Wrongful Decisions In Lord Of The Flies By William Golding

Everybody has made a poor decision before. When several people think their poor choices are okay, they lean towards creating more flaws and doing more harm. This frequently happened in the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding. When Jack commits multiple acts of violence and later enjoys doing worse, like committing murder. To most people, this is perceived as somebody who is desperate for attention, but looking at the psychoanalytic theories, you can see Jack in a new light. Jack bullying the boys and later being a part of something as serious as the murder of Piggy is an act he gained from his parents and shortly after became pleasurable for him. When the boys initially landed on the island, Jack wasn't so timid when it came to speaking

In psychoanalytic theories, the id is the primitive, fundamental, and fully conscious part of the personality; it is determined to fulfill an individual's most basic desires. To a large extent, Jack has an id personality, as he is very determined to gain control through violence, a basic impulse he has. Being that he lacks domination, he occasionally takes it out on others. In chapter 4, when Jack had let the fire go out, Piggy confronted him about it, and the choir group agreed. This angered him, and "he took a step, and able at last to hit someone, he stuck his fist into Piggy’s stomach. Piggy sat down with a grunt. Jack stood over him, and not long after, he smacked Piggy’s head." When Jack does not get his way, he gains the desire to take his anger out on others as a way to be feared. Seeing this can give him pleasure, considering that when his parents would have done it, they got respect. With the control he got from punching Piggy, "Jack was loud and active. He gave orders, sang, whistled, and threw remarks at the silent Ralph," then later on in the book played a role in Piggy’s murder by fighting with Ralph and letting a member of his tribe hit Piggy and knock him over the cliff. This is one of the many ways Jack made a poor decision and got away with

The superego is the ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates. The superego’s criticisms, prohibitions, and inhibitions form a human being's moral sense. At the end of the book, in Chapter 12, it says, "A little boy who wore the remains of an extraordinary black cap on his red hair and who carried the remains of a pair of spectacles at his waist, started forward, then changed his mind and stood still." This is a description of Jack; him changing his mind and staying still was him not admitting to being the leader of his tribe, and this could be because Jack is humiliated by his bad decisions after finally being rescued; he could have realized his wrongs and felt shame being that he's still a kid. Being redeemed from the island could have reminded him of the aggressive parents he has to go back to. Although he had realized his wrongs, he didn't want to face the consequences of being a