Dr Hastie Lanyon

Question 1

initially, lanyon is presented..

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through his appearance

Question 2

finish the quote: ‘hearty..

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..healthy dapper red-faced gentleman’

Question 3

‘hearty, healthy dapper’

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• alliteration - vibrant personality

Question 4

finish the quote: ‘with a shock..

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…of hair prematurely white’

Question 5

finish the quote: ‘boisterous and decided..

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..manner’

Question 6

initially, lanyon is presented…

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through his geniality

Question 7

finish the quote: ‘welcomed him…

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..with both hands’

Question 8

finish the quote: ‘genuine…

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..feeling’

Question 9

initially, lanyon is presented…

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through his opinions on jekyll

Question 10

finish the quote: ‘too fanciful….

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…for me’

Question 11

finish the quote: ‘wrong,

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..wrong in the mind’

Question 12

finish the quote: ‘devilish…

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…little’

Question 13

finish the quote: ‘such…

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..unscientific balderdash’

Question 14

finish the quote: ‘flushing…

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…suddenly purple’

Question 15

‘fanciful’
‘wrong,wrong in mind’
‘such unscientific balderdash’
‘devilish little’
‘flushing suddenly purple’

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• 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

Question 16

initially, lanyon is presented…

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through the perspective of jekyll

Question 17

finish the quote: ‘hide-bound…

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…pedant’

Question 18

finish the quote: ‘ignorant…

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…blatant pedant’

Question 19

finish the quote: ‘never more…

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…disappointed in any man’

Question 20

throughout the middle of the novel, lanyon is presented…

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throughout his appearance

Question 21

finish the quote: ‘he had his death-

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..warrant written legibly upon his face’

Question 22

finish the quote: ‘rosy man…

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..had grown pale’

Question 23

finish the quote: ‘his flesh had…

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…fallen away’

Question 24

finish the quote: ‘was visibly…

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…balder and older’

Question 25

finish the quote: 'a swift...

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...physical decay'

Question 26

finish the quote: 'to some...

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...deep-seated terror of the mind'

Question 27

finish the quote: 'held up a trembling..

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...hand'

Question 28

'he had his death-warrant written legibly upon his face' 'grown pale' 'flesh had fallen away' 'visibly balder and older' 'swift physical decay'

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- 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

Question 29

'trembling hand'

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- frightened - duality of man and inherent evil - unfathomable - victorian gentleman

Question 30

throughout the end of the novel, immorality is presented...

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through his fear of science

Question 31

finish the quote: 'might have been half...

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..full of a blood-red liquor'

Question 32

finish the quote: 'highly pungent...

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...to the sense of smell'

Question 33

finish the quote: 'seemed to..

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...me to contain'

Question 34

finish the quote: 'told me little...

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...that was definite'

Question 35

finish the quote: 'cerebral..

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...disease'

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'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'

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- 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

Question 37

(ch.9) finally, lanyon is presented...

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through his disgust of hyde

Question 38

finish the quote: 'disgustful...

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...curiosity'

Question 39

finish the quote: 'below his...

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...haunches'

Question 40

finish the quote: 'far from moving...

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...me to laughter'

Question 41

finish the quote: 'something seizing, surprising..

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...and revolting'

Question 42

finish the quote: 'very essence...

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...of the creature'

Question 43

(ch.9) finally, lanyon is presented...

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through temptation

Question 44

finish the quote: 'or has the..

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..greed of curiosity too much command of you?

Question 45

finish the quote: 'a new province of..

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...knowledge and new avenues of fame'

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'greed of curiosity' 'new province of knowledge and new avenues of fame'

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- lanyon has two choices - a rational character, lanyon subverts our expectations and chooses evil

Question 47

finish the quote: 'i have gone too far...

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...in the way of inexplicable services to pause before i see the end'

Question 48

'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'

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- 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

Question 49

(ch.9) finally, lanyon is presented..

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through his shock

Question 50

finish the quote: 'o god! i screamed..

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..and o god! again and again'

Question 51

'o god'

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- repeated - presented as religious - believes only god can save him from the blasphemous sight -> pious society

Question 52

finish the quote: 'soul sickened...

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..at it'

Question 53

finish the quote: 'my life is shaken..

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..to its roots'

Question 54

'my life is shaken to its roots'

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- representation of lanyon's mental health - lived as a flourishing gentleman - metaphor of a healthy tree - foreshadows lanyon's death