Concepts

• Freudian Interpretation


  Id: driven by instincts and the 'pleasure principle', chaotic

  Ego: organised, realistic, conscious

  Super-ego: conscience, moral, strong sense of right and wrong

  Beyond the super-ego: sees the reality of human nature
• Bildungsroman


  Novel of education/formation

  Ralph goes on a journey of moral and psychological growth
• Nietzche


  If you immerse yourself too much in evil, even if you are fighting it, you can become seduced or broken by it

  Links to the Beast, Jack and his hunters
• Didactic


  Intended to teach in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

  e.g LOTF is a didactic novel
• Deus ex machina


  Unexpected device as a character that suddenly appears to resolve a hopeless situation

  Used pejoratively - implies the ending isn't very convincing

  Links to the naval officer