Dr Lanyon

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  • Created on: 28-07-16 16:16

Personality

Role

  • He was decsribe as a "hearty , healthy , dapper, red-faced gentleman"
  • He is faithful "i felt bound to do as he requested"
  • Friendly "welcomed him with both hands"
  • Conventional "Jekyll became too fanciful for me "
  • When Utterson goes to see him he "sprang up from his chair and welcomed him with both hands - this makes him seem larger than life
  • His friendliness seems theatrical which suggests that he's putting on a front , but it has "Genuine feeling" behind it
  • Upper class gentleman
  • He is a rational scientist
  • He finds Jekyll's letter asking for Lanyon to retrieve his drugs ( this is strange) - as a man of reason Lanyon concludes that Jekyll is suffering from "Cerebral disease"
  • Lanyon's shock is shown by the breakdown of his language , he continually screams "O God!" as he watches Hyde transforms into Jekyll

Development (Growth & change)

Other information              

  • As a result of their professions - Jekyll and Lanyon are not as close as they used to be - They used to be "inseparable friends"
  • Lanyon can't cope with Jekyll's supernatural secret
  • Lanyon regards Jekylls science as "Unscientific balderdash"
  • Jekyll believes that Lanyon is an "ignorant blatant pendant"

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ibbyhim03

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haven't "zoomed in" to lanyons opinion on jekylls work