Separating the Jack's and the Piggy's
             "Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood." According to Sigmund Freud's model of the mind there are three different forms of aspects of personality. The ID or basic drives of the human emotions, the super-ego or sub-conscience mind, and the EGO, conscience sense of self, which balances the both ID and super-ego are all apart of William Golding's novel. In William Golding's book Lord of the Flies, he spills a small group of British schoolboys on a tropical island. They play out their time on the island and slowly their human nature or "ID's" begin to unleash, although there are some who resist. One of those boys, Ralph, the protagonist, represents the ego in three ways. One, by demonstrating his orderliness and sense of priorities, two, by watching over Jack's stupidity, or his "ID", and thirdly, Keeping Piggy, who represents the "Super-EGO" safe from harm and ideas in mind.
             First of all, throughout the book Ralph's expresses his resourcefulness and thoughts for the tribe by making things more organized. Ralph's first priority was setting up an orderly government. Ralph: "And another thing, we can't have everybody talking at once. We'll have to have hands up like at school. Then I'll give him the conch." -p.31. This shows that Ralph concerned with free ideas and a neat democracy. Ralph also wants to satisfy the tribe's needs. Ralph: "There's another thing, we can help them to find us, so we must make some smoke on top of the mountain, and we must make a fire." -p.35. This is constant throughout the novel whether it is fire, shelters or just getting things done; he just wants to benefit himself and others for the long run.
             Secondly, Ralph represents the EGO by keeping Jack controlled. Throughout many of the meetings, issues like "The Beastie" comes up and it is up to Ralph to stop the rumors and give the little-uns comfort. Jack: "Ralph's right of course. There isn't a ...