The intentions of Dr. Jekyll to be pure evil was his own idea. This gives us the sense that Hyde is not the one who is truly evil but Dr. Jekyll is! Being Hyde amused him and since he had full control of Hyde, he could have done good deeds instead of evil. Even though Hyde was evil, Dr. Jekyll could have controlled him, but inspite the consequences, Jekyll went on taking the potions for evil purposes.
In pursuing his scientific experiments and validating his work, Jekyll claims, "man is not truly one, but truly two." Thus, in Jekyll's view, every soul contains elements of both good and evil, but one is always dominant. In Jekyll's case, his good side is dominant, but he knows there is evil inside of him. However, as a respectable member of society and an honorable Victorian gentleman, Jekyll cannot fulfill his evil desires. Thus, he works to develop a way to separate the two parts of his soul and free his evil characteristics.
Here we could say that he becomes an ‘unhappy victim’ of his own crime, as he is heading toward his ultimate downfall. ‘ One of the key themes of this story, good versus evil, is represented through the existence of Hyde, Jekyll himself, only having transformed his body into something deformed. ‘left an imprint of deformity’ The name ‘Hyde’ itself is a metaphor for this struggle to disguise and remain unseen. However, Hyde is not a monster. He is rather a brutish dwarf, with an inferior social status and younger thank Jekyll – this itself it a great advantage as he can he get away with his actions.
The excessive control demonstrated by the boys undoubtedly supports the idea that humans are innately evil, and it is also shown in many other ways such as how the boys mistreat each other. The Lord of the Flies proves the point that mankind is evil through the way that the boys mistreat each other. For starters, mistreatment is shown in the very beginning of the book when Jack says to Piggy, “Shut up, fatty!” (Golding 17). Jack is insulting Piggy while many of the boys mistreat and insult each other. Also another example of how mistreatment is shown in the book would be when Samneric betray Ralph.
Take Home Essay I agree that man is good until negative external forces of society make man evil because it is human nature to respond and change according to our environment and the harsh reality is that evil exists. The counter argument is that man is born evil, and that good has to be learned. For example, children in the infant or toddler stages tend to be more stingy, greedy, selfish, or rebellious. Nobody teaches them things and these things can’t be corrected until they are taught otherwise. In the assertion ‘all people are good, but it’s the external forces of society that make a man evil’ I immediately think of the ‘Ballad of Joe Meek’.
The narrator describes Claggart by stating, “his complexion…though it was not exactly displeasing, nevertheless seemed to hint something defective or abnormal in the constitution and blood” (qtd. in Smith). Smith helps explain that it’s not hard to tell that Claggart is evil because his appearance signals the other characters and reader about his evil nature. Typically, people relate outward appearance to inward characteristics, motives, and values, such as in Claggart’s case. Claggart’s evil-minded nature with “something defective or abnormal in the constitution and blood,” has always been present to destroy the plan of
Although his actions are very insane, they can be seen as rational to reader considering hedonism. Devotion to pleasure, hedonism, makes Dorian be deceitful about his true self by deflecting the attention of the public from the mad man to the beautiful and intelligent gentlemen. Dorian is, young, sensitive, and emotional, meaning that he is susceptible to manipulation. Lord Henry takes advantage of that opportunity and gives Dorian the yellow book; this book opens up the world of hedonism and aestheticism which eventually turns his young life into an eternal oblivion of misery. Dorian develops a fear of aging so he tries to live his life as if it was his last day on earth.
In the beginning he is hired by a sexton who believes he could be easily scared by the sight of a ghost and decides to pretend being one, however the young man, even though he is dim witted, has some common sense and believes the would be ghost is likely a criminal, and thus solves his issue by pushing the sexton down the stairs. If the Grimm brothers wanted to punish the sexton for trying to trick a young man then the punishment is far beyond the reasonable measures, however it seems apparent that the man's disgrace is only for comedic effect, since the young man's father considers his son unworthy upon hearing of his unintelligent solution to a simple problem,
If Hamlet were to have seen his father’s ghost by himself, there would be a greater argument for him being insane from the outset of the play. Hamlet also exerts control over his actions, which is the main reason why it could be argued that he is sane. He actively tries to convince Polonius that he has gone mad - mocking him when he would usually be respectful, acting cruelly towards Ophelia whom he was clearly affectionate to earlier in the play. He does this in the hope that Polonius will tell the court of his madness. Hamlet is often hesitant to do things, for example where he had the chance to kill Claudius in the chapel but couldn’t bring himself to do it, not because he would be killing another human but because he wanted Claudius to suffer and not go straight to Heaven.
Hyde is a representative from the figure of Satan, the evil, the personification of a Jekyll with the body lean and also ugly face. By a potion which made by him, Jekyll can be transformed into a figure of Hyde and then back again into the figure of Jekyll. He was doing so because he wanted to separate the good and bad traits that exist within him. He did not want to have two characteristics of that, then creating the figure of Hyde who became the representative of the nature of evil. By being Hyde, he can letting out his desire and it kind of his pleasure.