Symbolic significance and an In-depth look in the characters of this story Ryan Farrelly DUE Monday May 24, 1999 FerrelliEnglish 8 Honors In viewing the aspects of the island society, the author William Golding's Lord of the Flies as a symbolic microcosm of society. He chooses to set the children alone in an unsupervised world, leaving them to learn the ways of the world in a natural setting first hand. Many different perspectives can also be considered. Golding's island of marooned youngsters becomes a microcosm. The island represents the individual human and the various characters represent the elements of the human psyche. In My readings I learned that there were deep physiological symbols which led me to investigate into numerous psychology and sociology books. I realized that Golding's world of children's morals and actions then becomes a survey of the human condition, both individually and collectively. Almost textbook in their portrayal, the primary characters Jack, Ralph and Piggy are then best interpreted by Freud's concepts of id, ego and the superego, respectively Traditional psychoanalytic theory states that all human beings are born with instinctual drives that are constantly active even though a person is usually not conscious of thus being driven. Two drives known for sexual pleasure, called libido, the other called aggression In discovering the thrill of the hunt, Jacks pleasure drive is emphasized. In one point in he book Jack said to Ralph you should have been there with us Ralph. We had a smashing time This statement was made right after Jack had violently had killed a gutted a mother pig. This emphasizes the fact that the boys are losing sight of reality drifting further and further down the river of fantasies. Ralph on the other hand is still in contact with the rash, civil part of his personality lecturing Jack about how he let the fire go out when that was there onl...
