The character I am most drawn to in the novel "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is Dr. Lanyon. I think this is because I can understand his logical thinking the best. I feel like in a way we relate. I know what its like to feel when you can see something for its pure evil and no matter how much you try to convince the ones around you to heed your warnings still they are blindsided of seeing the bad. Lanyon in my opinion is the most honest. I feel as if Utterson is way to personal. Although without doubt hes a great friend, his feelings are way to personal. He never once puts blame on Dr. Jekyll and looks for scapegoats in other things and people to tangent the public eye away from his dear friend.
I think what Stevenson is trying to do is show the tolerance of real friendship. Not only that but he gets you thinking about what kind of people have certain tolerances. Like Dr. Lanyon, his persona was a educated friendly man yet, he knew when enough was enough. Where as the lawyer Mr. Utterson is more of a disclosed uneasy man with his own secretive life. The factors of what makes people up contributes to how they value things and thats kind of what Stevenson' moral point could possibly be.
i disagree about your points on Mr. Utterson. I don't think he is personal as much as trying to be a good friend. I do think however that he does express his feelings toward what he is doing more than other characters. Which may lead you to saying he is very personal. I do agree about what you said about Mr. Lanyon though. i do think he is easiest to understand. But with that to me comes boredom and thats why i did not choose him as the character i am most interested in.
ReplyDeletei agree with you that Stevenson was tying to show the tolerance of real friendship i think dr.lanyon is a descent person cause as much as he didn't like Jekyll's ideas he still didn't blame him for anything
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that Lanyon is very honest. I understand why you think Lanyon is personal because he expresses his feelings more than other characters in the book. I also agree that Stevensons's moral point is how people value things.
ReplyDeletei agree with you on some of the points you made but im not sure if i agree with you on the fact that Utterson's feelings are way too persional, what do you mean by this? and Lanyon is a very honest character in many ways i agree with you on that one. Another thing i agree with is the fact that Stevenson's moral is to prove a point on the value of thins because of the way he describes the littlest things specifically.
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