Lord Of The Flies Identity Analysis
“Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood” (Golding Lord 69) as the group of huntsmen chants when the pig dies. William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies is about an airplane crash onto an island where the boys have to find a way to get off the adult free island. While being unsupervised, all the boys on the island met up. Ralph is voted to be the leader and Jack and the choir boys became hunters. The hunters’ leader, Jack, starts to have fun on the island. The transformation of Jack from desperate leader to full-time savage hunter highlights his adoption to nature, which ultimately proves that environmental factors can affect one’s being.
Through the wanting desires of Jack, Golding demonstrates how satisfying desires can make a character …show more content…
change through what is given in the environment. When Ralph, Jack, and Simon returns back to camp after exploring parts of the island, Jack encounters a pig. Unfortunately, he did not kill the pig when he was holding a knife. As the pig broke off, the boys behind laughed at him and Jack says: “I was choosing a place. I was just waiting for a moment to decide where to stab him” (Golding Lord 31). The wanting desires of food make the boys explore the island for a source of food. Jack’s first encountering and humiliation make Jack eager to start killing pigs around the island for meat. Until he kills a pig, his desires may increase or decrease until his is completely satisfied. In addition to satisfying desires, the id plays a role to be completely satisfied. To put the characters in an id, ego, and superego situation, Jack is considered as the “id,” Ralph as the “ego,” and Piggy as the “superego.” Jack is an id because he is impulsive to kill a pig. In the article “Id, Ego and Superego,” Saul McLeod states: “the id demands immediate satisfaction and when this happens we experience pleasure when it is denied we experience ‘unpleasure’ or pain” (McLeod Id 18). The environmental factor that makes Jack eager to kill a pig is when he encounters one. Since he was made fun off, he is determined to kill one and other pigs on the island to provide the group meat. Without his determination, the boys would be probably be eating fruit in their survival.
Through the desperate, savage hunter of Jack, Golding demonstrates the loss of identity when a new character possesses a new identity.Around the world, masks have multiple meanings.
For example, masks can be used for rituals to celebrate for a certain occasion. In “Sunglasses Makes You Less Generous,” Alice Robb states: “Around the world, people don masks for rituals and ceremonies requiring them to let loose—from the violent masked clowns of the Mexican Yaqui Pasida to the revelers at Carnival celebrations across Europe” (Robb Sunglasses 17). Masks are not always used for rituals, it can also be used to play as a character. When used in rituals, they can play as a character being represented by a human. The player of the character has to know how the character behavior and feelings. In addition, masks can have multiple meanings when being analyzed. As Jack becomes a desperate pig hunter, he goes off and hunts. He and his hunters’ responsibility was to watch the fire, Being prepared to hunt for a pig, “He made one cheek and one eye-socket white, then he rubbed red over to the other half of his face and slashed a black bar of charcoal across from right ear to left jaw” (Golding Lord 63). As Jack makes his mask, he creates a character for himself. His ask masks can foreshadow what could possibly happen next. He could catch a pig and make his hunting a ritual or not catch a pig and wastes his time making the mask. Jack possessed the character as the hunter behind the mask to
make his hunt successful.
The transformation of Jack from an innocent young choir boy to the killer of pigs highlights his behavior with the environment which ultimately proves his change in adaptation to an island with no parents. Because of his desires, he wants to be satisfied because he saw something that he wants to do and to do it. After satisfying his desires, they can grow to more or be completely satisfied. To reach his satisfaction, he creates masks to make himself a hunter with no fear behind the mask. If Jack did not encounter a pig, he would still be scavenger to find food nearby because even though he is a hunter, hunters are responsible for finding food.
Through the wanting desires of Jack, Golding demonstrates how satisfying desires can make a character …show more content…
change through what is given in the environment. When Ralph, Jack, and Simon returns back to camp after exploring parts of the island, Jack encounters a pig. Unfortunately, he did not kill the pig when he was holding a knife. As the pig broke off, the boys behind laughed at him and Jack says: “I was choosing a place. I was just waiting for a moment to decide where to stab him” (Golding Lord 31). The wanting desires of food make the boys explore the island for a source of food. Jack’s first encountering and humiliation make Jack eager to start killing pigs around the island for meat. Until he kills a pig, his desires may increase or decrease until his is completely satisfied. In addition to satisfying desires, the id plays a role to be completely satisfied. To put the characters in an id, ego, and superego situation, Jack is considered as the “id,” Ralph as the “ego,” and Piggy as the “superego.” Jack is an id because he is impulsive to kill a pig. In the article “Id, Ego and Superego,” Saul McLeod states: “the id demands immediate satisfaction and when this happens we experience pleasure when it is denied we experience ‘unpleasure’ or pain” (McLeod Id 18). The environmental factor that makes Jack eager to kill a pig is when he encounters one. Since he was made fun off, he is determined to kill one and other pigs on the island to provide the group meat. Without his determination, the boys would be probably be eating fruit in their survival.
Through the desperate, savage hunter of Jack, Golding demonstrates the loss of identity when a new character possesses a new identity.Around the world, masks have multiple meanings.
For example, masks can be used for rituals to celebrate for a certain occasion. In “Sunglasses Makes You Less Generous,” Alice Robb states: “Around the world, people don masks for rituals and ceremonies requiring them to let loose—from the violent masked clowns of the Mexican Yaqui Pasida to the revelers at Carnival celebrations across Europe” (Robb Sunglasses 17). Masks are not always used for rituals, it can also be used to play as a character. When used in rituals, they can play as a character being represented by a human. The player of the character has to know how the character behavior and feelings. In addition, masks can have multiple meanings when being analyzed. As Jack becomes a desperate pig hunter, he goes off and hunts. He and his hunters’ responsibility was to watch the fire, Being prepared to hunt for a pig, “He made one cheek and one eye-socket white, then he rubbed red over to the other half of his face and slashed a black bar of charcoal across from right ear to left jaw” (Golding Lord 63). As Jack makes his mask, he creates a character for himself. His ask masks can foreshadow what could possibly happen next. He could catch a pig and make his hunting a ritual or not catch a pig and wastes his time making the mask. Jack possessed the character as the hunter behind the mask to
make his hunt successful.
The transformation of Jack from an innocent young choir boy to the killer of pigs highlights his behavior with the environment which ultimately proves his change in adaptation to an island with no parents. Because of his desires, he wants to be satisfied because he saw something that he wants to do and to do it. After satisfying his desires, they can grow to more or be completely satisfied. To reach his satisfaction, he creates masks to make himself a hunter with no fear behind the mask. If Jack did not encounter a pig, he would still be scavenger to find food nearby because even though he is a hunter, hunters are responsible for finding food.