science and religion

• "I beg you will spare me any allusion to one whom I regard as dead." - Lanyon


  Stevenson presents Lanyon's emotions very clearly in this section - one of Jekyll's oldest friends views him as 'dead' due to what he has done. The language Stevenson uses is charged with passion and emotion. The repetition of 'I' illustrates that Lanyon feels he is in control of the situation and has control over Jekyll.
• "there lay the body of a man sorely contorted and still twitching."


  This shows that Jekyll eventually killed himself as his desire to experiment made Mr Hyde get stronger. The use of the phrase 'sorely contorted' illustrates how science changed who Jekyll was and who he became. It 'contorted' his very self.
• "A week afterwards Dr Lanyon took to his bed, and in something less than a fortnight he was dead."


  The short time period of a week illustrates how quickly Dr Lanyon's health deteriorated because of Dr Jekyll's revelation.
• "The hard law of life, which lies in the root of religion"


  The "hard law" is that all humans are sinful
• "Chief of sufferers" [Refers to Jekyll]


  Jekyll's lack of control over his science has made him face the hell of reality in which he suffers.
• "temptation of a discovery so singular and profound"


  Jekyll's motivation to oppose religion and create Hyde. He doesn't create Hyde for the greater good of the world but to benefit himself.
• "Oh god... oh god" - Lanyon


  Lanyon cannot from a rational or religious view point understand the transformation of Hyde.
• "deadly nausea" "horror of the spirit"


  Show the power of science.
• "God bless me, the man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic"


  Utterson - 'troglodytic' = caveman-like. This shows regression and links to evolution. The sentence also has the juxtapositioning ideas of religion and science.
• "Hissing intake of breath"


  Animalistic imagery because of 'hissing', connotations to snakes = evil and scheming
• "My life has been shaken too it's roots; sleep has left me; the deadliest terror sits by me"


  Lanyon a practical and rational thinking has left his mind in terror after witnessing the transformation.
• "Clubbed him... with ape-like fury... and hailing down a storm of blows"


  Hyde - 'clubbed' = caveman imagery as they use clubs; regression. 'ape-like fury' evolution = regression.
• "Your sight shall be blasted by a prodigy to stagger the unbelief of Satan"


  Hyde - Here Hyde is suggesting to Lanyon whether he would go face to face with evil or go home. 'prodigy' = genius.

  "Like a man restored from death" Chp. 9