Throughout all the hardships and trials of human life, they always strive to remain on top. To remain in control. Control gives humans a sense of power, of entitlement and superiority. So can humans truly be the master of their own fate? One may command remarkable self-control, but one's mind has, in a sense, a mind of its own. No matter how expertly emotions and thoughts are repressed and contained, they have to be present in order to be contained. One cannot truly dictate what thoughts may come unbidden to the forefront of their mind. Human control resides in how one acts on uncontrollable thoughts and emotions. As it pertains to Robert Stevenson's novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, human emotions really are a rampant and impulsive fancy. Dr. Jekyll portrays this himself. The outward picture of control and perfection, he hides a beast, Mr. Hyde, within. One's thoughts and emotions are not for them to control. Jekyll is just the same as the rest of humanity, "[he]... hate[s] and fear[s] the thought of the brute that [sleeps] within [him]" (Stevenson 59), and yet that brute is still there for him to hate. No matter how repulsive Jekyll finds Hyde, Hyde is still there. He lingers on the edge of Jekyll's conscience and darkens his thoughts. One cannot simply be rid of a beast within, the triumph comes with its restrainment. Though Jekyll can not restrain his beast, "not that [he] dream[s] of resuscitating Hyde; the bare idea of that would startle [him] to frenzy: no, it [is] in [his] own person, that [he] [is] once more tempted to trifle with [his] conscience; and it [is] as an ordinary sinner that [he] at last fall[s] before the assaults of temptation" (57). The logical, humane part of Jekyll's brain quakes at the thought of Hyde. The more, sinister, deeper, and animalistic part of him "licking the chops of memory" (57) is as untamable as the winter winds. No, man cannot claim dominion over the impulses of the mind. Man can do no more than restrict that untamable beast that prowls the mind and flirts with temptation. The mind is subject to no one, not even itself.