Psychology the study of the human mind and how it functions, Sigmund Freud created psychoanalysis and is considered as the father of modern-day psychology. William Golding utilizes Freud's theory in the novel Lord of the Flies through Freud's beliefs in having three components of personality: the ID, the superego, and the ego. Golding presents a group of civilized British boys stuck on an uninhabited/tropical island competing for control while failing to keep their civilization and innocence intact. Moreover, Freud's analyzation on personality exceedingly demonstrates an acknowledgment of the theme of Golding's piece of literature Lord of the Flies, the darkness of human nature; portrayed by applying psychoanalytic theory to each character,
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The Super Ego develops around the age of five, the moral parts of people and develops due to the moral/ethical restraints placed on one by caregivers. The Super Ego is a counterbalance of the Id that seeks to inhibit the ID's demands. The two components of the Super Ego is the conscience dictating one's beliefs of right and wrong, and the Ego ideal is one's imaginary picture of one's perfect self. Certainly emphasizing Piggy radically the conscience, and Simon truly the Ego ideal. Piggy is an intellectual young boy constantly being mistreated on his weight and asthma. Piggy is continually linked with his glasses symbolizing knowledge, and the conch symbolizing unity/civilization. Piggy is considered to be the adult-figure on the Island due to his references to his aunt, and his requirement for setting and following rules. Piggy acting like the conscience, "This was too bitter for Piggy, who forgot his timidity in the agony of his loss. He began to cry out, shrilly: You and your blood, Jack Merridew! You and your hunting! We might have gone home"(Golding, 70), Piggy attempts to lift Jack's and the hunter's emotions to guilt and remorse for permitting the fire to go out. Simon is characterized as sympathetic, known for morality, spirituality, and being a naturalist, as well as a Christ-figure. Simon's innately honorable behavior could serve as an example to the other boys, just like the image of the ideal self in the Ego ideal. He exhibited exemplary behavior, "Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach, pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage, passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands"(Golding, 56), supporting as an ideal image to those who are in need of it, instead of doing what is fancied as the ID. Simon's idealness continued by providing a piece of his meat to Piggy, retrieving Piggy's glasses after Jack punched him, and being the
The Super Ego develops around the age of five, the moral parts of people and develops due to the moral/ethical restraints placed on one by caregivers. The Super Ego is a counterbalance of the Id that seeks to inhibit the ID's demands. The two components of the Super Ego is the conscience dictating one's beliefs of right and wrong, and the Ego ideal is one's imaginary picture of one's perfect self. Certainly emphasizing Piggy radically the conscience, and Simon truly the Ego ideal. Piggy is an intellectual young boy constantly being mistreated on his weight and asthma. Piggy is continually linked with his glasses symbolizing knowledge, and the conch symbolizing unity/civilization. Piggy is considered to be the adult-figure on the Island due to his references to his aunt, and his requirement for setting and following rules. Piggy acting like the conscience, "This was too bitter for Piggy, who forgot his timidity in the agony of his loss. He began to cry out, shrilly: You and your blood, Jack Merridew! You and your hunting! We might have gone home"(Golding, 70), Piggy attempts to lift Jack's and the hunter's emotions to guilt and remorse for permitting the fire to go out. Simon is characterized as sympathetic, known for morality, spirituality, and being a naturalist, as well as a Christ-figure. Simon's innately honorable behavior could serve as an example to the other boys, just like the image of the ideal self in the Ego ideal. He exhibited exemplary behavior, "Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach, pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage, passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands"(Golding, 56), supporting as an ideal image to those who are in need of it, instead of doing what is fancied as the ID. Simon's idealness continued by providing a piece of his meat to Piggy, retrieving Piggy's glasses after Jack punched him, and being the