Lord of the Flies
The Id, the Ego and the Super Ego of The Lord of the Flies In The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, the theme is an attempt to trace defects of society back to the defects of human nature. ... The title "Lord of the Flies" is referring to a symbol of the devil. This devil, the "lord of the flies" is not a symbol in a traditional religious sense, but in a sense that the "lord of the flies" is devoted to bad things that are the problems for the children in the book, like decay, destruction, demoralization, hysteria and panic.