The Island of Dr. Moreau

Introduction

In the book The Island of Dr. Moreau he has worked out a notion much less intrinsically incoherent, and though impossible, yet not so impossible as to be quite inconceivable. In other words, the impossibility is of a less unworkable order, though it is also much more gruesome. He has taken a few of the leading methods of the modern surgery and exaggerated them in the hands of an accomplished vivisector into a new physiological calculus that enables its professor to transmute various animals into the semblance of man.

Moreover, at present, science fiction scholarship is a tenuous field at best, often misunderstood and unsupported by colleagues who, for all the recent challenges to the literary canon, fail to see any value in the endeavor. It is encouraging, then, to look at the work that has enriched our understanding and appreciation of a literature we love and that lends credibility to the study of science fiction.

Thus, one can say that the try by the author to build a new formation was not perfection and attempt to master one's attributes only adds to the fact that man cannot duplicate perfection which exists in nature.

Discussion

The book explains that the accomplished vivisector described has found a small island in the Pacific far out of the track of ordinary mariners where the author can practice his gruesome manipulations of living organisms without fear of being disturbed. Of course, the real value for literary purposes of this ghastly conception depends on the power of the author to make his readers realize the half-way stages between the brute and the rational creature, with which he has to deal.

However, one can always claim for the book as the first of its kind in this area is a bit of a slam at the edition, although he tries hard to form something unique but is unable to match the nature. There is a difference between the beasts, however; this is altogether a different kind of beast. Book provides Wells's powerful, thinking that represents the most authoritative version scholarship could possibly produce (Wells, 1-139).

It would not be wrong to admit that Mr. Wells succeeded to an extent and captured the mind of readers. However, in this little story he did gave a most fearful vividness to his picture of half-created monsters endowed with a little speech, a little human curiosity, a little sense of shame, and an overgrown dread of the pain and terror which the scientific dabbler in creative processes had inflicted, but the nature is always perfect. There is nothing in Swift's grim conceptions of animalized man and rationalized animals more powerfully conceived than Mr. Wells's description of these deformed and malformed creations of Dr. Moreau, repeating the litany. However, according to human approach it can be, but the nature is always perfect (Wells, 1-139).

Both men wish to assume the mantle of God as creator, yet Moreau chooses to mold his creation from the living. For his part Moreau is not so interested in breathing ...