Dr Lanyon
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- Created on: 17-03-17 17:45
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- Dr Hastie Lanyon
- Character
- faithful
- "I felt bound to do as he requested"
- friendly
- "welcomed him with both hands"
- Him and Mr Utterson were friends for a long time.
- "old mates both at school and college"
- conventional
- "Jekyll became too fanciful for me"
- intelligent
- "if anyone knows, it will be Lanyon"-(Mr Utterson)
- curious
- "has the greed of curiosity too much command for you"-(Hyde"
- Lanyon stays to see Hyde transform because he has "gone too far"
- "has the greed of curiosity too much command for you"-(Hyde"
- faithful
- natural, rational scientist
- Lanyon is a doctor like Jekyll, and used to be "inseparable friends"
- "I cannot remember...any break in our affection"
- Lanyon researches rational science in the material world.
- Dr Jekyll researches mythical science, which Lanyon doesn't agree with.
- "such unscientific balderdash"
- Jekyll regards Lanyon as an "ignorant blatant pendant"
- "we may have differed at times on scientific questions"
- Lanyon is a doctor like Jekyll, and used to be "inseparable friends"
- Upper-class gentleman
- he is polite, like many victorian gentleman
- "he sprang up from his chair and welcomed him with both hands"
- "a hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman"
- suggests he is sociable
- Him and Mr Utterson were respectful.
- "both thorough respecters of themselves and each other"
- he is polite, like many victorian gentleman
- he cannot handle Dr Jekyll's secret
- after Dr Lanyon found out his secret, he was too shocked to recover.
- "he had his death warrant legibly upon his face"
- "Lanyon declared himself a doomed man"
- "I wish to see or hear no more of Dr Jekyll"
- his initial reaction was dominated by fear.
- "O God! I screamed, and "O God!"
- "my soul sickened"
- Lanyon's death was caused by Jekyll's secret
- "in something less than a fortnight he was dead"
- "shaken to his roots"
- after Dr Lanyon found out his secret, he was too shocked to recover.
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