Dr.Lanyon
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- Created on: 07-05-17 10:38
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- Dr.Lanyon
- A reputable London doctor
- Formerly one of Jekyll's closest friends
- When Jekyll became obsessed with the darker aspects of science, Lanyon broke off their friendship: 'Jekyll became too fanciful for me'
- Thinks Jekyll's work is 'unscientific balderdash'
- The quarrel with Lanyon was 'incurable'
- They were 'inseparable friends'
- Believes Jekyll is suffering from a 'cerebral disease'
- Regards Jekyll as 'dead'
- When Jekyll became obsessed with the darker aspects of science, Lanyon broke off their friendship: 'Jekyll became too fanciful for me'
- An embodiment of rationalism, materialism and skeptisism
- Opposite to Jekyll, who embraces mysticism (believe in spirits)
- His death represents the more general victory of supernaturalism over materialism
- Upper class genteman
- 'hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman'
- Appears friendly and sociable: 'sprang from his chair and welcomed him with both hands'
- Witnesses the transformation of Jekyll to Hyde, saying 'he's gone too far'
- Unable to ignore this supernatural occurance and dies
- Leaves the reader with an impression of just how horrifying the change is
- The 'greed of curiosity' forces Lanyon to stay and witness the transformation
- Curiosity has made Jekyll perform this experiment
- Is it Lanyon so the reader believes more that man is commingled between good and evil?
- 'my mind submerged in terror'
- 'O God'
- 'my life is shaken to it's roots'
- Haunted by what he's seen,because it challenges him as a traditionalist, and the norms and the decorum of Victorian society
- Unable to ignore this supernatural occurance and dies
- How does Lanyon change?
- 'the doctor was confined to the house', similarly to Jekyll
- 'his flesh had fallen away'
- 'he had his death warrant written legibly upon his face'
- When Utterson sees him he is 'shocked at the change which had taken place'
- 'some deep-seated terror of the mind'
- 'visibly balder and older'
- 'the rosy man had grown pale'
- Argues that death is a better prospect than knowing that man is two
- 'i sometimes think that if we all knew', 'we should be more glad to get away'
- Prefers to die than live in a world that has ruined his ideas and beliefs
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