Human Experimentation In The Island, By H. G. Wells
The world has come far with advancements in technology and the ability to overcome problems we face daily. The human brain is an endless path of discovery that centuries later we still haven't understood its potential, The human brain has lead us to find cures for diseases and eradicate problems like funding education for the public masses and as broad and amazing as helping one another. But with our knowledge of so much and our slowly growing ability to achieve more and more everyday, what becomes the point when we should say stop? i'm not talking the ability to make a hoverboard i'm talking human experimentation. At what point do scientists cross the line for what is safe to do to humans just for the better benefit and comfort of people?
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G. Wells. On the island, Dr.Moreau does experimentations on all different types of animals creating beast like men that are viewed as creepy and unsettling to Prendick the character that gets picked up and brought to the island. Throughout the story Prendick sees how a man with a mind for re-inventing the human body can be very disgusting, this can be related to science today. We are very capable of growing body parts and organs to help someone that may have been in an accident but what happens to someone that wants to experiment further? What happens when we take science beyond helping people to be normal again and use science to create a flawless person? Although some might see this as a beneficial breakthrough into helping humans live, it really isn't, The goal of science is to help people restore normal functionality to body parts or organs that are no longer functioning as intended but how do we regulate scientists from going beyond that. In the story Dr.Moreau has thousands of different creatures that have been handmade on his island all for his own benefit, he has basically gone mad with his knowledge of human adaptation and as prendick states “A horrible fancy came into my head that Moreau, after animalising these men, had infected their dwarfed brains with a kind of deification of himself.”(88) Scientists can't be allowed to go beyond the knowledge of helping someone and ruining the randomness of human
G. Wells. On the island, Dr.Moreau does experimentations on all different types of animals creating beast like men that are viewed as creepy and unsettling to Prendick the character that gets picked up and brought to the island. Throughout the story Prendick sees how a man with a mind for re-inventing the human body can be very disgusting, this can be related to science today. We are very capable of growing body parts and organs to help someone that may have been in an accident but what happens to someone that wants to experiment further? What happens when we take science beyond helping people to be normal again and use science to create a flawless person? Although some might see this as a beneficial breakthrough into helping humans live, it really isn't, The goal of science is to help people restore normal functionality to body parts or organs that are no longer functioning as intended but how do we regulate scientists from going beyond that. In the story Dr.Moreau has thousands of different creatures that have been handmade on his island all for his own benefit, he has basically gone mad with his knowledge of human adaptation and as prendick states “A horrible fancy came into my head that Moreau, after animalising these men, had infected their dwarfed brains with a kind of deification of himself.”(88) Scientists can't be allowed to go beyond the knowledge of helping someone and ruining the randomness of human