Morals In Lord Of The Flies Essay

Are our actions truly ours or a side effect of the society that we live in? Well it's explored in novel The Lord of The Flies. The Lord of The Flies by William Golding is a story about a group of young English boys who were stranded on a remote desert island during an unamed world war where nuclear bombs were being used. There are many characters in the novel but I intend to write about omly three being Ralph, Piggy, Jack all representing the three different human ethical ideals being the Id, the Ego, and the Superego. Jack represnts the human ethical ideal of the Id, or the urge to survive no matter what the cost. Throughout the novel Jack is seen doing cruel and violent actions in order to get what he wants done. Jack said early in the novel "The thing is, fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.", Jack is saying that fear alone is just a mere emotion therefore it has no effect on him. Jack not showing fear means that he hasn't nothing to worry about or be scared which means he will do whatever to survive hecause to him there are no more repercussions hence for nothing to fear. In the novel the …show more content…
Piggy spends the entire novel serving as the closest thing to civilization and order. Piggy from the very beginning is obsessed with the conch which Ralph used early in the story to establish order. Piggy questioned in chapter six, "What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?". Piggy could tell that the boys were starting to slip further and further away from the order that he so desired and believed was needed for them to survive and to be rescued but he learned rather gruesomely that he was correct. Jack, Ralph, and Piggy all represnted the three vastly different human ideals in The Lord of The Flies. I agree with William Golding's choice to represent these ideals because it adds an element of variety and different thinking as you see the slip from civiliaztion to