Lanyon

• "Hearty, happy, dapper, red-faced gentleman" - Ch 2

  • alliteration - full of life
  • adjective (red-faced) - upper class
  • lists - solidifies the fact that he is a very content man
  • all adjectives provide a sense of wealth and comfort
  • links to reputation within victorian gentlemen
• "boisterous and decided manner" - Ch 2

  • adjectives - upbeat, enthusiastic
  • evidences how he's a cheerful, lively, affectionate person
• "The great Dr Lanyon" - Ch 2

  • adjective (great) - well respected, well known and emphasis how massively Utterson admires him
  • quintessential of Victorian gentleman
• "Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me. He began to go wrong, wrong in mind" - Ch 2

  • repetition of noun (wrong) - has gone crazy
  • adjective (fanciful) - too illogical and creative
  • intensifier (too)
  • shows how Lanyon and Jekyll oppose each other, Lanyon is very much so conventional and traditional
• "Hide-bound pedant for all that; an ignorant, blatant pedant" - Ch 3

  • metaphor (hide bound pedant) - too concerned with rules and dis restricted by them, as well as unwilling to look beyond his traditional views
  • harsh consonance of the 't' sound - aggressive and riddled with anger
  • repetition of noun (pedant) portrays his resentment, his words seem to be imbued with a sense of bitterness
  • Ultimately, Jekylls views on Lanyon are wildly contradictory, reinforcing the suggestion that there's a dual nature to every aspect of life and that everything is complicated by contradiction
• "What he called my scientific heresies" - Ch 3

  • canyon believes Jekyll defies religion
  • noun (heresies) - goes against god and religion
  • Science vs religion
• "welcomed him with both hands" - Ch 2

  • open, friendly, welcoming
• "such unscientific balderdash [...] would have estranged Damon and Pythias" - Ch 2

  • embodies rationalism
  • serves as a foil to Jekyll, dismissing his experiments as nonsense
  • portrays conflict between religion and science as so pertinent it supersedes kin relations; it took precedence over the personal lives of individuals
• "such unscientific balderdash [...] would have estranged Damon and Pythias" - Ch 2

  • allusions to mythology ridicules him as a scientist as it exposes his beliefs aren't exclusively scientific. Stevenson is critiquing how the science that's strongly influenced by religion may be distorted and not entirely accurate - calling upon a transformation of science and religion and their place in societies discourse
• "he had his death-warrant written legibly upon his face" - Ch 6

  • noun (death-warrant) - a legal document which authorises a death of a criminal - serves as a figure for his apparently looming death
  • metaphor - certain to die, evokes a criminal thread to the plot, namely the actions of Mr Hyde, and calls more deeply into questioning Jekylls involvement
• "the rosy man had grown pale; his flesh had fallen away; he was visibly balder and older" - Ch 6

  • triplet - juxtaposes to his previous descriptions in Ch 2
  • adjectives (rosy) (pale) - juxtaposition
  • he's witnessed something 'impossible' which goes against all his beliefs and has a physical reaction
• "I have had a shock [...] I shall never recover" - Ch 6

  • short sentences - builds up tension
  • deliberately vague
• "I cannot bear it [...] I cannot tell you" - Ch 6

  • repletion of verb (cannot) - raises questions
  • secrecy
• "accursed" - Ch 6

  • adjective - hints of evil and the supernatural
• "My mind submerged in terror" - Ch 9

  • metaphor
  • drowning in fear from the horrors of what he saw
• "soul sickened" - Ch 9

  • alliteration + metaphor - emphasises depth of shock
  • noun (soul)
  • verb (sickened) - disgust, loathing
• " 'O God!' I screamed, and 'O God!' again and again" - Ch 9

  • repetition of noun (God) - calls back to religion for help
  • exlamation - enheightens emotions
  • repetition of adverb (again) - enhances shock and fear, implies what he's witnessed is evil and horrifying - a transgression fro Victorian morality
• "My life is shaken to its roots" - Ch 9

  • verb (shaken) - violent, shown the revolution that Jekyll and Hyde are the same person has completely changed Lanyon for the worst
  • noun (roots) - connotes to birth/ origin, in the absence of a coherent religious explanation for his existence, he is metaphorically unproved
  • metaphor - suggests that every fibre of his world had been unnerved
• "I shall die incredulous" - Ch 9

  • adjective (incredulous)
  • would rather die in a state of perpetual disbelief than to give in to the possible truth that threatens everything he knows
  • Stevenson almost ridicules the dogmatic (undoughtably true) nature of religious beliefs - he's presented with unquestionable evidence of this metaphysical science yet he refuses to concede
  • Jekylls transformation is hyperbolic yet symbolic, but as Lanyon dies from the shock of this, could illuminate how society will die and disintegrate if they don't open there eyes to reality