"Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" and "Lord of the Flies" both deal with mans struggle to control his inner evil. How do the authors's show this struggle?

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“Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” and “Lord of the Flies” both deal with mans struggle to control his inner evil. How do the authors’s show this struggle?

In “the strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde,” Robert Louis Stevenson presents mans struggle to control his inner evil through Jekyll but the evil comes out in Hyde.  Dr Jekyll is a fine upstanding member of the community and Mr Hyde is still Jekyll but he has no conscience and no sense of responsibility and so goes on wild evil rampages, I am going to explore how Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde show their evils.

        Dr Jekyll is a moral and religious man and has a conscience but he is attracted to the violence and freedom of Hyde and for him turning into Hyde is like a drug, he is addicted.  Dr Jekyll is in a constant struggle with Hyde for control “if I am the chief of sinners I am the chief of sufferers also,” which shows the constant torment he is in yet he still drinks the drug.  “Before the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of abject terror and despair, as froze the blood of the two gentleman below,” this shows that Jekyll is scared of turning into Hyde and it also gives a picture of the ferocity of Hyde.  Jekyll becomes weak from Hyde and eventually Hyde takes over completely “Dr Jekyll, looking deadly sick.  He did not rise to meet his visitor, but held out a cold hand and bade him welcome in a changed voice,” this shows that Hyde is slowly trying to kill Jekyll.  Jekyll decided to kill Hyde “Utterson, I swear to god Utterson I am done with him in this world,””I cannot say that I care what becomes of Hyde I am quite done with him,” Utterson says to Jekyll “he meant to murder you,” which shows that Jekyll is good to have got rid of Hyde but Jekyll still takes the potion and Hyde continues his torments and Eventually kills Jekyll.  “God knows I am careless this is my true hour of death and what is to follow concerns another than myself,” that was Jekyll’s final transformation before his death.

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        Edward Hyde is the beast that takes Henry Jekyll over he is a small deformed man “the man seems hardly human troglodytic shall we say,” “I read Satan’s signature upon a face,” “like a monkey,” these all describe Hyde it is like Hyde is a step back in evolution.  Hyde is also very fast “it went so quick,” “with extraordinary quickness,” these both show the speed oh Hyde so we now that he is animal like and very quick, he is also very savage as he has no conscience “for the man trampled calmly over the child’s body and left ...

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