Freud’s life instinct can show in Ralph’s character. There is no one that nothing feels worry when they are stranded on an island that is uninhabited. Especially, if it was happen on a boy who cannot yet be regarded as an adult person. But it does not happen to Ralph. For the first time when Ralph arrived in the island, he does not feel fear. For example, he makes a plan look for another friend who might still be alive. Ralph went to find the other toward the forest and back to the edge of the beach in the hope of finding his other friends. Suddenly, there is a child who called her from a distance behind him that is a fat boy that can call as Piggy. From that effort, happily, Ralph …show more content…
meets another kid. This is the result of his belief which is when he follows his life instinct that there must be some who are still alive. Then, Ralph plans everything for the next day in the island until there is anyone who comes to save him. Ralph never feels worry of anything or negative thinking about no one can find him in the island. It relates to the theory of Psychoanalysis about id which is Eros or life instinct. This action shows about the life instinct that feels by someone and lead him to do or think something positive.
After he meets Piggy, they share about that airplane accident.
In usually, everyone after the accident experience will discuss about how that happened and whether there are still others who survived. When Ralph asks to Piggy there is other peoples who alive, but he says to Ralph that everyone was dead. The fat boy is really scares about that. As a young child, he feels scare to survive and think that it may nobody know and rescue them there. According to the theory of Freud's Psychoanalysis, the feeling of fear which express by the fat boy is one of id parts namely Thanatos or death instinct. It feels by someone that arises in his predicament. But Ralph says very sure to him that his father was a soldier and his father will be looking for him soon. Ralph as someone who his life instinct is very dominant at that point, so that makes him always sure everything will be fine. However, Piggy tries to persuade Ralph that everybody was dead. It can be seen from the
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