to keep some type of order. The responses he gets show the groups disinterest in time and order. Piggy says ...We could have a sundial each. Then we should know what time it was. HE gets a response a fat a lot of good that would be. Jack doesnt want time, time is a form of organization and order. Things have a time and a place when they are organized. ( my mother Stacey Farrelly ) Similarly, Piggy's glasses are the only artifact of outside technology on the island. In an almost gothic vein, these glasses are the only source used to produce fire on the island, not only necessary for the boys' rescue, but responsible for their ultimate destruction. Than fire, and likewise Piggy's glasses, become a source of power. Piggy's ideals are those most in conflict with Jack's overwhelming hunger for power and satiation. It is between these representations of chaos and order that Ralph falls. Golding's depiction of Ralph as leader is comparable to Freud's placement of the ego at the center of the psyche. Ralph acts as the island's ego, this means that he is trying to keep order and rules, as he must offset the raw desires of the id, which is controlling the need to hunt, kill, destroy ect. This definition is consistent with Ralph's actions. He patronizes Jack's wish to hunt and their collective needs to be rescued, often turning to Piggy for advice. Initially, in the relative harmony of the island society's early emergence, Ralph is able to balance the opposing id and superego influences in order to forge a purpose: rescue. It is only as the balance evolves that the fate of the island's inhabitants is determined. While the Id of the island, represented by Jack, gets stronger and gains more and more control, Ralph representing the ego is losing power and will eventually give into the pressure of nature. Ralph is continuously looking for a way out which shows he stillAmong Ralph, Piggy and Jack exists a constant struggle to asse...
