Lord of the Flies is a brilliant novel, which embarks many social and psychological aspects. Written in 1954 by Nobel Prize winning author William Golding, engages readers to analyze the dark side of humanity, and the savagery that underlies each civilized human being. The novel first encompasses readers with a horrific plane crash, which in then leads to a group of young English boys stranded on a deserted island without any adult supervision. Initially, the boys attempt to form a micro- societal culture similar to the one they left behind, in order to survive. However in their attempts to form a civilized group for survival, the boys are faced with many challenges of power struggle, and the dehumanization of mankind when creating a society.
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Sigmund Freud created his personality theory to explain the complex behavior of human beings. He argued that personality is formed through conflicts among three fundamental structures of the human mind, the id ego and superego. Each structure is unconsciously developed in the human mind and through conflict each structure comes into play making a person act or behavior a certain way. In Lord of the Flies readers can easily see each of these concepts in three distinct characters, Jack, Piggy, and Ralph. Jack represents the Id, which is the primitive, instinct component of personality. It consists of the “biological unconscious aspects of human nature”(McLeod, 2008). The id is the impulsive side of personality, which is driven by the primal and violent urges, in response to direct and immediate damages and or desires of ones surroundings. In the novel Jack represents an initial need for power and will do anything to make the boys aware of his need. For instance Jack tries to take power away from the group leader by causing a disturbance in one of their meetings and questioning leadership authority in front of the whole group. Jack also yells at the boys trying to restart his power as a leader stating “and you shut up! Who are you, anyway? Sitting there telling people what to do. You can’t hunt, you can’t sing—I’m …show more content…
Schemas are highly abstract mental constructions that serve as templates for understanding more concrete mental experiences” (Williams, 2015). Author William Golding interpreted this throughout the novel by comparing the boys with two different schemas, instinct of civilization with good and the instinct of savagery with evil. In the novel the boys are faced with multiple problems on the island, including their main focus of survival and getting rescued. However when faced with these problems the boys tended to act in different ways, such as acting on impulses and creating chaos, or trying to rational think about the best possible solution. Generally, however Golding implies that the instinct of savagery is far more primal and fundamental to the instinct of civilization, which he makes clear in chapter 11. During chapter 11 one character named Roger, who throughout the novel acts impulsively, and savagery ended up killing Piggy who did nothing wrong. Due to this Golding emphasizes with the schema that savagery plays a role in evil and that when society is not under control, or in order people become
Sigmund Freud created his personality theory to explain the complex behavior of human beings. He argued that personality is formed through conflicts among three fundamental structures of the human mind, the id ego and superego. Each structure is unconsciously developed in the human mind and through conflict each structure comes into play making a person act or behavior a certain way. In Lord of the Flies readers can easily see each of these concepts in three distinct characters, Jack, Piggy, and Ralph. Jack represents the Id, which is the primitive, instinct component of personality. It consists of the “biological unconscious aspects of human nature”(McLeod, 2008). The id is the impulsive side of personality, which is driven by the primal and violent urges, in response to direct and immediate damages and or desires of ones surroundings. In the novel Jack represents an initial need for power and will do anything to make the boys aware of his need. For instance Jack tries to take power away from the group leader by causing a disturbance in one of their meetings and questioning leadership authority in front of the whole group. Jack also yells at the boys trying to restart his power as a leader stating “and you shut up! Who are you, anyway? Sitting there telling people what to do. You can’t hunt, you can’t sing—I’m …show more content…
Schemas are highly abstract mental constructions that serve as templates for understanding more concrete mental experiences” (Williams, 2015). Author William Golding interpreted this throughout the novel by comparing the boys with two different schemas, instinct of civilization with good and the instinct of savagery with evil. In the novel the boys are faced with multiple problems on the island, including their main focus of survival and getting rescued. However when faced with these problems the boys tended to act in different ways, such as acting on impulses and creating chaos, or trying to rational think about the best possible solution. Generally, however Golding implies that the instinct of savagery is far more primal and fundamental to the instinct of civilization, which he makes clear in chapter 11. During chapter 11 one character named Roger, who throughout the novel acts impulsively, and savagery ended up killing Piggy who did nothing wrong. Due to this Golding emphasizes with the schema that savagery plays a role in evil and that when society is not under control, or in order people become