This research focuses on the use of the archetypal literary criticism approach in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies through the lens of Carl Jung’s psychoanalytic theories, specifically his notion of archetypes. Archetypal critics make the assumption that human beings all over the world have basic experiences in common and have developed similar stories and symbols to express these experiences. They argue that archetypes determine the form and function of a literary work, that a text's meaning is shaped by cultural and psychological myth. This study aims to study the archetypal patterns in William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies, hoping to understand its symbolism by analyzing the causes and impulses of the characters’ external / internal / social behavior and thus to clarify the individual text by connecting it to more universal patterns that often go beyond literature itself. These archetypal features not only constitute the intelligibility of the text but also tap into a level of desires and anxieties of humankind.