The allegory in The Lord of The Flies, suggests that through the eyes of William Golding the world is a power chain; naturally savage people are attempting to gain control and power by preying upon the weak until they too become corrupt.
The personalities of the world can be divided into 3 different personalities called the id, the ego, and the superego: “Freud's personality theory (1923) saw the psyche structured into three parts (i.e., tripartite), the id, ego, and superego.” The id is the personality of the primal instinct of where the selfish desires and savagery of humanity appears. The ego is the scale of the real world and the true desires that may be unreachable; the decision maker. The superego is the angel on your shoulder to warn you before you do something wrong and to put you in place after to do something wrong. William Golding thought that the world mainly gave into they had an id personality. If you have read the book written by William Golding, Lord of The Flies, then you should know that there were children were put on an island who initially just wanted to go home but eventually one by one started to fall into the id personality and become corrupt in the idea of being in total control or being close to being in total control, the primal desire.
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William Golding fought in WWII; being surrounded by people who want to destroy another is rather disturbing and can leave a person disturbed. But Golding was still in a well enough shape to write a book following the war. A quick rundown of the story would be rather simple. A group of boys were stranded on an island without any adults and immediately had to boys “run” for authority over all the boys. Ralph wins and takes rule over the boys. They start off following rules and the plan for rescue but eventually they start slacking off and turn towards savagery instead of civility.
William Golding feels that authority and power are important for the human race. For one to have authority over others results in abuse of that power. They do what they want when they want to because they have this power. As Ralph in William Golding's book, The Lord of The Flies. this results in people either fighting to overtake that person or to get close enough to that person that they are above others who aren’t as close to them. This is where the power chain comes into place.
In the words of William Golding: “Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.” Think even bigger. Honey is produced by bees on instinct. Wouldn’t that mean that evil is produced by humans on instinct? So being evil is an instinctive action rather than being a learned action or impulsive. With that being said, one could think that William Golding thought that humans are naturally savage. One could also say that Golding thinks the world has lost all innocence based of this quote: 'Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy'.
To conclude this story, William Golding feels that the world is filled with savage people clawing their way to the top of the power chain labeled “authority” and will break down those who aren’t following that path until they too join the journey.
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