Good Vs. Evil In Dr. Jekyll And Mr.

Good vs. Evil: In Plain Sight

A theory by Sigmund Freud explains how the unconscious mind can be evil because of the id- a part of the brain that is extremely selfish and does everything to benefit itself. It is accompanied by the superego, which is civil and respectful, and the ego, which attempts to please both the id and the superego.A lot of people easily give into the id and do things mostly to benefit themselves. These people seem very selfish, or evil. In Lord of the Flies, Macbeth and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the authors use foreshadowing, imagery, and symbolism to show how people are easily tempted by evil.

In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the author Robert Louis Stevenson uses foreshadowing to show the slow turn to darkness that Dr Jekyll is tempted into. The book is a mystery novel, one the first of it’s kind. In the book, Dr. Jekyll tries to separate his evil side from himself and creates a potion that can turn him into his terrible evil

In the book, a group of young british schoolboys are stranded on an island without any adult supervision. While they start out relatively normal, a boy named Jack turns to evil as a way of getting what he wants from the others. The majority of the boys follow his lead. A number of symbols are used to display the change to savagery. For example, the glasses of a character named Piggy symbolize civilization. Over the course of the book, the glasses become more and more destroyed. It implies that the boys are becoming more evil. One of the first instances where the boys ares shown as “savage” is after they first kill a pig for meat. They begin chanting “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.” (Golding, 58) and later on, "Kill the beast! Cut its throat! Spill its blood!” (Golding,135) At least two people die because of the turn to