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The Three Little Pigs

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“The Three Little Pigs” by Joseph Jacobs demonstrates the usage of Psychoanalytic theory. In the text, the wolf was the Id wanting to blow down the pig’s houses and eat them. The third pig was the Superego because he was the only pig to stand up against the wolf, just like the Superego character would against an Id character. From the text in the story, we can find evidence to support the ideology that disease is a present theme in the story. The wolf and the three pigs represent in an example is the human body infected with a virus. The Wolf is like a virus, aggressive, just like an Id character would be. The first two pigs are failed attempts to “cure.” The final pig is representative of a cure, fighting back against this virus, the Superego fighting back against the Id. With these similarities in place, we can see that a noticeable theme within this text is that of disease. …show more content…

But the story “The Three Little Pigs” brings to life a comparison between itself and this ideal of this cycle. Throughout the duration of the story, the wolf attempts to kill all three of the pigs. This is like an Id trying to take over their ego or a virus trying to kill its host. The first two pigs were the ones who had been infected by the virus and failed in trying to fight it off as seen when the text stated “[the Wolf] ate up the little pig” (Jacobs 1). Another example of these pigs falling to the virus was shown by the faulty material (medicine) given to them by the men who had the

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