Dr Hastie Lanyon Flashcards
initially, lanyon is presented..
through his appearance
finish the quote: ‘hearty..
..healthy dapper red-faced gentleman’
‘hearty, healthy dapper’
- alliteration - vibrant personality
finish the quote: ‘with a shock..
…of hair prematurely white’
finish the quote: ‘boisterous and decided..
..manner’
initially, lanyon is presented…
through his geniality
finish the quote: ‘welcomed him…
..with both hands’
finish the quote: ‘genuine…
..feeling’
initially, lanyon is presented…
through his opinions on jekyll
finish the quote: ‘too fanciful….
…for me’
finish the quote: ‘wrong,
..wrong in the mind’
finish the quote: ‘devilish…
…little’
finish the quote: ‘such…
..unscientific balderdash’
finish the quote: ‘flushing…
…suddenly purple’
‘fanciful’
‘wrong,wrong in mind’
‘such unscientific balderdash’
‘devilish little’
‘flushing suddenly purple’
- take a different stance with theories - lanyon presented as the complete opposite to jekyll
- represents a wider contextual battle between unscientific theories presented at the time
- lanyon presented as a traditional scientist
- j -> embraces mysticism
- l -> embraces rationalism and science based on facts and tangible evidence
- ‘flushing suddenly purple’ -> burst of emotion - similar to dr j -> both are changing due to the existence of hyde
initially, lanyon is presented…
through the perspective of jekyll
finish the quote: ‘hide-bound…
…pedant’
finish the quote: ‘ignorant…
…blatant pedant’
finish the quote: ‘never more…
…disappointed in any man’
throughout the middle of the novel, lanyon is presented…
throughout his appearance
finish the quote: ‘he had his death-
..warrant written legibly upon his face’
finish the quote: ‘rosy man…
..had grown pale’
finish the quote: ‘his flesh had…
…fallen away’
finish the quote: ‘was visibly…
…balder and older’
finish the quote: ‘a swift…
…physical decay’
finish the quote: ‘to some…
…deep-seated terror of the mind’
finish the quote: ‘held up a trembling..
…hand’
‘he had his death-warrant written legibly upon his face’
‘grown pale’
‘flesh had fallen away’
‘visibly balder and older’
‘swift physical decay’
- l presented as a symbol of his medical theories - dying away -> start of j’s new medical theories
- he dies because he can’t recover from such as revelation - his whole view is turned upside down by jekyll’s discovery
- ‘flesh had fallen away’ -> f sound -> fluid alliteration - underlines the fact that l’s flesh is literally slipping from his bones - reflective of j -> h and sees the similarities
- appearance completely changed
‘trembling hand’
- frightened
- duality of man and inherent evil
- unfathomable
- victorian gentleman
throughout the end of the novel, immorality is presented…
through his fear of science
finish the quote: ‘might have been half…
..full of a blood-red liquor’
finish the quote: ‘highly pungent…
…to the sense of smell’
finish the quote: ‘seemed to..
…me to contain’
finish the quote: ‘told me little…
…that was definite’
finish the quote: ‘cerebral..
…disease’
‘might have been half full of a blood-red liquor’
‘highly pungent to the sense of smell’
‘seemed to me to contain’
‘told me little that was definite’
‘cerebral disease’
- lanyon’s description of what he encounters in j’s private cabinet is disturbing - lanyon can’t make sense of it - depicted as clearly dangerous
- fear of science - stemmed from its unknown qualities- even dr lanyon can’t make sense of most of j’s experiments
- vague descriptions - presented as confused
- displays the difference between lanyon and jekyll and their medicine
- ‘cerebral disease’ -> man of reason, doesn’t believe in the supernatural
(ch.9) finally, lanyon is presented…
through his disgust of hyde
finish the quote: ‘disgustful…
…curiosity’
finish the quote: ‘below his…
…haunches’
finish the quote: ‘far from moving…
…me to laughter’
finish the quote: ‘something seizing, surprising..
…and revolting’
finish the quote: ‘very essence…
…of the creature’
(ch.9) finally, lanyon is presented…
through temptation
finish the quote: ‘or has the..
..greed of curiosity too much command of you?
finish the quote: ‘a new province of..
…knowledge and new avenues of fame’
‘greed of curiosity’
‘new province of knowledge and new avenues of fame’
- lanyon has two choices
- a rational character, lanyon subverts our expectations and chooses evil
finish the quote: ‘i have gone too far…
…in the way of inexplicable services to pause before i see the end’
‘greed of curiosity’
‘new province of knowledge and new avenues of fame’
‘i have gone too far in the way of inexplicable services to pause before i see the end’
- j+l to meet the same end due to temptation
- stevenson creates a parallel between the two doctors
- biblical reference -> throughout the novel, Hyde has been presented as a symbol of temptation - bible -> just as adam and eve suffered, so did lanyon
(ch.9) finally, lanyon is presented..
through his shock
finish the quote: ‘o god! i screamed..
..and o god! again and again’
‘o god’
- repeated
- presented as religious
- believes only god can save him from the blasphemous sight -> pious society
finish the quote: ‘soul sickened…
..at it’
finish the quote: ‘my life is shaken..
..to its roots’
‘my life is shaken to its roots’
- representation of lanyon’s mental health
- lived as a flourishing gentleman - metaphor of a healthy tree
- foreshadows lanyon’s death
