Lord of the Flies “Where the Id was, there the Ego will be” -Sigmund Freud. Once you realize that you can't have everything in life the way your identity wants you to, you create your ego. So where the ID was, that's where the Ego will eventually form to balance your ID. Freud believed that everyone is born with an identity, and that the ego and superego develop later in life. Throughout the novel, a Freudian psychological allegory is expressed, relating to the mind and the way a person thinks. This is where the id, ego and superego integrate. 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 acting on impulse, the Ego balancing what the Id wants and what the real world allows to have and the Superego, judging what is right and wrong, presenting itself as our virtu. Lord of the fly is a novel based on British boys who find themselves on an abandoned island after their plane crashes into the sea. Realizing that they have no one of authority with them and that all they have, it's each other, they devise and strategize to govern themselves in hopes of being saved. Violence, savagery, and loss of civilization manifest as 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 depict 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 display 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 concern for anything or anyone other than himself. While he was on the island, he always managed... middle of paper... The superego, always imposed rules on the boys acting as an authority on the island. Finally, Ralph is referred to as the ego of the novel. The ego is the mediator of our mind. In Lord of the Flies Ralph, the ego does not focus on its impulses nor constantly on responsibility, but balances between the two. As Golding expressed a psychological allegory through his novel, this allegory is still applied to today's world. Everyone's personality is shaped by Freud's theory of the id, ego and superego. Without these three dimensions of the mind our personality could not be created, we as people are shaped by this Freudian theory which was expressed by the characters creating an allegory through Lord of the Flies. The Id, Superego and Ego are essential. If the Id is present, then the Ego will always be there too, and the Superego will always be there to balance them..