Lord of the Flies Sigmund Freud came up with the idea that human conscience can be broken down into three parts: the id, the ego, and the superego. Everybody has all three parts, if some are more prominent than others. The id is the part of the psyche that is unconscious and the source of primitive instinctive impulses and drives. The ego contains consciousness and memory and is involved with control, planning, and conforming to …
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…and Ralph. They alone possessed a superego strong enough to resist the vigorous pull to let the id take over. The rest of the boys on the island succumbed to the mesmeric pull towards savagery, and in the end even tried to kill Ralph. Ultimately, the only way to resist letting the id take you over in such emotionally charged circumstances such as the one these boys faced, is to have a powerful enough superego.