I read the book The Island of Dr. Mireau. The book starts when Prendick is in a dinghy of the ship the Vain Lady. Prendick is the main character in the book. The Vain Lady had sunk. A ship finds him a takes him along. On the ship Prendick sees a bunch of dogs and rabbits. On the ship is where he meets Montgomery. He is the captain of the shop.
When Prendick gets on the ship he is thirst , burnt and hungry. He gets the care that he needs on the ship. The ship is heading to an island. The dock on the island is a ditch looking thing. They start unloading the cargo and are letting the rabbits out of their cages.
He talks to a guy and he says that the island does not have enough meet. He gets put in a room where he can hear the sound of pain coming from the next room. He leaves the room to explore the island. This is my favorite part of the book. He is walking in trees. Then he sees some thing.
It is by a water pond. It is drinking the water on all fours. He tries to get closer to what he describes as a beast. The beast gets wind of him and takes off. It runs into the under brush and vanishes. Then he comes across a dead rabbit carcass. It was still warm.
He starts to walk on. Then he sees three beasts. He keeps getting closer and closer going as quietly as he can. Then he sees them dancing and chanting.
He finally decides to go back to the house type thing. As he is going though the trees he hears an echo. He stops and sees another pair of feet. He keeps walking then he stops a looks and listens for the beast. He gets a glimpse of the beast. He heads in it direction. He starts yelling for its name. The beats starts to walk away. Then he starts thinking to him self why does it not attack me.
He starts walking back to the house place. He still is being followed by the beast. He starts to run along the beach. The beast is running along the side of the underbrush. It is dark outside now. He starts to get real tired. He finds a good-sized rock and puts it on a hanker chief and raps the hanker chief around the rock.
starts to ride into battle until a man next to him is shot, then he retreats and meets up with
The first representation of the beast that the author portrays is fear. In document A, “... Begin to people the darkness of night and forest with spirits and demons which had previously appeared only in their dreams or fairy tales”. To clarify, the children’s imagination runs rampant without their parents to banish their fears, so their imagination creates something of a beastie-thing. In document
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He did not fear the jungle, and he did not fear the Beast. "Maybe,' he said hesitantly, 'maybe there is a beast . . . maybe it's only us" (89). The Beast takes many forms in the boys' imaginations; once, t...
When the boys initially land on the island, they have tons of fun and are completely carefree. Only a couple of days later though, the “little ‘uns” begin to have dreams about beasts attacking them at night.
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In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan and George Wilson are two characteristics that have very different social backgrounds. Tom Buchanan is an entitled, wealthy, young man who is married to Daisy. Tom lives in West Egg, the location of the “old rich”. George Wilson in a poor man who lives in the valley of ashes with his wife Myrtle. Tom and George are similar yet contrast in their attitudes toward women, the ways they show violence, and their reactions to betrayal.
Tom Buchanan and George Wilson have plenty in common with their attitude pertaining towards women in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald throughout the entire novel gives the audience an insight on his thoughts about the nature of man. Fitzgerald portrays men often treating women harshly throughout his novel. For example, there are many violent acts towards women, a constant presence of dominance, and also ironically Tom and Georges over reactions to being cheated on.
I define Leadership as a person’s ability to guide or shepherd a herd through/to a common destination – a destination of common beliefs. The leader possesses qualities/traits that can persuade others to follow them because they believe and trust them – regardless of their “human” traits and imperfections. The herd trusts that they will stay on course to the common destination.
Tom Buchanan is a character that is very controlling and violent: he serves to show the authority the upper-class has over the lower social classes. As an example, when Tom, Nick, and Myrtle are having a party in the apartment, and Myrtle decides to upset Tom, the narrator details, “Tom Buchanan and Mrs. Wilson stood face to face discussing…whether Mrs. Wilson has any right to mention Daisy’s name. ‘Daisy! Daisy! Daisy!’ shouting Mrs. Wilson. ‘I’ll say it whenever I want to! Daisy! Dai’— Making a short deft movement Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand” (Fitzgerald 41). As shown above, Nick recounts the affair between Tom and Myrtle to the reader. The purpose of this ordeal is to show how Tom symbolizes the controlling and cruel nature of the upper-class. On the other hand, George Wilson is hardworking and loyal to his spouse; these attributes make him lower-class to show how dedicated and devoted people typically are in his social class. Particularly, when Michaelis is talking to George for the first time in the story, the narrator defines, “Generally he is one of these worn-out men: when he wasn’t working he sits on a chair in the doorway and stares at the people and the cars that pass along the road. …He is his wife’s man and not his own” (Fitzgerald 146). As seen
The Island of Dr Moreau, by H.G. Wells, is not an ordinary science fiction novel. It doesn't deal with aliens or anything from outer space, but with biological science that exists on earth. The novel was about a character, Edmund Prendick that gets involved with an island of experimentation. At first glance, this tropical paradise seems idyllic. But deep in the jungles lies a terrifying secret. Moreau and Montgomery have been performing scientific research on human beings and the experiment goes terribly wrong. They have ignored the most fundamental law of the jungle: survival of the fittest. The doctor is seeking to make animals half human by means of vivisectional surgery; the transplantation of organs, and the pain involved is very vividly described. Doctor Moreau succeeds in making some of his man-animals talk and even read, but they tend to revert to the beast. So Moreau continues to try to get the entire animal out, and make a creature of his own. His creatures, which continue to come to their demise, then kill Moreau and finally all die off. When the H.M.S. Scorpion visits the island, there is nothing alive there except for a few "white moths, some hogs and rabbits and some rather peculiar rats."
Moreau and the Puma execute each other. Prendick decides this is more than he can take and is planning to leave the island. He and Montgomery abolishes all the experiments in Dr. Moreau’s lab. However, Montgomery does not want to leave the island so he destroys the ship. Using the wood for the bonfire. After drinking all day and night Montgomery and some of the Beast Folks fight for some unknown reason and Montgomery is badly wounded and later dies and is buried at sea. Prendick, finds a companion in the Dog Man and a Hyena Swine as an enemy, he is afraid of the other beast, folks and spend months trying to construct a raft to leave the island. Eventually the Beast Folks start to transform back to their original being
The idea of a ‘beast’ roaming on the island causes a deep fear in all the boys, a fear many boys pretend to be non-existent. At first the fear is caused by the idea of not being rescued, but in little time that fear transcends into something the boys have a better understanding of how to deal with, a tangible beast to fear. We first see that fear arise when the the little children begin to mention a snake like thing that one boy claims to have seen, the others littles respond by saying things like “‘He saw a the beastie, the snake-thing, and will it come back tonight?’”(36) or “‘He says in the morning it turned into them things like ropes in the trees and hung in the branches…’”(36). The fear consumes the
Aquinas begins one of his arguments for the purpose of knowledge by distinguishing two types of perfection, existence and “perfection belonging to one thing is found in another” (Aquinas, q.2 a. 2) essentially, knowledge. In the first type of perfection, existence, something would be perfect according to its own species. The species, or forms, are perfect from the act of their existence. There are four forms: human, animal, plant and inanimate; each of these are perfect in their existence. Since each species has its own perfection, “the perfect falls short of absolute perfection to the extent that perfection is found in other species” (Aquinas De veritate q.2,a.2), meaning that no form can hold absolute perfection. In this definition of knowledge where knowing conforms to being, an acorn, for example, is perfect when it can grow, reproduce and nourish, reaching its final cause. But it is only the perfection of an oak tree (plant). The oak tree cannot have the perfection of a human. Perfection is limited to each individual form, because the whole of perfection is more perfect than the perfection of each