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Jekyll and Hyde chapter 6: "Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon"…
Jekyll and Hyde chapter 6: "Remarkable Incident of Dr Lanyon"
Character profiles
Lanyon
Friend of Utterson and Jekyll, trusts Utterson with the truth about J&H, not superstitious until he sees Hyde
Utterson
Friend of Lanyon and Jekyll, as well as being Jekyll's lawyer. given letters by Jekyll and Lanyon to open after their deaths
Jekyll
Friend of Utterson and Lanyon, secretly made a potion that turns himself into Mr Hyde, is slowly taken over by Hyde
Hyde
Dr Jekyll's alter ego / evil side, commits a series of violent crimes, kills Sir Danvers Carew, introduced trampling a girl
Key themes
Sickness
Science vs religion
Respectability
Summary
Utterson goes to Lanyon and finds him deathly sick and unwilling to talk about Jekyll
Lanyon gives Utterson a letter to open after his death
Jekyll suddenly stop receiving visitors again
Hyde doesn't reappear, Jekyll starts feeling better
Key quotes
"I wish to see or hear no more of Dr Jekyll"
What Lanyon has seen is so bad that he no longer wants to talk about someone who was his best friend
"He had his death-warrant written legibly upon his face"
Lanyon has been punished ("death-warrant") for seeing something unholy
"'The doctor was confined to the house,' Poole said, 'and saw no one'"
Jekyll has isolated himself again, shows that Hyde is becoming stronger, Jekyll goes into hiding every time it happens
"If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also"
Theme of religion
The doctor, it appeared, now more than ever confined himself to the cabinet over the laboratory
Gone to the laboratory, locked himself in until he finds a cure to turn himself back into Jekyll