduced to two young boys, who have survived a tragic plane crash. The aircraft was an evacuation plane and it was transporting the group of boys out of England. One of the boys named Piggy is trying to catch up to the other boy, Ralph. Piggy is described as being very fat and shorter than Ralph. He wears “thick spectacles” (William Golding 7) and he is the first to determine that they are on an island. Piggy is also the one that knows how to use the conch shell and comes up with the use of it, which is to call everyone else to the beach. He believed the conch created order. Once the conch had been used we are introduced to more boys and they gain interest in Piggy’s glasses. They discover that Piggy’s glasses can start fires and they refer to them as “burning glasses” (Golding 40). The boys also rejoiced when they discovered that his glasses could create the fires. They proclaimed, “His specs - use them as burning glasses!” (Golding 38). The spectacles symbolize Piggy’s intelligence, which distinguished him from the others. Without the glasses Piggy would be blind and he would not know what to do. Although Piggy is portrayed as being physically weak and not having a great chance at survival, he is the only one that seemed to know a few survival skills. He is the one that created the fire, sundial and shelter. Without his glasses he would not be ‘intelligent’. His appearance and personality cause him to be shunned

For centuries, psychologists and psychoanalysts have studied humans in hopes of discovering a common link, a pattern per say, in what provokes their certain thoughts and actions. Many question certain values, morals, religion, even their brain chemistry, but nobody knows for certain. Sigmund Freud’s theory suggests that human actions/personalities derive from three parts of the human psyche; the id, ego and superego. William Golding analyzes this further in his novel, Lord of the Flies, which is about a large group of boys that crash-land on a deserted Island after fleeing a dangerous England in the times of WWII. These young boys are used to entertain the idea of savagery vs. civilization and how evil lies deep within us all. After

Throughout history, philosophers have wondered what essentially drives people to do certain actions. It is not clear whether these actions occur because humans are intrinsically good or bad. Nevertheless, the novel Lord of the Flies and several historical examples provide some insight into why human beings may be fundamentally bad.

The Lord of the Flies by William Golding is tale of a group of young boys who become stranded on a deserted island after their plane crashes. Intertwined in this classic novel are many themes, most that relate to the inherent evil that exists in all human beings and the malicious nature of mankind. In The Lord of the Flies, Golding shows the boys' gradual transformation from being civilized, well-mannered people to savage, ritualistic beasts.

The Wise Old Man: in the novel, Lord of the Flies, Piggy represent ‘the wise old man’. He was the smartest kid on the island and he like order and would evaluate things often. He was the most caring for the littluns and he was often mocked by the other big kids for being named Piggy and not being able to stand for himself. He wore glasses, which is another sigh that he was wise. The boys even used his specs to start the fire on the mountain.

Lord of The Flies contains many themes as well as motifs of death. One of which is how the world is “falling” down or crashing down, even with the right people of authority. The theme is illustrated through Piggy’s death. Piggy’s death symbolizes great loss of order in humanity. His innocent death represents humanity's destruction and demoralization.

A: Piggy’s main role in Lord of the Flies was representation of intelligence , logic, and the voice of reason. He was one of the first characters to appear in the book, and over the course of the story he became a victim of hurtful jibes and eventually Jack and his tribe’s savage behavior. Piggy’s logical and reasonable nature shows when he votes for Ralph to be chief and when he suggests that the beast is not real. Piggy’s death meant the destruction of reason in the boys’ savage society. This is heavily implied when he dies at the hands of Jack’s tribe. Another thing of importance

Anarchy fallen over the once peaceful land and all but one has returned to their savage ways. In William Golding’s, Lord Of The Flies, The character of Piggy is a symbol of civilization. To commence, Piggy symbolises civilization because of his glasses as the fire is started by thm, and fire is the first sign key to civilization . Secondly, by insisting the continuation of the rules to be enforced on all of the island, Piggy demonstrates the ideals of civilization. Finally, Piggy idealises civilization by wanting to advance in technology on the island. In William Golding’s, Lord of The Flies, Piggy symbolises civilization on the island, while others turn to primitive, savage ways.

One example of the presence of evil is the Pig's head. The pigs head symbolizes the Lord of the Flies and negative engery. Evidence to prove the pigs head is an evil figure, is when Simon confonts the pigs head, “There were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned.” (Golding,138). That quote shows that the pigs head symbolizes the Lord of the Flies. Another quote is when Ralph faces the pigs head, “ A sick fear and rage swept him. Fiercely he hit out at the filthy thing in front of him that bobbed like a toy and came back, still grinning into his face, so that he lashed and cried out in loathing.” (Golding,185). This quote shows that the pigs head gives a negative feeling to the people who approch it. Another example of the evil presence is the Beast; it depicts savagry. Evidence from the novel is when the boys chant “‘ Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!’” (Golding, 152) along with “Simon's dead body moved out toward the open sea.” (Golding, 154). The quotations show that the boys have turned savage, by their cruel actions and desires to kill. Those symbols represent the belief of evil presence in the novel along with the presence of

Lord of the Flies is a book that uses symbolism. One notable example of this is Piggy’s glasses. Everyone on the island thought that Piggy was not useful. He was not helping the group survive. He did not like to help when the others were gathering supplies to build their huts or hunting for food. The group thought it was not an issue to take Piggy’s glasses to start the fire.In the novel it stated “Piggy took off his damaged glasses and cleaned the remaining lens.”(page 101). This shows that piggy's glasses were already cracked where he could not see out of them anyway. His glasses turned out to be one of the main reason the kids survived. Without Piggy’s glasses they would not have been able to start the signal fire and ships would not have found them.

Evil is and forever will be as old as the human race itself. Evil is inherent in humanity. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies depicts a group of boys consumed by chaos as they destroy not only their civilization, but also their morality and culture. William Golding utilizes Jack Merridew to justify his opinion that evil is a part of human nature.