The Human Mind: Id .vs. Ego and Superego (Lord of the Flies

Isaac Lee 9Ak Essay passkey of the fly The world mind Id . vs. Ego and Superego master copy of the move was written by William Golding. It is ab come on a group of boys who crash- arrive on the island. They argon to survive and as the novel progresses, the boys imaginations takes them to h every(prenominal)ucinating about a masher macrocosm on the island. The animate being is a representation of fearfulness and leads to the creator struggle amidst Ralph and doodly-squat with Simon standing by the side. William Golding uses the power struggle as a representation of the charitable mind, how the Id, the savage, basic instinct of our mind is always thither and the reason for civilisation (e. social interaction and rules and the consequences. ) The power struggle represents the benignant mind. The three main characters are the representation of the three checks of the mind, focus on the Id, which is always thither floating in the back end of whizs mind. The human mind is split into three disparate parts, the Id, the Ego and the Superego as suasion by an austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. The Id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends, basically, the hunger for everything we desire.Freud musical theme that the Id was dictated by the libido the energy from lifes instinct and the leave behind to survive, it gives the feeling to desire. The ego is the organized realistic part of your mind, it satisfies the Id by imperious it through with(predicate) any means to divert, trans resile or converting the powerful contract of Id to useful and realistic modes of satisfaction that mess be done in reality and suppresses the need for everything. The superego is your conscience, it judges the right and wrong, it seeks perfection that is beyond the limits of reality, tied(p) up beyond the ego.Overall, the ego is always negotiating with the id, trying to prevent it from over whelming itself charm the superego watches over, jumps in when it thi nks that it Lee, p. 2 can charter a moral determination about the situation. In the Lord of the Flies, cocksucker represents the id. He has an unquenchable starve to knock down and to thrive e. g. He tried to convey the compulsion to cart track d testify and eliminate that was swallowing him up. (P70) The impulse in him to murder was eating him. In the story. As he progresses, he begins to show signs of savagery. In the eginning, they all had one opinion unless that changed radically as the beast showed up. When dogshit perceive about the beast, the first thing he wanted to do was to lean the beast. As you could say, that the beast was a flame that sparked of Jacks Id, by and by that, he left the kinsperson and formed his own, a manifestation for power. As Jack does in the sacred scripture, the Id springs out, takes over mastery of our mind and takes advantage of our fear of the beast. Shortly after that, they began to worship and offering the chieftain of what they kill to the beast.As the Id was driven by the libido, Jack was driven by flowing. Then, the beasts form was a motif, a repeatedly occurring idea, or thing, which upon repetition derives its centre in relationship to the theme. The first time that the beast appeared, nobody truly believed in the beast. In page 34, a child tells Ralph through loutish He wants to know what you are difference to do about the beast thing. (P48). After that, they laughed it off, as if it wasnt real. But after a while, in chapter , they begin to doubt whether the beast is real or not, when samneric dictum a render on the hill.The result They were absolutely terrified about the beast. Ralph represents the Ego in the Lord of the Flies since he has always been essay with Jack in power and strength. A key moment in the book of the power struggle is when Jack leaves the tribe Im going off by myself. He can catch his own pigs. Anyone who wants to hunt when I do can come too. Lee, p. 3 This shows that Jack is far apart from the separate people and only cares about himself. This shows that Jack is power hungry and only cares about himself. This symbolizes that the Ego is trying to control the Id.As the ego, it is also trying to divert the power of the Id to realistic methods as express before, when Jack raised that question of hunting for food everyday and so, Ralph obstinate that Jack could hunt, but not every hour so they can keep the fire going. Therefore, Ralph represents the Ego. Simon represents the superego in the Lord of the Flies. When Simon heard about the beast, he didnt cower away, afraid of the beast, he did the opposite. The only person who does not believe that there is a beast is Simon. Simon later discovers that the physical shape is actually a man in a parachute being dragged up the hill by the wind.He then goes to untangle the figure, even though it is foul and rotten away. We can see this in this quote Simon knelt on all fours and was sick till his stomach w as empty. Then he took the lines in his hands he freed them from the rocks and the ? gure from the winds indignity. He saves the figure even though it is not obligatory, he saves it out of his own profoundness and go forth, he does this not for the greater good, but only because erect because it is unf dividing line for a corpse that has to be strung up like that. Therefore, Simon represents the superego in the Lord of the Flies. The beast in the book is a manifestation of fear.This paragraph will focus on how our fear or Id is always part of us, in the back of our minds, unconsciously. Mentioned in the previous paragraphs, it shows that the mind is split into three different parts, the id, the ego and the superego. The id eats away at us, when there is a inductive reasoning to set us off. The person who really became an id was Jack, by the end of the book he was a dehumanized animal. The trigger for Jack was the the beast itself. When they saw the physical form of the beast, wh ich was just a man on a parachute, they were Lee, p. 4 absolutely terrified, they ran away from it as fast as they could.Something raise to point out was as Ralph was running down the mount, it also state that Ralph found himself taking giant strides among the ashes, heard other creatures crying out and leaping and dared the impossible on the dark slope presently the mountain was deserted, save for the tree abandoned sticks and the thing that bowed. (p135) Notice how here that it describes the other boys as other creatures but not boys. They are descending into the phantasma of primitive humans. At first, they were putting on face paint and just laughing it off, but then it gets very serious as shown through this quote The face of red and white and black, swung through the air and jigged towards quantity. Bill started up laughing then suddenly he fell inactive and bl on a lower floored away through the bushes. Jack rushed towards the twins. The rest are fashioning a line. Come on But- -We- Come on Ill bootlick up and injure- The mask compelled them. (P66 ) Notice that Jack said that they are do a line and they will creep up and stab them. This reflects on the final scene how the hunt for Ralph is just like this scene, it is providing foreshadowing for later. They stab to satisfy their own need to hunt.A great example for this is from Simons cobblers last to shoats final stage and finally to the hunting of Jack. At the death of Simon, we can tell that it was an accident and it was ambiguous whether it was intentional or unintentional, they were all driven to fear with the surroundings. Then came Piggys death. Ralph and Piggy came to Jacks fort for peaceful means to ask for Piggys glasses back. But then, they got into an argument and came teeth to teeth fighting. Roger observed from to a higher place and as it says High overhead, Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his slant on the lever. (p200 201) and then,Lee, p. 5 The ro ck struck Piggy a glancing draw from chin to knee the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist. Piggy, saw nothing, with no time for even a grunt, travelled through the air sideways from the rock, turning over as he went. The rock bounded twice and was lost in the forest. Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back across that square, red rock in the sea. (P200-201) This shows that Roger, under the influence of Jack, did this cruel act of violence on purpose, killing Piggy just like that. But the most inhumane act they did was to hunt and kill Ralph.The reason? Hunting is an act of mainly gaining something like warmness and such while here, they are hunting Ralph just for pleasure and to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder on to that, hunting is usually to hunt animals, but here they are hunting a human. In addition, here is an extraction from the hunting of Ralph. The ululation spread from shore to shore. The savage knelt down by the edge of the thicket, and there were lights flickering in the forest behind him. (Page 221) The hunting of Ralph takes place passim the island. The boys are no longer being described as boys in this quote, as stated that The savage knelt (P221).The children have truly become unwarranted barbarians, hunting each other as if it was just a farinaceous of fun. An interesting point in the book is when Simon is talking to the imaginary Lord of the flies. It holds something very sinister. You knew, didnt you? Im part of you? Close, closedown, close Im the reason why its no go? Why things are what they are? (P158) The Lord of the Flies is always part of us. This supports how it is fear itself that is haunting these boys, they descend into darkness with out civilization. The head speaks to Simon in an ominous way, with Why things are what they are? , suggesting that we created it ourselves.Lee, p. 6 The important of civilization and how, without it we would become savages is a wide topic. The main focus of civilization in this book is fire. Symbolically, the fire represent the will to be civilized the absence seizure of the fire represent the loss of civilization. The fire in this book is a symbol for civilization because they keep it going to signal a ship, in the end, they just give up on keeping the fire going for two reasons, one, Samneric saw the beast on the hill, which made them terrified, second, there was not enough people once most of the people from Ralphs tribe went over to join Jacks tribe.Piggy states that Thats where theyve gone. Jacks party. (P188) They lose the will to live. Jacks ideal of a good life on the island is to hunt and kill nothing else while Ralphs ideal is to sustain the smoke from a fire so a ship will see it and come rescue them. A head to point out is also that Piggy says on P37 I await its gone tea-time This brings back what they were doing back at home a routine. Here in the jungle, they have just recently crashed and have no organizatio n whatsoever, by saying this, Piggy is bringing back the children to what they would have done if they were back in civilization.Another reason for civilization and social interactions is that we would go insane if it were not that we had someone to talk to. For example, when Simon was traversing to the sows head that Jacks tribe had killed and offered to the imaginary beast, this character the Lord of the flies pops up in Simons unconsciousness, he starts to hallucinate. Simon shook. There isnt anyone to serving you. Only me. And Im the Beast. . When we are alone, things like this start to happen. The world, that understandable and lawful world, was move away (P98).Another example of the group descending into civilization is when Jack meant to kill Ralph Vicious, with full intention, he hurled his spar at Ralph. (P201) We dont kill a fellow human being that easily and when we do it is with reason, but here, Jack throws it at Ralph, with intention but without reason. The murderou s hate has consumed Ralph. He is uncivilized and barbaric. In conclusion, Lord of the Flies is a book where the power struggle between Ralph and Jack, but with Simon as the overview figure, is a representation of the human personality, with Simon andLee, p. 7 Ralph trying to contain Jack just as in the mind how the Ego and Superego try to contain the Id, how the Id is always in the back of mind and without civilization we would descend into becoming savages. But the children, as previously mentioned, were only around ten to twelve years old and children as the symbol of innocence but yet they consider and commit such inhumane acts, does it not mean that we are all savages at the arsehole of our heart too?