Dr Lanyon

Question 1

First impressions - Lanyon

Answer 1

Upper class respected gentlemen, respected for his work
“received” “his crowding patients”
larger than life, amicable
“theatrical” “genuine feeling”
“red-faced gentleman” - relatable character for 1886 audience

Question 2

Rational/level-headed perspective - Lanyon

Answer 2

opposes Jekyll’s “unscientific balderdash”
holds himself in high regard, wont associate with people he finds unreasonble “hide-bound pedant”
Passionate about his craft, “flushing suddenly purple” when confronted with Jekyll’s “fanciful” beliefs

Question 3

First to witness Jekyll’s transformation - Lanyon

Answer 3

only mentioned in his narrative, revealed later in the book after his death - too shocking for him to talk about out loud.
“ ‘O God!’ I screamed ‘O God’ “ “again and again”
Lanyon indulged in his own desires - curiosity, making the fatal decision to “see the end”, reasoning that he had “gone too far” not to
Freak shows, morbid curiosity

Question 4

Terrors Jekyll inflicted on others - Lanyon

Answer 4

Audience unnerved by “deep-seated terror of the mind” description
Vast departure from his “happy, hearty” self - now “the rosy man had grown pale” - unimaginable horror
Lanyon’s death is a moral point about the wrongness of Jekyll’s actions - against nature
“you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this” - not only to utterson but also to the readers
rapid decline “something less than a fortnight he was dead”