Assignment about Human Nature and Behaviour

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Introduction
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one of the well-known narratives that highlights
the complexities within the science as well as the duplicity of the nature of human. The
influence of the story is based in the same way on the concept of good and bad. Dr. Jekyll is
an up-market group member who represses his urges for the darker side of life. He developed
a chemical recipe, which transformed him into Mr. Hyde, and Jekyll managed to regulate the
personification of all the evil impulses. This assignment selects the major theme of duality
within the human nature in respect to the query regarding human nature and behaviour.
Discussion
The belief that all men have good and bad is not new, but for thousands of years it has
been a part of most of the major religions. For example, Christianity is based on the belief
that, even though they seek to do well, people will always fall short. On a personal level, it is
not difficult to realize that both sides of our existence can be regulated. That's about what Dr.
Jekyll's doing. The subconscious seeks to hold negative thoughts and impulses away from
them, which are then discarded into the unconscious mind, according to early psychologist
Sigmund Freud. Such emotions, though, are not gone but still affect the conscious mind's
thinking and actions (Stevenson 24).
A real-life case of Jekyll and Hyde produces a split personality in an individual in
Freudian theory. Often it looks like Dr. Jekyll's goodness, but sometimes it comes out like
Mr. Hyde's badness. Of course, transformation is not, in fact, a physical transition, typically
not a total separation of the good and the evil in one person. Variations of good and evil
duality include: person versus animal, and humanity versus wildness (Dyer). Many fiction
works explore this duality based on some kind of inner conflict. In school, you have probably
heard about conflicts that drive fictional plays, one of which is a man against himself.