Golding uses the characterization of Jack and Piggy as foil characters through Freud’s id and superego to emphasis the conversion of man from civilization to savagery. According to Diane Andrews Henningfield, a professor at Adrian College, “each of the characters personifies a different aspect of the human psyche: the id, the superego…the id (located in the unconscious mind) works always to gratify its own impulses” while “the superego is the part of the mind that seeks to control the impulsive behavior of the id.” Throughout the book, Piggy was the voice of reason of reason on the island and “seeks to control the impulsive behavior of the id.” When the boys accidentally set fire to the island, Piggy remarks,” won’t we look funny if the whole
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They discuss ways to play the game properly, “"You want a pig," said Roger, like a real hunt, ‘or someone to pretend’.”(102) Then the boys uses Robert to play their game and acting as a pig, Robert is almost very badly injured as the boy’s almost let their savage instinct take over. Overtime, the group of hunters hunt not, of out necessity, but out of pleasure, as described in the disturbing scene when they are killing the sow who will later become the Lord of the Flies. Even when hunting a real pig, Even Ralph reverts to savagery, “the desire to squeeze and hurt was too overmastering.”(101) Ralph’s desire to exercise aggression implies that “however strong his or her instinct toward civilization and order, might be has an undeniable, innate drive toward savagery as well.” Additionally, when Jack is upset no one voted Ralph out of his position as chief, he announces,” I don’t want to play anymore, at least not with you.”(113) His juvenile response reminds readers that they are only boys and reinforces the game metaphor as this competition for savage supremacy. As the novel progresses and the boys become more savage, there reversion into barbarism is symbolized by the type of games they play, “swimming in the lagoon or in the sea, eventually lead to killings of each other, brutal beatings, dancing like cannibals after a successful hunt, and a savage in
They discuss ways to play the game properly, “"You want a pig," said Roger, like a real hunt, ‘or someone to pretend’.”(102) Then the boys uses Robert to play their game and acting as a pig, Robert is almost very badly injured as the boy’s almost let their savage instinct take over. Overtime, the group of hunters hunt not, of out necessity, but out of pleasure, as described in the disturbing scene when they are killing the sow who will later become the Lord of the Flies. Even when hunting a real pig, Even Ralph reverts to savagery, “the desire to squeeze and hurt was too overmastering.”(101) Ralph’s desire to exercise aggression implies that “however strong his or her instinct toward civilization and order, might be has an undeniable, innate drive toward savagery as well.” Additionally, when Jack is upset no one voted Ralph out of his position as chief, he announces,” I don’t want to play anymore, at least not with you.”(113) His juvenile response reminds readers that they are only boys and reinforces the game metaphor as this competition for savage supremacy. As the novel progresses and the boys become more savage, there reversion into barbarism is symbolized by the type of games they play, “swimming in the lagoon or in the sea, eventually lead to killings of each other, brutal beatings, dancing like cannibals after a successful hunt, and a savage in