How Stevenson presents Dr Lanyon, and how the character develops across the text: conventional science, his quarrel with Jekyll, and the shock that kills him.
The key quotations for this character and how to analyse them, with the context that shapes them.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'a hearty, healthy, dapper, red-faced gentleman', 'Such unscientific balderdash', 'I have had a shock', 'My life is shaken to its roots', 'the moral turpitude that man unveiled to me'.
Lanyon as conventional, materialist science, and his death as the cost of seeing what lies beyond it.
Edexcel's novel question has two parts, and neither marks context: part (a) on the printed extract marks language, form and structure (AO2); part (b) on the novel elsewhere, from memory, marks the argument and its references (AO1), not language analysis. Use context only where it explains a reading, and say which part each worked paragraph and exam tip is for.
