Lanyon

morbid curiousity (bound, referring to J)

“I felt bound to do as he had requested”

• critique of giving into desires(Utterson doesn’t and is fine)

• bound= emotive language

foil(fanciful)

“Jekyll became too fanciful for me”

• too = intensifies the dismissive tone to show Jekyll’s curiosity is good

• scientific antithesis

respectability(rosy)

“rosy man grown pale”

• botanical imagery = inevitable decay (critiques how the overly traditional cannot adapt and will fall behind)

social and moral (balderdash)

“unscientific balderdash”

• voice of scientific skepticism

• emotive language

secrecy (balder)

“visibly balder and older”

• assonance places emphasis on the end of the sentence(alludes to end of L’s life)

• contrasts ch6 hearty + healthy

J + L relationship(damon and)

“would’ve estranged Damon and Pythias”

• strong before J followed his temptations, even a friendship escaping death cannot escape Jekyll’s actions

why is Lanyon in this position?

Utterson is the only good for Jekyll and logically it couldn’t be the narrator

• links back to critiques of overly traditionalist views

respectability(roots)

“my life is shaken to its roots”

• roots = foundation in nature imagery, so Lanyon’s entire identity is challenged at H’s existence

• hypocrisy & stagnation (man of science v. bound by self-view)

traditional view (hide-bound)

"hide-bound pedant … ignorant, blatant pedant"

• repetition, said by J, highlights L's stagnation by conventionality

• cacophony (abrasive sounds) to emphasize

• unreliable narration to force questioning judgement

respectability (frown)

"a good fellow - you needn't frown - an excellent fellow"

• parenthesis(interruption) to evoke unease

• emblematic facade mirrors victorian duplicity

• correctio(linguistic refinement) for idealised image of J

traditionalist view(deep-seated)

“deep-seated terror of the mind” describing L

• removal of rationality

• terror = haunt, imagery of the supernatural

respectability (voice unsteady)

“he said in a loud, unsteady voice”

• condemning, uncontrollable

  • voice can be seen as his reason & expression, the existence of Hyde fractures his reasoning

religious imagery(God’s name)

“God’s name, go, for I cannot bear it”

• to use God is serious and condemning in the Victorian era

• foreshadows Jekyll’s betrayal of God

respectability (flesh)

“his flesh had fallen away”

• hyperbole, skeletal imagery = life shaken

respectability(recover)

“I shall never recover”

• shall = modal verb, never = definite and emotive

meeting with H (icy)

“icy pang”

• shock due to respectability

• links to physiognomy

meeting H (petrified)

“I sat petrified”

• no power over situation(stripped away/broken down by his own conscience)

meeting H(deadly)

“deadliest terror”

• cynical + paranoia = fear in reader

respectability (dead)

“One whom I regard as dead”

• progression from disproval to hatred

• suspense, dead = precise and unquestionable gravity

religion/science (new province)

“new province of knowledge and new avenues to fame”

• science against God // potion + H linked with evil

• like fruit + temptation, curiosity leads to damnation

• J was chasing after fame but deformed