Dr. Lanyon: He provides the voice of scientific scepticism. A doctor like Jekyll, but
different. Has more traditional ideas. His approach to science fits in with the religious
ideas of time unlike Jekyll’s. Their contrasting characters and ideas cause their
friendship to end. He has a stubborn character and he creates boundaries with Jekyll.
He reflects the level of horror of Jekyll’s transformation by his reaction to it. Him being
shocked as a scientist shows how horrific the imagery is, and makes the reader think
about how someone that doesn’t do science would react. He is a respectable upper
class and is friendly and welcoming towards those he loves and cares about. Although
they are not friends anymore, Lanyon responds to Jekyll’s request from him in the letter,
and after finding out about his experiment, he still cares about Jekyll's reputation. This
shows the amount of loyalty he has and his strong attachment to the idea of reputation.
He writes a letter and leaves it to Utterson, only to be opened if Jekyll dies or
disappears. He does this in order to protect his old friend’s reputation.
Quotes:
“Jekyll became too fanciful for me”
“I wish to see or hear no more of Dr. Jekyll”
“I beg that you will spare me any allusion to one whom I regard as dead”
“He began to go wrong, wrong in the mind”
“Inseparable friends”
“Unscientific Balderdash”
“A hearty, healthy, dapper, red faced gentleman, with a shock of hair prematurely white,
and a boisterous and decided manner”
“The rosy man had grown pale; his flesh had fallen away; he was visibly balder and
older”
“My life is shaken to its roots; sleep has left me; the deadliest terror sits by me at all
hours”
“Lanyon declared himself a doomed man”
“I have had a shock and I shall never recover”
“He had his death warrant written legibly upon his face”
“Upon the reading of this letter, I made sure my colleague was insane”
“I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard, and my soul sickened at it”
“O God I screamed”
“There before my eyes, pale and shaken, and half fainting and groping… like a man
restored from death, there stood Henry Jekyll”
different. Has more traditional ideas. His approach to science fits in with the religious
ideas of time unlike Jekyll’s. Their contrasting characters and ideas cause their
friendship to end. He has a stubborn character and he creates boundaries with Jekyll.
He reflects the level of horror of Jekyll’s transformation by his reaction to it. Him being
shocked as a scientist shows how horrific the imagery is, and makes the reader think
about how someone that doesn’t do science would react. He is a respectable upper
class and is friendly and welcoming towards those he loves and cares about. Although
they are not friends anymore, Lanyon responds to Jekyll’s request from him in the letter,
and after finding out about his experiment, he still cares about Jekyll's reputation. This
shows the amount of loyalty he has and his strong attachment to the idea of reputation.
He writes a letter and leaves it to Utterson, only to be opened if Jekyll dies or
disappears. He does this in order to protect his old friend’s reputation.
Quotes:
“Jekyll became too fanciful for me”
“I wish to see or hear no more of Dr. Jekyll”
“I beg that you will spare me any allusion to one whom I regard as dead”
“He began to go wrong, wrong in the mind”
“Inseparable friends”
“Unscientific Balderdash”
“A hearty, healthy, dapper, red faced gentleman, with a shock of hair prematurely white,
and a boisterous and decided manner”
“The rosy man had grown pale; his flesh had fallen away; he was visibly balder and
older”
“My life is shaken to its roots; sleep has left me; the deadliest terror sits by me at all
hours”
“Lanyon declared himself a doomed man”
“I have had a shock and I shall never recover”
“He had his death warrant written legibly upon his face”
“Upon the reading of this letter, I made sure my colleague was insane”
“I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard, and my soul sickened at it”
“O God I screamed”
“There before my eyes, pale and shaken, and half fainting and groping… like a man
restored from death, there stood Henry Jekyll”
