Perhaps one of the underlying messages in the original meaning of these scenes is the tension in this dual nature. Alignment of interests ebbs and flows and at times they cannot be resolve. In my https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/the-human-spirit-duality-e456c0729e99 I wrote:

"My highest power has pointed out to me that there would be times when the needs of my soul and the needs of my human/animus would conflict.

There are human wants and soul wants. A life will be harmonious when those two are aligned. Life’s purpose is to learn and one aspect is learning how to satisfy the human wants while not offending the soul’s spirituality.

Recently I had this realization about the human-soul duality — the goals of the human and the goals of the soul may be, from the human perspective, irreconcilable. Humans want nothing but happiness but perhaps the soul came here to experience the opposite so that it can learn to guide other humans when it is not incarnated and is assigned as a spirit guide or to some other work in heaven."

Edit: My thought seems on point with your concluding paragraph that I just now reached. 😊