Those little angels and demons on someone’s shoulder aren’t just to help them make a decision, although that is a factor of their functionality. Those little angels and demons on their shoulder are also their superego, and their id. That person, in themselves, is the ego. Of course, this is just an example; these three all exist in one’s mind as a fraction of how their thoughts work. Golding uses the representation of the superego, ego, and the id throughout the story to show people what they can become if a person ignores reason and leans towards the id.
The superego's attempt to give guidance and knowledge, even in the hardest of chaos, keeps everyone in balance regardless whether or not anyone wants the advice it has to give.
After the boys
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Piggy’s burst demonstrates how much a person can go too far in their ignorance of what they shouldn’t be doing. The superego will pop into their head and show them exactly what they did, where they went wrong, and what they could’ve done differently. The mountain, during the incident of the fire, symbolizes the human mind. The fire represents a person’s mistakes. The rest of the boys, not created as symbols, but instead representing actual people taking in all of what the superego has to deal on them. The rest of the island symbolizes the world outside one’s mind and how their actions impacted it. With this symbolism, a possible meaning for why Golding chose to put this in the book could be to explain guilt and regret in a person’s head. The superego shows a person their mistake(s) from within their mind. The person looks out from the mind to the real world at that mistake and what it’s done, the mistake that led to the bigger problem flashing through their mind. They begin to feel guilt and regret from what they’ve done. When the boys were debating over whether the beast was existent or