Ever since Jack saw his first Pig he only wants to hunt. Jack has become viscous and has started to care for himself and forget about rescue and only think of pig. Jack cannot even think of the future or even hope of rescue, only what he will allow into his barmy mind. Two different times in the novel Jack specifically ignores the fact of getting rescued to do things for himself. “I was talking about smoke! Don’t you want to be rescued? All you talk about is pig, pig, pig!” “But we want meat!” (53 Hemingway). Another time Jack only wants to catch pig and he doesn’t even want to be rescued. Jack says “Rescue?? Yes. All the, I’d like to catch a pig first.” (Hemingway 53). Jack has brought out while on the island an Id personality which means he can’t tell what’s right from wrong and how or even how to act civilized. As Jack becomes crazier and crazier he kills Simon, while Simon was running to tell everyone what the Beast really is. After Jack killed Simon and then Piggy his next target was to kill Ralph. Jack threw his spear at Ralph and hit him in the ribs blood started to ooze out. Then all the boys start on a hunt to find and kill Ralph. Buy the end of the book Jack and Rodger and most of the other boy’s had turned evil and their Id personality started to become obvious.
The Ego personality is the balancing point of ones mind; it allows the mind to balance out the good and the evil. Ralph represents the ego or balancing personality, he always is trying for people to think rational and civilized and to just try and get rescued. Ralph walks over to Jack’s tribe to get Piggy’s stolen glasses back and all Ralph does is say “If you would of asked I would of let u use the glasses for fire” (181 Hemingway) demonstrate all he really wants is peace and to go home. Ralph becomes very angry at Jack when he takes the hunters hunting and the fire goes out, they may of caught a pig but they did something awful and let the fire die. The Id allows you to start doing primitive things, but Ralph has his ego that helps hold back the evil thoughts and actions. When all the hunters go hunting Ralph stays back for the fire and hasn’t gone over to the dark side. Ralph’s ego keeps him acting humane until the end, even when the rules die away and he is the only on left.
Piggy is the uptight parent figure that is good at heart and will always stay good. His superego helps to control the boys for a while. He tries to keep the island governed and he acts like there are parents on the island but in the end it turns out t be a tragedy for him. Piggy said “I got the conch, let me speak” (82 Hemingway) meaning that he is acting adult like. Piggy is always trying to act like an adult because he is different then the other boys by his glasses and his physical appearance that why he tries to act older and is more mature, “when you’re done laughing perhaps then we can get on with the meeting.” Piggy also yells at the littuns. During the second meeting piggy yells at the littuns to stop falling of the twisted log and to sit on the ground a then they wouldn’t fall off. Piggy also despises Jack, “If Jack was chief he’d have us all hunting an no food! We’d be here till we died” (93 Hemingway). Piggy was the person that helped to keep a few things still civilized but when he and the conch died it was then breaking point.
By the end of this novel Jack, Roger and most of the other boys except had turned bad and were mainly controlled by their ID. The Littuns, Piggy, Simon, and Ralph were the few buys that had the inner good and even in awful times they still had what it takes to stay above the line and not to fall below it. These boys were born evil and had to be good because of rules set in place since they were born but when there weren’t any rules you really understood what little heart they really had, they were ruthless scavengers.
