Dr Lanyon Flashcards
” I have had a shock,” he said, “ and I shall never recover. It is a question of weeks. We’ll m,life has been pleasant; I liked it; yes, sir, I used to like it”
Chapter 6, Mr utterson meets with lanyon for dinner and he looks significantly worse, utterson is convinced he will die soon. He has seen something that has changed his perspective and weakened his will to live. Links to the major theme of the human desire for mastery comes with a price.
“I wish to see or hear no more of Dr Jekyll,”he said in a loud unsteady voice. “ I am quite dine with that person; and i beg that you will spare me any allusion to one whom i regard as dead”
Chapter 6, Lanyons voice is uncontrolled showing how shaken he is, the audience is shocked as lanyon goes from friendly to agitated and leaves an ominous effect.
” I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard, and my sound sickened at it; and yet now when that sight has faded from my eyes I ask myself if I believe it”
Chapter 9, Dr lanyon would like to repress the supernatural event he witnessed. As a victorian scientist he cannot reconcile what he has understood with his rational mind with his sense of morality. Regards Jekyll as dead.
“O God! I screamed, and “O God!” Again and again; for there before my eyes-pale and shaken, and half fainting m and groping him with his hands, like a man restored from death- there’s stood Henry Jekyll!”
Chapter 9, serve as the climax of the story. We see Jekyll transformation into Hyde is like a man coming back to life, suggesting each time he transforms his other side truly dies.
