The Island of Dr. Moreau” is the story of Edward Prendick, an Englishman who finds himself shipwrecked on an island in the South Seas. On the island he discovers the mad Doctor Moreau and a group of beastly creatures that are the result of the Doctor’s experiments. “The Island of Dr. Moreau”, which was meant as a commentary on Darwin’s theory of evolution, is a most uncanny prediction of the ethical issues raised by the science of genetic engineering in modern times and a cautionary tale of the potential dangers of science when left unchecked.
MY THOUGHTS
I thought this book was interesting as it started with mr Prendick being on a dinghy at sea as the boat he was on crashed into another and he is rescued by another boat and looked after by mr Montgomery who works with doctor Moreau and finds and brings the animals back to their island to be experimented on. When they reach their destination at first Mr Montgomery says that Mr Prendick can not go with him but the captain of the ship says he isn’t allowed to stay on board either so the captain and his men cast Mr Prendick off in his dinghy they first found him in then after speaking with doctor Moreau his creatures who are in the boat with Mr Montgomery decide to row their boat over to get him and take him to their island until he can get picked up by another boat which only comes once a year. He stays with Doctor Moreau and Mr Montgomery where they live on the island and encounters the animals who have been experimented on by Doctor Moreau over time. I would hate to think if there was really someone who was actually doing this somewhere in the world as it sounds barbaric what was done to the animals to try and make them more human like.
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