Jack And Piggy

One major portion of Sigmund Freud’s perspective on psychology involves the personality structure of the id, ego, and

Piggy is logical in the sense that he does not think as a child like the other boys. He is wise beyond his years. For instance, a majority of the boys are convinced there is a “beast” on the island. It is common for kids to imagine and believe in monsters, especially if such kids are stranded alone. But, Piggy thinks more rationally about a monster. In the book, he says, “I know there isn’t no beast-not with claws and all that” (Golding 84). Another quote representing his logic says, “…cried Piggy, with bitter realism” (Golding 43). Piggy is also very intelligent, as I have once said. Throughout the book, he shows it. He once says, “The first we ought to have made was shelters down there by the beach” (Golding 45). He continues to say, “How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?” (Golding 45). As the other boys found amusement in creating a fire, Piggy is thinking of the effects of their actions, and elaborating on how to successfully survive. The other kids seem to lack this knowledge, only Piggy thinks so critically and wisely of every action they make. Emotionally, Piggy is insecure. Piggy struggles with the name-calling. From the start of the book, he presents how much he despises the nickname

Freud described humans as having three essential components that built personality. The three components were the id, the ego, and the superego. He described the id, as being what governed an infant’s drive to overcome their primitive biological desires. According to his theory infants had no other goal than to release the tension that built up when their

Finally, Piggy fits the Super Ego because he focuses on the survival of all the boys, making sure no one breaks the customs they used to back in their homeland Britan.

Freud Sigmund, based on his study of the psychosexual development, came up with the Structural Model which refers to the three parts of a person’s personality. These parts are known as the Id, Ego and Superego. He believes that by the time of the birth, a newborn, has already the Id which is the pleasure-seeker portion of our personality and through that we are able to know and get our basic needs satisfied. (Sarah Mae Sincero (Jun 15, 2012). Psychodynamic Theories of Personality ,Retrieved Aug 03, 2015 from

Piggy’s role in the novel is heavily symbolic. He symbolizes the force of reason among the boys. To the boys what he says mimics that of what their teacher or maybe their parents may have said back home. However due to his appearance they don’t feel the need or desire to listen to him as they would have listened to their teacher at home. In our world the same is true. Many wise people are shunned simply because of they way they look. This is more evident during our younger years but does continue as we age. At what point will we as a society learn to listen to those people who should help guide the more inane? No one knows, but as in the book things could go wrong. Piggy’s gradual loss of sight and, eventually, the loss of his life itself, are used to show the “progressive degeneration of the boys and their

(Olsen 5). As the superego, it is only natural that Piggy would be the first one to notice and warn the others about consequences and failure, mentioning several times the importance of surviving and getting rescued (and the consequences of failure to do so.) Piggy’s natural ability to voice the possible consequences shows how he is very rational, stressing the need to survive and get home instead of wasting time on playing around. In conclusion, Piggy’s ability to act rationally and as a conscience proves that he represents the superego of the

Sigmund Freud’s theory containing the id, ego, and superego play a big role in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Sigmund Freud’s theory clarifies the personality traits that were expressed through the main characters, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The id stands for a character who has no control on his or her impulses. The ego stands for a reconcile personality within a character.

Freud’s structural and topographical model of personality, revolves around the id, ego and superego (McLeod, 2008). As a newborn, I was born with my id which allowed me to get my basic needs met. As an infant, I would cry if I was hungry or tired or just wanted to be held, I did not think of anyone else. The second part of my personality started around when I was three years old, and according to Freud this is when I began to develop my ego. An example of this would be if I was hungry I would want to satisfy my id, but at the

Freud developed the psychoanalytic theory of personality development, which argued that personality is formed through internal conflicts among three fundamental structures of the human mind: the id, ego, and superego. According to this model of the psyche, the id is the set of uncoordinated trends; the super-ego plays the critical and moralizing role; and the ego is the organized, realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the super-ego (Wikipedia, 2017).

Sigmund Freud created the structural model of personality that describes the id, ego, and superego parts of a person. Id is represented as the devil and based on the pleasure and benefiting themselves. Ego is the angel and devil together, where there is balance of good and bad. Lastly, superego is shown as the angel with good behavior and morals. In Golding’s book Lord of the Flies, he uses Jack, Ralph, and Piggy to represent Sigmund Freud’s theory of the three personalities: id, ego, and superego.

Sigmund Freud was a psychoanalytic theorist who identified three interacting parts of a person’s psychological functioning; Id, Ego, Superego. Freud also created the stages of psyhosexual development; starting from the first year of life, to puberty.

The soviet communist party, or the Bolsheviks, always new that strong propaganda was essential to increase the consciousness of the masses. As stated in the Encyclopedia of Propaganda, " propaganda was central to Marxist-Leninist ideology long before the Bolshevik revolution of 1917."(675) The power of persuasion and coercion were exercised with great force by Soviet leaders. The two leaders whom utilized propaganda to influence public opinion in the USSR were Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin. Both men used many different facets of the media to spread their propaganda. They also used the troubled social climate along with the ignorance of the masses to custom tailor a regime that lasted for over seven decades.

Also, Wilson set this story in 1931 on a train from Vienna to Munich. This setting is well known as one rapidly intensifying towards the anti-semitistic views that took over in 1933 when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party came into power. Munich being one of the original locations of interest and power for the Nazi party. For someone reading this story for the first time they may or may not pick up on this allegorical reference to the Second World War, but when it is known we are shown a whole knew meaning to the story. Wilson hinted at this when he said “Many people slept until they reached Munich. Then they all began to wake up.”. This seems to suggest that people in this time were so focused on their personal economic issues that it took them a while to pay attention to the massed genocides that the Nazis began to commit once they had obtained power.

Freud strategized that the personality was composed of three elements; the id, ego, and superego. The id is the component of personality that is present from birth, and is exclusively unconscious. “According to Freud, the id is the source of all psychic energy, making it the primary component of personality” (Cherry,1). On the other hand, the ego is the element of the personality that is responsible with reality. “According to Freud, the ego develops from the id and ensures that the impulses of the id can be expressed in a manner acceptable in the real world” (Cherry, 1). It