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Jack Symbolism In Lord Of The Flies

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Towards the middle and end of Lord of the Flies, Jack and Ralph tend to argue a lot over power, each other’s viewpoints/beliefs about how to act, what was essential to their needs in order to survive and be rescued, etc. In William Golding’s book Lord of the Flies, the boys of an English boarding school who go by the names of Ralph, Piggy, Simon, Sam and Eric, and later Jack and Ralph, crash on an unknown, uninhabited island and must survive until found. William Golding uses the Id symbolism connected to Jack to represent him as the main antagonist.
Golding first represents Jack as being the Id when he shows Jack obsessing over killing the pigs. When Jack and his tribe were about to go hunting in the forest, he said, “Now listen. We might go
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