When young boys are abandoned on an uninhabited island without adults, even they are capable of murder. This is the scenario depicted in the British author, William Goldings novel, Lord of the Flies, written and published in 1954 during World War 2. Comparing the characters of Jack, Ralph, Piggy and Simon with Freud's theory of id, ego and superego, one can prove that man has an underlying evil nature. The characters are represented with Jack as id, …
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…in the novel Lord of the Flies. Jack, Ralph, Piggy, and Simon each display these aspects of man's evil nature, and also prove that if it can happen to them that it can happen to anyone. Young children are typically thought of as more pure and innocent that those more experienced in the world. If they are capable of such acts, it is sad to think what the rest of the world is capable of.