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Connect: At the mountains of madness/ island of Dr. Moreau scientific writing

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There are a lot of scientific writing within the story, giving it so much life and context, It brings out the suspense in the story using terms that would date some aspects of the story to a time period a very long time ago. That gives it more appeal to draw the reader to understand the scope of the story as it goes on. In Island of Dr Moreau, the  reader learns how the beasts were created through genetic splicing by grafting and how they were learned the human language though with some obscure and chaotic approaches. With at the mountain of madness, the narrator uses it to explain the process of  how the expedition works and what went supernatural wrong

Create; the dog-man

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Dear Master Prendick:

I’m a faithful to you master ever since we met at the beach. I’m more than faithful, I’m your slave. I will take care of you while you sleep and I will watch your back from the horrible hyena- swine. Although most of my race are angry and are fools for believing that our master is dead. They believe that having a master is pain and torture, but not for me master. Having you as a master and having a Law is a blessing. You are a powerful master you can do anything you want. If you want to kill them all you can, because you are our master.
With love from the dog-man

While reading these chapters the question of why is the dog-man so faithful was brought to my attention. I believe the importance of the dog is how prendick wasn’t meant to be alone even from the beginning of the story. After dr Moreau and Montgomery die, he still have his faithful dog-man. In addition the reason this dog is so faithful is probably because based on reality dog the most faithful animal to men. Although the island had its beautiful view and a dog next to prendick it was like reality yet turning to the dark side of the dog still not being a regular dog and having the creature hyena swine hunting him.

Clue Blog Post

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My snap shot is 146 to the middle of pg.147, “There was nothing for it but courage….. found half a dozen cartridges in his pocket”.

My guiding question was how will Prendick relationship with the beast men change and how will it affect him. This snapshot shows a clue at how Prendick treats these beast people and how he looks at them. It also provides a clue onto how Wells decides to convey the novel through the style of the text. It’s easy to note that Prendick has been having strange thoughts and inferring many things from the beast people but in this snapshot it showed more of his true thoughts and rationalization on how he really saw them. “There was nothing for it but courage”. Even though it doesn’t show any real evidence on how he felt towards them, it was generally just saying that even through his fear he had to do what he had to do to survive and the best way to accomplish that would be to use these beast people and show no signs of doubt. The style also gives us a hint in how the Prendick feels towards the beast men especially since he says “None escape”. Prendick hasn’t recited the prayer with the beast people since the he came back to the enclosure showing not only does he want to keep this Law in place to keep himself safe, he also wants to control these beast people for as long as possible to escape the island and leave these horrors behind.

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.

Clue The Island of Dr.Moreau

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The theme of distinction between men and animal has been brought up throughout the story multiple time. Prendick sides with the fact that animals are animals no matter if you try to scientifically transform them into a human creation. While Montgomery thought are opposite and felt as if he can relate to these beast men. A snapshot that I look closely on said, “Every now and then I would come upon one or other running on toes and fingertips, and quite unable to recover the verticals attitude. They held things more clumsily; drinking by suction, feeding by gnawing, grew commoner everyday. I realized more keenly than ever what Moreau had told me about the “stubborn beast flesh.” they were reverting, and reverting very rapidly” (159). This snapshot offers a clue to my guiding question which is does this island hold a connection between itself and the “real world” outside of it? Now reading this I believe it does because these beast went back to their natural instincts of their animal side once they felt has if there were no higher power you could say to order them around. It’s just like us human now if it weren’t for beliefs or government or any of those things we would fall back to what we know best and that is survival. This is the point where it all comes back to where these beast just a failure from the start were they even worth putting in the effort to be seen as humans. I think yes with the way things were going before Dr.Moreau died they had all the rights to be seen as human because just as we got taught from right to wrong by laws they were doing the exact thing. We have more things in common with these beast then we thing we do.