William Golding's Lord Of The Flies

Freud of the Flies When the day meets the night, all is golden in the sky, until the moon slowly captures the sun’s light, the sky getting darker with each passing minute. This inherent daily practice begun in 1952, when Lord of the Flies, an allegorical fiction novel written by William Golding in the midst of international epidemic World War II, was published. Within the novel, a sense of malevolence takes over a young man named Jack as he morphs into a savage beast, before proceeding to advocate for devilish behavior and attempting to convince the other young men to be free from the shackles of society by becoming savages. One of these young men, Ralph, is caught in the crossfire between his born-in savage nature and bred-in civilized composure,

Another boy, ‘Piggy’, resists all urges and attempted to contend with logic and reason, attempting to adjust the island as if it were the same society these boys had been a part of their entire lives. Beginning the novel, Golding leaves these characters stranded with the light of the day, however nature takes its course as the sun soon abandons them when the moon brought his night, leaving nothing but the witnessing of a Freudian evolution. This evolution pertains to the Id, and Ego, and the Superego, the three parts of the human psyche that psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud identified in his theory. Freud's theory is connected directly into the novel and focus’ on the unconscious, which is primarily run by the Id, or the devil on one’s shoulder. This Id immediately was identified as Jack, the evil boy. Freud also identified the significance of the innocent and corruptible conscious, the Ego, which is identified as Ralph, the fair boy. Lastly, Freud balances the unconscious with the Superego, Piggy, the fat boy, who is the angel on one’s shoulder that swayed the Ego

From the beginning of the novel when he first became a hunter, Jack is thrust into this position of darkness and villainy, as his “mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge of the had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig,” (70). Although beginning with a simple animal, this characterizes Jack with an ability to kill and an innate sense of evil with desires he cannot remove from his head that he must fulfill at all costs. Moreover, Golding further implies the characterization of prey and predator, as he takes pleasure from the sinful ideal of a struggling prey’s life being taken. Jack’s need for power is displayed even further through this characterization as well, as his mind beging interchanging a pig and Ralph, his Ego. This characterizes the beginning of Jack’s exponential growth as his time prolongs on the island, as he becomes powerful on his journey, becoming more and more brutal, and losing sight of human nature, only focusing on the mere act of shoving a spear “right up her ass!” (196). This mentality embodies Jack as an Id, as his desires to control take over an innocent sow for his own sick pleasure. Manifesting in twisted lights, Jack’s need for the slaughtering of