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LOF_Essay.Imagine an adventure story actually being about the human mind and a theory. The book Lord of the Flies represents Sigmond Freud’s theory of human’s being controlled by the unconscious ... mind of ID, Superego, and Ego very well using the characters, setting, and events they represent. Each character in Lord of the Flies represents a different part of the theory represented through their actions, thoughts, and interactions. The first form of the theory comes in the form of the ID part of the brain. Freud explains the ID part of the brain acts as a “pleasure principle” only seeking immediate pleasure and happiness and as well as having “knows no judgements of value: no good and evil, no morality” [CITATION Com15 \l 1033 ]. The ID comes from the character Jack. Jack is very violent and shows no remorse for things such as stealing Piggy’s specs in order to satisfy Jack’s wanting of pleasure of torturing Piggy. Throughout the novel he teases Piggy not caring about Piggy feelings or if Jack hurts others, he simply just wants to enjoy the situation. Jack’s thoughts also represent the idea of the ID. Jack does not care for rules he cares about who breaks them so he can vision violence occurring. Jack excitedly cries out “We all have rules!” “Lots of rules! Then when anyone breaks em—" [ CITATION Wil54 \l 1033 ]. Jack was also not happy at all when Ralph was elected chief because that would mean Jack would not get complete control over everyone and the island. Then throughout the novel, he has enough and breaks into his own group with the rest of his choir and some littluns stating “[I am] not going to be a part of Ralph's lot--"[ CITATION Wil54 \l 1033 ]. This shows the ID being most prevalent in Jack. Also, with the breakaway, it shows the fact how Jack does not care about keeping the island’s peace and lowering the odds of surviving and someone coming by to rescue them, only his own pleasure and happiness. Jack also already has power by being in charge of the hunting group, but he wants more power this is driven by his ID and because of this he went [Show More]

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