How far do you agree that The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are explorations of the duality of human nature?

The novels
The Picture of Dorian Gray and most certainly explore
the duality of human nature. The key characters of each novel share a common problem: a conflict
between the person that they are (or wish to be) versus the persona that they portray themselves
to be in front of others. In the end, both Gray and Jekyll will suffer from their duality. This
shows that, while it is natural for people to engage in some form of duplicity, and human
personality is a complex thing, we all need to find a moral and personal balance that will help
us discover who we really are.

In The Picture of Dorian Gray,
young Dorian meets the very influential Lord Henry. The latter encourages Dorian to
engage in a New Hedonism, or a pleasure-seeking lifestyle that abuses self-indulgence in the
discovery of sensations. In the prudish and sanctimonious Victorian society of Dorians time,
which is the same society of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,
such...