Dr Hastie Lanyon
Dr Lanyon is an upper-class gentleman
He’s a rational scientist
Described as a ‘hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman’ ❤
‘sprang up from his chair and welcomed him with both hands’ ❤
Seems larger than life
‘theatrical’ ❤
‘genuine feeling’ ❤
Faithful
‘I felt bound to do as he requested’ ❤
Friendly
‘welcomed him with both hands’ ❤
Conventional
‘Jekyll became too fanciful for me’ ❤
Quite a lot in common with Jekyll
Very different views on science
Regards this as ‘unscientific balderdash’ ❤
‘inseperable’ ❤
‘ignorant blatant pedant’ ❤
Lanyon can’t cope with Jekyll’s supernatural secret
Lanyon never comes close to the truth
Lanyon allows himself to watch Hyde take the potion
Jekyll shows Lanyon evidence of the supernatural
‘cerebral disease’ ❤
‘gone too far’ ❤
‘soul sickened’ ❤