They were power hungry and ruled them with fear. Moreau, Montgomery, and even Prendick ruled over the creatures with fear and pain. Moreau has rules to keep them in check and “Who breaks the law… goes back to the house of pain”(70). These rules give Moreau power above the animals and he harms whoever doesn’t obey them. When Moreau and Montgomery had died, Prendick worried about losing his grip on ruling over the Beast People for fear of his own safety: “Had I kept my courage up to the level of dawn, had I not allowed it to ebb away in solitary thought, I might have grasped the vacant sceptre of Moreau, and ruled over the Beast People”(91). It is here that Prendick shows that he doesn’t care about treating the Beast People fairly, but only cares about his own life, even though earlier on in the book, he fought for them to be treated fairly: “I went on shouting, I scarcely remember what. That Moreau could be killed; that they were not to be feared”(49). The change in thought through the book leads back to cruelty to the Beast People and Prendick’s only thought of his survival, leaving the rest to fend for themselves. It is this reasoning that proves that the men on the island are the true
They were power hungry and ruled them with fear. Moreau, Montgomery, and even Prendick ruled over the creatures with fear and pain. Moreau has rules to keep them in check and “Who breaks the law… goes back to the house of pain”(70). These rules give Moreau power above the animals and he harms whoever doesn’t obey them. When Moreau and Montgomery had died, Prendick worried about losing his grip on ruling over the Beast People for fear of his own safety: “Had I kept my courage up to the level of dawn, had I not allowed it to ebb away in solitary thought, I might have grasped the vacant sceptre of Moreau, and ruled over the Beast People”(91). It is here that Prendick shows that he doesn’t care about treating the Beast People fairly, but only cares about his own life, even though earlier on in the book, he fought for them to be treated fairly: “I went on shouting, I scarcely remember what. That Moreau could be killed; that they were not to be feared”(49). The change in thought through the book leads back to cruelty to the Beast People and Prendick’s only thought of his survival, leaving the rest to fend for themselves. It is this reasoning that proves that the men on the island are the true