Exer. 1: Write about the implications of these two phrases. How are they different? What can their differences tell us about their difference between Jekyll and Lanyon? a) "unscientific balderdash" - Lanyon Jekyll is a highly experimental scientist, preferring the cutting edge to more rigorous study, which is why Lanyon denigrates his chemical exploration. Lanyon likely prefers more rigorous testing or just more conventional medicine. The context of drugs as medicine being a much newer profession than surgery might also mean that Lanyon is calling Jekyll's science balderdash because new fields have much less established truth so poor scientific inquiry can happen. b) "scientific heresies" - Jekyll Jekyll, who is exploring drugs/chemicals even before discovering the one that transforms him into Hyde (and exposes some of the Victorian morals that Jekyll would like to abandon, which Lanyon might be seeing), believes that his experiments are very scientific but because they are untraditional, Lanyon is prejudiced against them. His experiments are much more exploratory, so they are very likely less rigorous, but they are nonetheless science because they are trying to discover new things about the world. Exer. 2: Do Dr Jekyll and doctors like him preserve "health" and morality or do they corrupt them? This question has multiple answers dependent on if "morals" refers to Victorian morals or more modern formulations (although they are not entirely discrete). Dr Jekyll's passion, even though it comes from a place of negative desire, isn't intrinsically immoral. Even though pain relievers and unsafe remedies dreamt up by mad scientists are often diagnosed irresponsibly by those same doctors, the drugs themselves (opioids, etc) improve overall health. In and of himself, Jekyll corrupted his own morality, but motivation isn't strictly important in reserach medicine. Dr Markley mentions that doctors, in a bedside manner way, need to be viewed as moral people, but research scientists don't have such a reputation.