The Island Of Dr. Moreau Analysis

H.G. Wells ' The Island of Dr. Moreau beautifully incorporates the notion that "mother" nature, in its natural and native form, has a female tendency while everything invented takes on male characteristics. Women are often related to nature because they are the life bringers. There is nothing more natural or more feminine than the process of childbirth, and nature in general is often considered the paramount maternal figure and we are all her children. Everything else is appropriately defined as man-made, and thus unnatural. This concept is evident throughout The Island of Dr. Moreau by Wells ' choice of main characters, specifically the doctor himself and the Beast-woman that escapes towards the end. Dr. Moreau is set up to be the main decision maker in the story, since he is the one altering animals into half-creature half-human hybrids through barbaric, unrelenting surgeries in his "House of Pain". Wells also uses names, descriptions, and the actions of the characters in the story to portray women in a negative light throughout it and to give the reader a glimpse into Dr. Moreau 's views …show more content…
Moreau is unsurprisingly, a female. The puma escapes from Dr. Moreau 's House of Pain on page 162, and it is at this point that everything starts going truly wrong for the men of the island. The puma is the only important female character of the novel, and it is that very fact that speaks volumes as to the importance of her gender. She is a woman, and it is her choice of escaping and fighting back against Dr. Moreau 's, or God 's, unnatural intervention that brings nature 's course full circle and truly reveals Dr. Moreau as a false God. The puma represents nature fighting to return to it 's natural, unaltered form so it is very telling that the puma is not only a female in the story that brings about the end, but the only female in the story