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What rapid change does Dr Lanyon suddenly undergo Who and what does Stevenson suggest is responsible for this change cite textual evidence?
Cite textual evidence. He becomes sick. Stevenson suggests Dr. Jekyll is responsible for this change.
What did Dr Lanyon declare himself as?
“Yes,” he thought; “he is a doctor, he must know his own state and that his days are counted; and the knowledge is more than he can bear.” And yet when Utterson remarked on his ill looks, it was with an air of great firmness that Lanyon declared himself a doomed man.
What does the letter from Lanyon have in common with Dr. Jekyll’s will?
What does the letter from Lanyon have in common with Jekyll’s will? Lanyon’s letter is not to be opened until after “the death or disappearance of Dr.
What important event in the plot does Dr Lanyon’s letter reveal?
Utterson reads Jekyll’s newly amended will and takes Jekyll’s confession to read at home. As Jekyll has disappeared, Utterson reads Dr Lanyon’s letter which tells him the true nature of Jekyll’s experiments.
What is in Lanyon’s letter to Utterson?
Jekyll stood in his place. Lanyon here ends his letter, stating that what Jekyll told him afterward is too shocking to repeat and that the horror of the event has so wrecked his constitution that he will soon die.
What was in Lanyons letter to Utterson?
Utterson reads the document left with him by Dr Lanyon before his death. It describes a written request from Jekyll to acquire some chemicals from his laboratory to place with his messenger.
What does Guest conclude after seeing the letter?
What does Guest conclude after seeing the letter? Guest concludes that the handwritting of Mr. Hyde and Dr.
What was Dr. Jekyll motive for showing the letter to Mr Utterson?
Utterson has been worried about Hyde’s influence because of what is in Jekyll’s will. By showing Utterson this letter, Jekyll hopes to make him feel better because the letter says Hyde is never coming back. That way he will never influence Jekyll again.
What did Lanyon see that shocked him so much?
Hyde allowed Lanyon to witness his change back into Jekyll. Jekyll then confessed his sings to Lanyon. Since Lanyon is such a Godly man, this literally shocked him. Why does Utterson mutter “God forgive us” after the incident at the window?
How does Lanyon end his letter to Dr Jekyll?
Lanyon here ends his letter, stating that what Jekyll told him afterward is too shocking to repeat and that the horror of the event has so wrecked his constitution that he will soon die. This chapter finally makes explicit the nature of Dr. Jekyll’s relationship to his darker half, Mr. Hyde—the men are one and the same person.
What was the purpose of the letter to Lanyon?
The letter instructed Lanyon then to remove a specific drawer and all its contents from the laboratory, return with this drawer to his own home, and wait for a man who would come to claim it precisely at midnight. The letter seemed to Lanyon to have been written in a mood of desperation.
What did Lanyon see at the stroke of Midnight?
As promised, at the stroke of midnight, a small, evil-looking man appeared, dressed in clothes much too large for him. It was, of course, Mr. Hyde, but Lanyon, never having seen the man before, did not recognize him.
What did Hyde say to Lanyon to disprove transcendental medicine?
Lanyon, irritated, declared that he had already become so involved in the matter that he wanted to see the end of it. Taking up the glass, Hyde told Lanyon that his skepticism of “transcendental medicine” would now be disproved.