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Dr Hastie Lanyon Flashcards

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initially, lanyon is presented..

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through his appearance

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finish the quote: ‘hearty..

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..healthy dapper red-faced gentleman’

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‘hearty, healthy dapper’

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  • alliteration - vibrant personality
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finish the quote: ‘with a shock..

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…of hair prematurely white’

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finish the quote: ‘boisterous and decided..

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..manner’

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initially, lanyon is presented…

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through his geniality

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finish the quote: ‘welcomed him…

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..with both hands’

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finish the quote: ‘genuine…

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..feeling’

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initially, lanyon is presented…

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through his opinions on jekyll

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finish the quote: ‘too fanciful….

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…for me’

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finish the quote: ‘wrong,

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..wrong in the mind’

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finish the quote: ‘devilish…

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…little’

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finish the quote: ‘such…

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..unscientific balderdash’

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finish the quote: ‘flushing…

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…suddenly purple’

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‘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
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initially, lanyon is presented…

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through the perspective of jekyll

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finish the quote: ‘hide-bound…

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…pedant’

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finish the quote: ‘ignorant…

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…blatant pedant’

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finish the quote: ‘never more…

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…disappointed in any man’

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throughout the middle of the novel, lanyon is presented…

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throughout his appearance

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finish the quote: ‘he had his death-

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..warrant written legibly upon his face’

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finish the quote: ‘rosy man…

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..had grown pale’

23
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finish the quote: ‘his flesh had…

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…fallen away’

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finish the quote: ‘was visibly…

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…balder and older’

25
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finish the quote: ‘a swift…

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…physical decay’

26
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finish the quote: ‘to some…

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…deep-seated terror of the mind’

27
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finish the quote: ‘held up a trembling..

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…hand’

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‘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
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‘trembling hand’

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  • frightened
  • duality of man and inherent evil
  • unfathomable
  • victorian gentleman
30
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throughout the end of the novel, immorality is presented…

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through his fear of science

31
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finish the quote: ‘might have been half…

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..full of a blood-red liquor’

32
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finish the quote: ‘highly pungent…

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…to the sense of smell’

33
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finish the quote: ‘seemed to..

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…me to contain’

34
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finish the quote: ‘told me little…

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…that was definite’

35
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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
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(ch.9) finally, lanyon is presented…

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through his disgust of hyde

38
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finish the quote: ‘disgustful…

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…curiosity’

39
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finish the quote: ‘below his…

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…haunches’

40
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finish the quote: ‘far from moving…

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…me to laughter’

41
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finish the quote: ‘something seizing, surprising..

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…and revolting’

42
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finish the quote: ‘very essence…

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…of the creature’

43
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(ch.9) finally, lanyon is presented…

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through temptation

44
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finish the quote: ‘or has the..

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..greed of curiosity too much command of you?

45
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finish the quote: ‘a new province of..

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…knowledge and new avenues of fame’

46
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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
47
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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’

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

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through his shock

50
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finish the quote: ‘o god! i screamed..

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..and o god! again and again’

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‘o god’

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  • repeated
  • presented as religious
  • believes only god can save him from the blasphemous sight -> pious society
52
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finish the quote: ‘soul sickened…

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..at it’

53
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finish the quote: ‘my life is shaken..

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..to its roots’

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‘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

English Literature : Jekyll and Hyde (31 decks)

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