Author Archives: Jordan Zhang

Dr. Moreau’s view of Prendick visit

            This uninvited visitor, Edward Prendick, has caused me and my projects nothing but trouble. Montgomery has informed me that he has heard of my name before and was familiar with what I was experimenting on. He also seen the ears of Montgomery’s servant along with the other “special” animals on this island. At first I thought that Prendick was not going to a big deal to be worrying about, but now he might discover everything I have been doing all these years. All my life’s work will be gone to waste for nothing by just this one guy. If he finds out too much, I have to get rid of him. Then again he could prove to be very useful in my experiments. I need Montgomery to keep a close eye on our guest and to make sure that he doesn’t wander off where he is most definitely unwanted.

 

            I wrote this monologue in the view of Dr. Moreau would have with Prendick arriving on the secluded island. I figure that the reason Dr. Moreau was on this island with no other human interactions, other than Montgomery, is that he is doing something illegal. When Prendick goes out on his own and discover the strange beast-like man on the island, I realized that those beast-like men are the experiments that Dr. Moreau has been working on. Along with the painful screams of the puma is an indication that he is working with animals. Dr. Moreau is trying to create something with some aspects of both animals and humans.

Beyond the Bayou

I chose to compare Rip Van Winkle’s wife and Jacqueline, or La Folle. Both of these female characters are polar opposites. Irving doesn’t give Rip’s wife a thorough introduction to her character. All we know is that she is always yelling at Rip on what to do and what he’s doing wrong. In Chopin’s story of Beyond the Bayou, La Folle is given to us in details from what she looks like and how she gotten her nickname. La Folle has more power to change the story the in whatever way she would have wanted, and she also conquered her fear of crossing the bayou. In Rip Van Winkle, Rip’s wife never had the chance to say much throughout the story, so she couldn’t have much influence on how the ending would end.