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Upper-class gentleman |
. At first, Dr Lanyon is described as a "hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman" who is friendly and sociable - when Utterson goes to see him he "sprang up from his chair and welcomed him with both hands" . This makes him seem larger than life - his friendliness seem "theatrical", which might suggest that he's putting on a front, but it has "genuine feeling" behind it |
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Lanyon is a rational scientist |
. Lanyon has quite a lot in common with Jekyll - they're both doctors and are both respected men, as well as "inseparable friends" . They have very different views on science - Lanyon deals with rational science in the material world while Jekyll experiments with science of a mystical or supernatural nature . Lanyon regards this as "unscientific balderdash", and Jekyll thinks Lanyon is an "ignorant blatant pedant" for being so sceptical |
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Lanyon can't cope with the secret |
. Like Utterson, Lanyon never comes close to guessing the truth about Jekyll and Hyde - he finds Jekyll's letter asking Lanyon to retrieve drugs strange, as a man of reason he concludes that Jekyll is suffering from a "cerebral disease" . Lanyon allows himself to watch Hyde take the potion, saying that he's "gone too far" not to find out the truth - this shoes that he's tempted by knowledge . Jekyll shows Lanyon evidence of the supernatural that he can't ignore - Lanyon's whole world view is turned upside down by Jekyll's discovery, his "soul sickened", which shows the depth of his shock and he dies as he can't recover from such a revelation |
