Explain why lanyon died

As he sees the trasformation he is aghast by it. Later when Jekyll tells him everything he is shocked to hear that life has horrors too for his life has always been pleassent. A week later he dies of the shock. Hyde turn into Dr. When Lanyon saw that he got really scared and got ill form it and died by the illness. Remember me. Forgot your password? New User? Within the drawer, Lanyon found several vials, one containing what seemed to be salt and another holding a peculiar red liquid.

However, the notebooks offered no hints as to what the experiments involved. Lanyon waited for his visitor, increasingly certain that Jekyll must be insane. 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.

Hyde seemed nervous and excited. He avoided polite conversation, interested only in the contents of the drawer. Lanyon directed him to it, and Hyde then asked for a graduated glass. In it, he mixed the ingredients from the drawer to form a purple liquid, which then became green. 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.

This chapter finally makes explicit the nature of Dr. Hyde—the men are one and the same person. But even this knowledge does not diminish the shocking effect of the climax of the novel, the moment when we finally witness the interchange between the two identities. Lanyon dies soon after and leaves a letter to Utterson that is only to be opened on the death or disappearance of Dr Jekyll. Utterson, being a good lawyer, locks this away in his safe.

Utterson tries to visit Jekyll again several times but his servant, Poole, says he is living in isolation and will not see anyone. Utterson and Enfield, whilst out on one of their walks, pass by Jekyll's window and see him. He looks like a prisoner in solitary confinement.