Monsters in our Closets
When we are young, our parents come into our room and tell us to calm down, there is no monster in our closet, nor is there one under our bed. But what they never told us is that we are actually living amongst the monsters. In the book “Island of Dr. Moreau”, we see many different types of monsters: a) the cliché monster, the monster little kids fear, and b) the monster that lives amongst us in society that we don’t notice until it’s too late, the monsters adults fear. In the book, Edward Prendick is both the little kid and adult, he fears the beast men on the island and the actual men, Montgomery and Moreau. But by the end of the book Prendick knows who the real monsters are, the men.
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Moreau, he is obsessed with creating the perfect human. In trying to accomplish this goal, Moreau invested his time in vivisection. Vivisection is the practice of performing operations on live animals for the purpose of scientific research. In Moreau’s case, he started to mutilate animals, while they are awake, “the crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice” (page 26). For a large part of the book, Moreau is gone operating, usually on the puma. Out of the one hundred and twenty plus animals Moreau had operated on, only 60 remained, the rest had died. He believes he is justified in harming these animals because he will create a new and better type of human that is more civilized. In trying to get the beast that remain to be civilized, the set of laws scares the beast to be their more human self rather than their animal because if the beast break them, they go to the ‘House of Pain’ which means back to the operating room. He is convinced that this would be fine and acceptable within society if there was no pain at all, he was so intent on explaining that pain is not needed that he stab himself in the leg and proceeded to say “Then with men, the more intelligent they become, the more intelligently they will see after their own welfare, and the less they will need the goad to keep them out of danger. I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or …show more content…
It explains how a bystander is just as guilty as a the harming party and even if you believe that you are justified, there are just some things you shouldn’t do. The animals were the innocent party that were wrongfully harmed and will never be accepted in either community, man or
When we are young, our parents come into our room and tell us to calm down, there is no monster in our closet, nor is there one under our bed. But what they never told us is that we are actually living amongst the monsters. In the book “Island of Dr. Moreau”, we see many different types of monsters: a) the cliché monster, the monster little kids fear, and b) the monster that lives amongst us in society that we don’t notice until it’s too late, the monsters adults fear. In the book, Edward Prendick is both the little kid and adult, he fears the beast men on the island and the actual men, Montgomery and Moreau. But by the end of the book Prendick knows who the real monsters are, the men.
“What on earth was he - man or …show more content…
Moreau, he is obsessed with creating the perfect human. In trying to accomplish this goal, Moreau invested his time in vivisection. Vivisection is the practice of performing operations on live animals for the purpose of scientific research. In Moreau’s case, he started to mutilate animals, while they are awake, “the crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice” (page 26). For a large part of the book, Moreau is gone operating, usually on the puma. Out of the one hundred and twenty plus animals Moreau had operated on, only 60 remained, the rest had died. He believes he is justified in harming these animals because he will create a new and better type of human that is more civilized. In trying to get the beast that remain to be civilized, the set of laws scares the beast to be their more human self rather than their animal because if the beast break them, they go to the ‘House of Pain’ which means back to the operating room. He is convinced that this would be fine and acceptable within society if there was no pain at all, he was so intent on explaining that pain is not needed that he stab himself in the leg and proceeded to say “Then with men, the more intelligent they become, the more intelligently they will see after their own welfare, and the less they will need the goad to keep them out of danger. I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or …show more content…
It explains how a bystander is just as guilty as a the harming party and even if you believe that you are justified, there are just some things you shouldn’t do. The animals were the innocent party that were wrongfully harmed and will never be accepted in either community, man or