Lord Of The Flies Piggy Analysis

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a novel in which a group of british boys, have crash landed on a deserted island. The novel shows the struggle of leadership, and the impulses that children have to deal with. A fat boy named Piggy, is excluded from most of the activity’s because he is different. The role of Piggy represents the superego of human nature, he acts like the a parent figure of the group.

Piggy has asthma which in his mind limits him from many physical activity’s, this causes him to be more methodical, represent the superego of the group. Piggy says, “I expect we’ll want to know all their names, ”said the fat boy, “and make a list. We ought to have a meeting.” The idea of making a list of names and having meetings is a very impulsive and grown up way to approach situation that they are

in. The process of making list is so that they may collect their thoughts and not lose track of any people. Piggy also follows the rule of only talking with the conch, “The whole assembly applauded him with relief. Then Piggy held out his hand.” By doing this, Piggy is showing restraint, he is able to control when he says things unlike the other boys who blurt out whenever they have an idea. Furthermore Piggy also tries to get the other boys to show the restraint that he has by demanding they talk only with the conch. Piggy’s overall restraint and methodical ways of thinking shows that he represents the superego.
Piggy acts like the adult or parent figure to the group of boys.

In the beginning of the book Ralph sets up Piggy to be the parent like figure to the littluns, “Now go back, Piggy, and take names. That’s your job. So long.” This is because Piggy is unable to participate in the childish shenanigans that the other biguns participate in. Piggy acts like parent to the littluns because he wants them to survive and make it home. Piggy is also killed because he is different from the others. When the members of Jack's tribe kill Piggy it is basically an extreme version of kids rebelling against their parents. However instead of running away, or talking back they took it to an extreme and killed Piggy. Piggy was like a the parent to the group, but he was also killed for being this parental figure.
The character Piggy was different from the rest of the group in many ways. He had Asthma, he was fat, and he did not rush into things. He was a methodical thinker and he was more suited to be the leader more than anyone else, he was also kind and he believed that everybody should be rescued. Piggy was a super ego of the island, but more than that he was a parent to the

group.