Piggy And The Ego Analysis

ck brings survival instincts, selflessness and the lust for power over an individual's psyche, highlighted by the id. Jack is compelled to fulfill his mortal, basic physiological needs for needs and desires. Throughout the novel, Jack emanates an aura of self-centeredness, and Ralph sees this in the novel. For example, Ralph is enraged at Jack for leaving the fire unattended to go hunting, and Ralph bluntly tells Jack, “you could have had everyone when the shelters were finished. But you had to hunt” (Golding 75). Jack does not consider the repercussions of leaving the fire unattended. While his hunting for wild pig is not necessary for survival; he hunts because it pleases him, To the id, all that matters is the fulfillment to “satisfy basic

Piggy is aware of his Achilles heel which is his physical inferiority to the rest of the boys and prefers to make up for it in interesting ways. In the case of Ralph inviting him to swim in the beach pool, he patiently replies, “you can‟t half swim well.” (8) Parallel to the id, Piggy acknowledges his physical inferiority from nearsightedness, and asthma-The ego identifies the id's sensibility to temptation. Also, he does not endeavor a persona in which he is not by living true to his intellectual identity the ego limits them from committing sins that are out of an individual's natural character. He is also the one which distinguishes the id's savagery and the superego's chastity to come up with a practical situation for the boy's predicament. When the limited surviving members of Ralph group vainly consult with Jack at Castle Rock, Piggy, over the cries of Jack's hunters, cries, “which is better to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?” (200). With Simon gone, Piggy realizes that law and order must be maintained to guarantee everyone's survival until they are saved, and he attempts to emphasize this to Jack's tribe. The group has far too much ordinary civilization, and as a result, abuses it to justify their savage behaviors. "The ego and its eternal faith in logic lie above the id to meet personal wants and social norms

Simon's pureness of his heart opens him up to doing favors for nothing in return. The littluns “lugged him towards the trees” for him to pick off “the fruit they could not reach”; and until “he had satisfied them” did he stop and be on his way (57). The littluns lack the skills and strength to obtain what they desire. Simon fulfills it by doing their work, but he goes the extra mile and does the "right‟ thing by attending to each boy's wants rather than only putting minimal effort in, leaving the children malcontent. Also, Simon has an inequality and mind of an adult's. He is the first and only person to suggest that the boys are the beast, regardless of his anxiety to do so: “Maybe, maybe there is a beast…What I mean is…maybe it‟s only us” (95-96). Innate evil lies within human existence, and we are born with it; however, it is also human nature that puts the fault in an external force rather than in an individual self. Lastly, Simon makes the ultimate sacrifice– his life– in his desperate last shot at shedding light on the truth of the actual identity of the beast itself. After his ordeal with the Lord of the Flies, Simon rushes back to the boys to share his discovery, “crying about a dead man ” (168), only for the savagery of the boys to rise to the surface. Simon genuinely takes honesty to heart, and, though