William Golding's Lord Of The Flies: Character Analysis

Another place where one can see that man is inherently born evil is through the interpretation of Simon’s personality. After Simon witnesses the killing of the sow and how brutally Jack and the Hunters hung its head, he begins to confront reality and the thoughts that haunt mans evil mind. He realizes what the beast truly is, that being, our own selves. The beast is within all of us as human beings. Jack’s tribe, including Ralph and piggy participated in killing Simon during their feast, when Simon ran out of the forest to inform the boys of the dead soldier on the island. The next day Ralph is mortified by what he has done and is trying to cope with what he did by talking to Piggy. This can easily be seen through this quote, “the "ego interests"—embracing several disparate behaviors such as

Simon tries to stop this, but he himself is the victim to violence portrayed by the people he used to live with and tried to reform. Simon realizes what the beast truly is, that being, our own selves. The beast is within all of us as human beings. For Ralph, Simon’s death symbolizes a fight between the three parts of freud's theory: ego is the feeling in our mind. This can be interpreted through the quote, “You are a silly boy,” said the lord of the flies, “just a ignorant, silly little boy”(137). The “beast” realizes Simons pure innocence and calls him silly for being so good when everyone else on the island is so horribly malignant. This shows fight between ego and superego.By contrast, the proper functioning of the post oedipal superego, which results in a dynamic of conflict between the ego and the superego, presupposes that the environment allows a balanced apportionment of love and discipline that result in a fusion of instinct The superego decides between right and wrong.develops last, and is based on morals and judgments about right and