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Monologue from Prendick perspective

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(Prendick thoughts while on the brig that picked him up).

“After several months of being stranded on this wretched island, I’m finally headed back to mankind. I look to the sky, lost in deep thoughts of what will happen when I return back to civilization. What will things be like? Will my interaction will normal human beings be differently? I constantly wonder what changes have taken place since my time away and how differently will being around normal humans affect me. Will I ever be the same after seeing and experiencing the horrors of that island? Such questions puzzled me. I believe after witnessing such tragedies and horrific creatures, my view and outlook on life will be completely different. I won’t ever able to unseen that island and those grotesque creatures and what pain they have caused me upon my arrival to my departure on that island. Although I am ecstatic of getting far away from that island, my mind won’t let me leave happily because of the thoughts of living a normal life from here on forward.

 

This monologue from Prendick’s perspective offers more insight into one my guiding questions from chapter 19-22 because from reading those last few chapters, I wondered if Prendick’s life will ever be the same when he gets off that island. After witnessing all that he has, it had to leave some long term effects on him and his mind because he seen these creatures and their true animals instinct no matter how humanlike Moreau tried to make them. I didn’t think that Prendick will conform back to his original lifestyle because of the permanent mark these creatures have instilled upon him. And just as we learn at the end he finds it difficult to live his life normally because as Prendick stated, “I could not get away from the men; their voices came through the windows; into the streets to fight with my delusion…” He never were able to get his old life back, those creatures would haunt his mind where ever he goes.

Create: Hyena-Swine Monologue

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“Every time the man with the whip prepares for his meal, something smell especially good. A lot better than what I found to eat in the woods. And when I saw Leopard man hunt for the rabbit, I  want in on that. But the master knows everything, and that is why they cornered Leopard man. And now the master is dead, that 5-fingers man is no master, he bleed and feel pain just like the rest of us. I will hunt on all four for flesh, this some how come very naturally to me. Sucking up water in all four is so satisfying, I didn’t feel bad for the dog man I ate. In fact I bet the 5-fingers man taste just as good too, and I will chase after him. ”

This is the monologue of the Hyena-swine, he has retrogress to his beast form and finds it much fulfilling. My guiding question was what does the animal represent? The dog man has loyal just like the characteristic, he has to find a master to obey to, and he die fulfilling his master’s wish. It is a tragic but the Dog-man probably feels he fulfilled his purpose. The Dog-Man represent loyalty.

“The two most formidable Animal Men were my Leopard-man and a creature made of Hyena and swine.”

The Hyena-swine are two animals who eat meat naturally, and the way Moreau force them to obey the law to not eat flesh is unnatural to him. I would say the Leopard man and Hyena-swine represent revolt, he was being oppressed under Dr. Moreau’s law and when he saw Leopard-man broke the law, a part of Hyena-swine beast habitat tells him to do so too. But he was afraid of the House of Pain, but he sees that the master fears them too and the master bleed just like them. Hyena-swine knows he no longer have to be obeys the law, he no longer have to oppress his thirst for living his natural form.

Dr. Moreau’s view of Prendick visit

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            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.

[Group 4] Create: The Black Faced Man

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I am known as the Black Faced Man.

I laid my eyes on Montgomery for the first time on one of his hunting voyages. He was in search for some animals in which, at the time, I didn’t know what it was for. The way he caught these animals you could tell he had done this plenty of times before. He was in the woods alone and I happened to see him on my way back home from a camping trip. He seemed like a dangerous man with all the tools he held, so I stayed behind a tree as I observed him. I accidentally  stepped on some branches and he looked directly at me. I was scared. He walked towards me while asking, “Who’s there?” I walked away from my hiding and told him my name, “Goldman, Sir.” He asked me what I was doing in the woods and told me that I shouldn’t be there. I explained to him that I was on my way back home from a trip and happened to see him. He looked at me from head to toe with his had on his chin as if he were to be thinking of something. He asked me if I had a wife or any family. I answered, “No, Sir.” He then offered me a job. He didn’t explain well but he told me that it would something extraordinary and it would be very important to the future or our lives. Blindly, I said yes since I had nothing to lose. Montgomery took me on his ship and off we went. I had no idea what I had coming for me. We arrived and was immediately greeted by some man named Moreau. Moreau told me he was a scientist and that he was going to change the world but he needed by help.

I was one of his experiments. I am half wolf and half man. I am werewolf.

Now I am forced to be part of this island because I am a monster. The only place I can be accepted in is the land of experiements.

My explanation: The question I wanted to explore was the question of animals. The animals that  Prendick witnessed on the ship were obviously going to be used for either experimentation or reproduction. When “The Black Faced Man” was introduced as something so peculiar I automatically thought he was an experiment. But of what? I wanted to know more about this black faced man so I created a story about him. The description given by Prendick automatically made me think of a werewolf or some type of dog like a fox or a wolf. These animals are forest animals and went with that story.

“The Dead” Create Blog Post (Group 3)

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“It is sad but true, that the new generation is over thinking and coming up with ideas that make the old way of living obsolete. This is serious because this new way of thinking will make that generation not have a good quality and it will somehow make it harder from them to function in some way. When I was listening to those great singers of the past I could tell that we were living in a less spacious age. Those days where without a doubt, very spacious and to think that it’s just going to get worse makes me depressed. That is why we must still cherish those who are “dead”, those who have wandered off the road and created a new path for themselves and hope that we can forgive them and treat them fairly or the same. To not ridicule and make fun of them based off of jumping to conclusions; fore it is this endless cycle that just makes things worse. The reason why is because the new generations are the ones who frame the world, generations change and if we can’t take responsibility for our mistakes, generations will suffer. We must not let them suffer more by willingly letting them be forgotten. We must not let our clouded judgement make decisions for us.” – Mr. Browne.

The way this monolog offers insight into Mr. Browne’s character is that it reveals that he is very brave for agreeing with Gabriel’s announcement because it seemed to me that Mr. Browne was the only one to acknowledge Gabriel’s speech by loudly saying “hear, hear” in the middle of it when no one else did. Mr. Browne is smart because it seems like he is the only one that made sense to what Gabriel was saying at the exact moment.