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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis thesis entitled Dr. H. Jekyll?s Conflicts that Leads into his Destruction is
based on Robert Louis Stevenson?s novel, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Stevenson talks
about the hypocrisy of the Victorian gentleman through his male character, Dr. Jkeyll,
who in his later life gets his own conflict with his dual nature, I decide to take this
problem as the topic of my thesis. In the first place, Dr. Jekyll enjoys his respectable
position as a rich and famous scientist. Yet later he faces inner conflict as he realizes
that he has dual nature. I, the thesis writer, realize that he has the dual nature, the
good and the evil spirit within himself. I have three questions regarding Dr. Jekyll?s
struggles toward it. First, what are the conflicts of Dr. Jekyll before he takes the
potion? Second, what are Dr. Jekyll?s conflicts after he takes the potion? Third, what
are the final results of Dr. Jekyll?s conflicts? So, the scope of the discussion is the
conflicts of good versus evil spirits. And the limitation of the discussion is on the
main male character of the novel, namely Dr. Jekyll. In order to find out the answer
of the questions above, I use the literary theory, namely; the theory of conflict to find
out the character traits of Dr. Jekyll and the psychoanalytic concept to help me in
understanding the mental condition of Dr. Jekyll. The analysis result in: first, Dr.
Jekyll?s inner conflicts is caused by his discontentment towards the society regarding
the hypocrisy of the Victorian gentleman; Dr. Jekyll also gets outer conflicts toward
Dr. Lanyon regarding his different views of their philosophy in science; second, the
evil spirit in the form of Mr. Hyde grows stronger and tries to overcome Dr. Jekyll?s
life while the good spirit in the form of Dr. Jekyll is decreasing its power. Here, Dr.
Jekyll gets his outer and inner conflicts since his relationship with Mr. Hyde threat
Dr. Jekyll?s life; finally, as the result of Dr. Jekyll?s conflicts, he prefers to end his
life in order to terminate the actions of Mr. Hyde. During the process of his conflicts,
the id, the superego, and the ego influence each other. Before taking the potion, the
superego of Dr. Jekyll is more dominant than the other two; while after he takes the
potion, the id, and later the id wins the battle.