Lord Of The Flies From A Psychology

Viewpoint Essay, Research Paper

In the book, .Lord of the Flies. by William

Golding, there were many things that happened that relate well to what

we have been doing in Psychology 181. There were several times when I found

myself relating what we learned in class to the situation that the group

of boys in the book found themselves in. The knowledge that I have learned

has helped me understand and try to figure out why some of the characters

acted the way they did. I found the whole thing very interesting.

In this report I will demonstrate what

I have found to be some of the most interesting points of psychology that

were incorporated in .Lord of the Flies.. This will prove to be a difficult,

but inspiring task. The first thing I noticed was we stereotype people

as soon as we meet them. Another, interesting psychological finding that

was in the book was that the boys had to fill the basic need. This relates

to Maslow.s hierarchy of human needs. Finally, in doing this report I get

to incorporate another interesting point of psychology. That is that I

am doing a report from secondary source in perspective of the boys on the

island. That is with the assumption that the book is a true story that

happened to this group of kids.

Stereotyping played a big part in the book.

From the first setting, well the first page, there was stereotyping going

on. This played a big part in the book as it does in our everyday lives.

The story line of the book is that there is a plane full of young boys

flying over an ocean. When the plane goes down hitting an island and some

of the boys make it, none of the adults do.

This leaves the boy on an island to survive

while they wait to be rescued. In the opening act of the book the stereotyping

begins. There is a kid (Ralph) who is walking on the island when he meets

up with another kid (Johnny better known as Piggy). Piggy makes an assumption

about Ralph before they hardly meet. Piggy puts trust in Ralph by telling

him a nickname that he had in school and hated. Piggy did all these things

before he knew Ralph based on a stereotype than he could trust Ralph. Piggy

also told Ralph what to do in order to be the leader of the group. In this

example you have to assume that Piggy was stereotyping Ralph. He did not

know anything about Ralph and yet he told him many personal things.

Another example of stereotyping was when

Ralph meets Jack. Jack was another member of the plane on the island. Jack

was at the first meeting and thought that they should have a leader. He

wanted to be elected, but the group voted and elected Ralph as the leader.

Immediately, Ralph put Jack in charge of a group of boys. He did this by

stereotyping that Jack was a natural leader. He also got to avoid the initial

conflict that might have occurred sooner if Jack had not had power over

something. This is another fine example of stereotyping. Stereotyping helps

us out in our everyday lives. It helps us make generalizations about people

this is not necessarily a good or bad deal. It is good in that it helps

us keep things sorted out in our minds. It also helps us to act in a proper

way around different kinds of people according to social norms. Stereotyping

can also create a negative affecting that; it can create wrong impressions

about people. This can do many things; it can lead to embarrassment by

acting differently around .different. kinds of people; it can lead to unfair

or bias opinions about a certain groups or types of people. Stereotyping

is a big part of everyone.s day-to-day life.

My second psychological reference leads

me to Maslow.s hierarchy of human needs. This comes up because the boys

are on an unfamiliar island and all they have is the clothes on their backs.

This means that on the island, there is nothing to fill any of their need.

For the most part none of the kids even knew each other. This leads me

to the first part of Maslow.s findings. Which is that of the human needs

stated by Maslow. You need to have physiological safety at the top. Every

one of the boys filled this need first. Ralph was looking around checking

things out when Piggy caught up to him. He was looking around to see if

there was anything that would pose a threat to him. He was making sure

that his safety came first.

Then to go on the second group of Maslow.s

hierarchy of human needs. Which are belongingness or love and esteem. This

is what came next in the book after all the boys are all right they began

to look for each other. Piggy was the first example illustrated in .Lord

of the flies.. As soon as he ran into Ralph he asked his name and tried

to become friends with him. Piggy is trying to fit in with Ralph. He wants

to belong. This is true of all the other kids on the island as well. Piggy

and Ralph find a conch in the water on t

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