Examples Of Nurture In Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

Society dictates the behavior of the creature and how individuals react to that society. Within both Victor and the creature, another situation would abide how nature and nurture is in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel “Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde”. In the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, there are many instances of foul play. Now the question is, where do these acts cause a born child to become evil? They may be evil but not because of man. In many instances in the book, the characters use the term “creature” a lot and not man. For instance after first meeting Mr. Hyde, Mr Utterson says, “God bless me, the man seems hardly human!” (Stevenson 40). This isn't the only instance of this though, many times in the story, Hyde is addressed as a “creature”

Before the operation, he exhibited some clear strengths such as determination, a positive attitude, friendly with people and some weaknesses such as education and inability to understand the adult world. After the operation, he begun to change in numerous ways. Charlie started out as being not really intelligent. Being around with “smart” people made him want to change and became “intelligent” just like his “friends.” I think its all crazy. If you can get smart when your sleeping why do people go to school. That thing I don't think will work. I use to watch the late show and the late late show on TV all the time and it never made me smart (Keyes 118). This part of the book led Charlie’s flashbacks takes place of how he was raised or nurtured through his childhood, Of how he wanted to try to become smart. However Dr. Strauss believes that his sleep would help Charlie be able to learn. However in his nature, his disability cannot help him at all, doesn’t matter how much he tries to watch TV and tries to go to sleep, I wouldn’t allow him to learn anything at all. The nurture of this is having the doctor recommend Charlie to do this. His disability also not just affects him but his family as well. His disability kind of makes his sister miserable as well, jealous over how the parents focus on Charlie due to his disability, despite the successes the sister achieves in school. Thus Charlie’s nature towards others has a negative effect which is towards his sister. Charlie was raised by his parents but through a condition that would then follow him probably for the rest of his life as well as being mainly raised through this experiment, which possibly wouldn’t help him at all in the near