THE AMBITION OF JACK’S CHARACTER IN THE NOVEL “LORD OF THE FLIES” BY WILLIAM GOLDING

Rasdiana (F21116038). The Ambition of Jack’s Character in The Novel “Lord of The Flies” by William Golding. (Supervised by Abidin Pammu and Sitti Sahraeny)
This research is a literary study that aims to explain why Jack’s character in the novel Lord of the Flies is so ambitious and how that ambition makes a bad impact on other characters.
To achieve the above objectives, the writer used the structuralism approach to analyze the intrinsic elements in the novel and used the psychoanalysis theory to analyze the character's ambition. The data were then collected and explained using qualitative methods.
The results of this study indicate that Jack's character is so ambitious because he always follows his ego to act, and the writer also finds five characters who get bad impact because of Jack's ambition.

Keywords: Ambition, Psychoanalysis, Ego, Lord of the Flies