ID In Lord Of The Flies

Super Ego vs. ID Lord of the Flies is a psychological allegory where Piggy’s personality represents the Super Ego and Jack’s personality represents the ID, because Piggy always refers to how society should act, while Jack is very aggressive and only cares about hunting and killing. In the story, Piggy is a smart, nerdy, and chubby boy, who knows there are no adults on the island to care for the children. Piggy believes that in order to be rescued and to survive on the island, they need to build shelters and maintain a signal fire, but the “littluns" don't understand their work duties, causing Piggy to lose his temper, “I got the conch! Just you listen! The first thing we ought to have made was shelters down there by the beach. It wasn't half …show more content…
Furthermore, Piggy, becoming impatient, was worried that he was the only one who knew what to do in order to survive, while everyone else was running around acting uncivilized. Even though Piggy is trying his best to be a valuable member of the group, there are some boys on the island that are self-absorbed, narcissistic and barbaric. Jack is the prime example of this behavior. While Simon and Ralph were building shelters all day long, Jack and his boys were hunting because they insisted that meat was an absolute necessity to survive and did not care about anything else, “He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up” (51). Jack had no desire to create a civilized community on the island like Piggy, Ralph and Simon, but instead, her focuses on killing. Jack has always been a bully, even at school, but now that his is marooned on the island, he has lost all societal control. Piggy’s and Jack’s behavior while stranded on the island in Lord of the Flies, appears to represent the psychological allegory of the Superego and the ID. They have opposing views on survival, where Piggy focuses on shelter, rescue and civilized norms, and Jack focuses only on hunting, killing, and he does not want to