Psychological Masks
“He capered toward Bill, and the mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness.” The mask represents (Finish hook) Stranded on an island after a plane crash, a group of young schoolboys in William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies struggle to find the balance between fun and survival. With no adults to be found the children elect Ralph, an inexperienced leader who attempts to form a democracy. The newfound order soon crumbles under a dictatorship founded by Jack, a choirboy that was displeased with the verdict. Ralph, who refuses to succumb to Jack’s control, is branded an outlaw with Jack ordering an island-wide search for him, To flush Ralph out of hiding, Jack sets the island ablaze, signaling to a nearby naval ship that then rescues the boys. This depicts the boys fucking
Golding, whose pessimistic view of human nature is represented in the form of Jack as he satisfies Sigmund Freud’s idea of the “id”.
One form of the id that Jack symbolizes is the id’s aggressive behavior. Vexed by the verdict of Ralph as chief, Jack, in a fit of humiliation, questions Ralph’s contributions to the tribe and the democratic system he formed. In a fit of rage, Jack reasons,” He’s not a hunter. He’d never got us …show more content…
One of those few, Simon, decides to climb a mountain in search of the “Beast” and encounters a rotting pig head impaled into a wooden stick. He then, from dehydration, proceeds to hallucinate as the head begins to talk to him. “You knew it didn’t you? Close, close. close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are the way they are.” (Golding 143) Although it may have just been a hallucination , the Beast, the root of many internal problems between the children, explicitly states that it is inside Simon, revealing of the presence of the id in
“He capered toward Bill, and the mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness.” The mask represents (Finish hook) Stranded on an island after a plane crash, a group of young schoolboys in William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies struggle to find the balance between fun and survival. With no adults to be found the children elect Ralph, an inexperienced leader who attempts to form a democracy. The newfound order soon crumbles under a dictatorship founded by Jack, a choirboy that was displeased with the verdict. Ralph, who refuses to succumb to Jack’s control, is branded an outlaw with Jack ordering an island-wide search for him, To flush Ralph out of hiding, Jack sets the island ablaze, signaling to a nearby naval ship that then rescues the boys. This depicts the boys fucking
Golding, whose pessimistic view of human nature is represented in the form of Jack as he satisfies Sigmund Freud’s idea of the “id”.
One form of the id that Jack symbolizes is the id’s aggressive behavior. Vexed by the verdict of Ralph as chief, Jack, in a fit of humiliation, questions Ralph’s contributions to the tribe and the democratic system he formed. In a fit of rage, Jack reasons,” He’s not a hunter. He’d never got us …show more content…
One of those few, Simon, decides to climb a mountain in search of the “Beast” and encounters a rotting pig head impaled into a wooden stick. He then, from dehydration, proceeds to hallucinate as the head begins to talk to him. “You knew it didn’t you? Close, close. close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are the way they are.” (Golding 143) Although it may have just been a hallucination , the Beast, the root of many internal problems between the children, explicitly states that it is inside Simon, revealing of the presence of the id in