Lanyon

• Which thematic links link to Lanyon?

  • Friendship
  • Reputation
  • Science
• Lanyon acts as a mirror to Jekyll and his experimental science
• Which two quotes show Lanyon as a lively character and which contrast him to Utterson? Later these quotes contrast him to what he's like in Chapter 6.

  "he sprang up from his chair"

  "hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman"
• How does Lanyon describe Jekyll's experimental science?

  "unscientific balderdash"
• Which quote describes Lanyon in Chapter 6 after he has found out Jekyll's secret which contrasts him to when the reader first met him in Chapter 2?

  "the rosy man had grown pale"
• Which quote shows how Lanyon's perspective of Jekyll has changed and become more extreme after Jekyll shows him how he can transform into Hyde?

  "whom I regard as dead"
• When Lanyon watches Hyde transform into Jekyll he says:

  "my soul sickened at it"
• What does Lanyon say when Utterson visits him in Chapter 6 which shows Lanyon's shock?

  "I must die; and yet I shall die incredulous"