The Island Of Dr Moreau

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I. Synopsis

Edward Prendick was shipwrecked and a passing ship headed for an island rescues him. Arriving on the island, Prendick meets Dr. Moreau who decides to let him stay. One night, Prendick hears the cries of a puma being tortured so he runs into the forest where he encounters beastly men. Prendick seeks an explanation from Montgomery, but when he fails to give a clear answer, Prendick concedes and sleeps it off.

Upon seeing the bandaged human-like creature the next day, Prendick thought Moreau was using vivisecting humans and that he is planning to experiment on him next. Horrified and fearing for his own life, Prendick runs into the forest again and meets an Ape Man who leads him to other man-animal hybrids led by The Sayer of the Law who recites the prohibitions of the island. Moreau arrives and Prendick flees into the ocean to drown himself because he doesn’t want Moreau to experiment on him. Montgomery and Moreau explain to him that the animals are vivisected to resemble humans. Prendick believes this and stays in the island. But one day, Prendick and Montgomery find a bloody dead body of a rabbit. Since eating flesh is against the Law, Moreau had to find the transgressor, which is the Leopard Man. Prendick shoots the Leopard Man out of pity; hence, Moreau gets angry but couldn’t do anything about it anymore.

One day, the puma escapes from the lab and Moreau tries to go after it. Nonetheless, when Prendick tries to find Moreau, he was already dead along with the puma. Montgomery, drunk and out of himself, gives alcohol to the Beast Men which causes them to get wild. Prendick makes an effort to stop him, but Montgomery ignored his advice. Prendick checks out the brawl later at night only to find Montgomery die before him. Prendick escapes the island soon and a ship rescues him; however, when he tells about the island of Dr. Moreau, everyone thinks he lost his mind.

II. Synthesis

ANIMAL CRUELTY

In the book, Moreau performed vivisection on animals numerous times. He would splice certain parts of different animals in order to attain his perfect creature. The puma that Moreau last experimented on was gravely in pain during Prendicks stay on the island. Prendick even cringes when hearing the cries of the puma to the point that he already feels the pain that the puma was suffering.

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