Dr Lanyon

- Lanyon has a transformation from before and after he learns of Jekyll’s secret.

• “A hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman with a shock of hair prematurely white.”

- In the beginning of the novel, Lanyon is filled with energy and personality.

- Its important Stevenson presents Lanyon this way in the beginning of the novel to see how much of a contrast there really was.

• “His flesh had fallen away”

- Shows how he has transformed and how much it affected him.

- We see Lanyon’s dark side present more and more as he regresses.

- Regressed into this monstrous state.

- Lanyon is the only one who recognises that darkness in him, which send him spiralling.

• “I was with an air of greatness that Lanyon declared himself a doomed man.”

- Although Lanyon comes across as scared, he is courageous in his willingness to acknowledge the truth.

- Utterson is in denial of what Hyde is throughout the book, whereas Lanyon is not scared to accept the truth.

- Lanyon is a symbol of trust and loyalty in a world of deception.

- He represents the fear of regression in a Victorian society.