Lord of the Flies“Where the Id was there will be the Ego” -Sigmund Freud. Once you realize that you can't have everything in life the way your Id wants, you create your own Ego. So, where the Id was, is where the Ego will eventually form to balance your Id. Freud believed that we are all born with an Id and that the Ego and Superego develop later in life. Throughout the novel, a Freudian psychological allegory is expressed, relating to one's mind and the way a person thinks. This is where the Id, Ego and Superego fit in. Sigmund Freud believed that the mind was structured into these three different parts. In the novel these structured areas of the mind are personified by the characters. The id acts on impulse, the ego balances what the id wants and what the real world allows it to have, and the superego, which judges what is right and wrong, represents our virtue. Lord of the Flies is a novel based on British boys who end up on an abandoned island after their plane crashes into the sea. Realizing that they have no one in authority with them and that all they have is others, they develop and strategize to govern themselves in hopes of being saved. Violence, savagery and loss of civilization are shown while the boys are stranded on the island with each other. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding creates a Freudian psychological allegory using Freud's theory of the human psyche to portray Jack, Piggy, and Ralph as the Id, Superego, and Ego of the novel. In the novel Lord of the Flies Golding uses imagery and characterization to show Jack as the Id of the novel through his selfishness, violence and strong impulses to do what he wants when he wants. Jack shows no interest in anything or anyone except himself. While on the island he always ran... half paper... Superego, he always enforced the rules of the kids who acted as authorities on the island. Finally Ralph characterized as the Ego of the novel. The ego is the mediator of one's mind, in Lord of the Flies Ralph as the ego does not focus on its impulses or constantly on responsibility but balances between the two. Because Golding expressed a psychological allegory through his novel, this allegory is still applied to the world today. Everyone's personality is modeled on Freud's theory of the Id, the Ego and the Superego. Without these three dimensions of the mind it would not be possible to create a person, we as people are shaped by this Freudian theory which was expressed as the characters creating an allegory through Lord of the Flies. Id, Superego and Ego are essential. If the Id is present, then the Ego will also always be present and the Superego will always be there to balance them.