Chapter 9: Dr Lanyon's Narrative Flashcards
“Lanyon, my life, my honour, my reason, are all at your mercy; if you fail me to-night, I am lost”.
Lanyon and Jekyll were close friends
Written in Jekyll’s letter to Lanyon
“The less I understood of this farrago”.
Lanyon in a confused situation
“The door was very strong, the lock excellent; the carpenter avowed he would have great trouble and have to do much damage, if force were to be used”.
Symbolism of breaking down each individual barrier to get the truth
“But I have since had reason to believe the cause to lie much deeper in the nature of man, and to turn on some nobler hinge than the principle of hatred”.
Everyone feels some form of disgust towards Hyde
“Dressed in a fashion that would have made an ordinary person laughable: his clothes, that is to say, although they were of rich and sober fabric, were enormously too large for him in every measurement”.
Hyde wears Jekyll’s clothes even though they’re too big
“That he was wrestling against the approaches of the hysteria”.
Animal instinct
Losing control
“The mixture, which was at first of a reddish hue, began, in proportion as the crystals melted, to brighten in colour, to effervesce audibly, and to throw off small fumes of vapour”.
Theme of science
“And now, you who have so long been bound to the most narrow and material views, you who have denied the virtue of transcendental medicine, you who have derided your superiors - behold!”
Hyde criticising Lanyon about medicine/science
“O God!” I screamed, and “O God!” again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death - there stood Henry Jekyll!”
First time reader finds out Jekyll and Hyde are same person
“My life is shaken to its roots; sleep has left me; the deadliest terror sits by me at all hours of the day and night; I feel that my days are numbered, and that I must die; and yet I shall die incredulous”.
Jekyll/Hyde feels he should die
Repetition of semi-colon (;) emphasises how things aren’t as they used to be for Jekyll/Hyde
Knows he’s inhumane
