The Island Of Dr Moreau Summary

The Island of Dr. Moreau tells the story of strange and horrifying events witnessed by Edward Prendick, an English gentleman who unfortunately gets left by an annoyed captain, after being rescued from the sinking ship, on the Pacific island of Dr. Moreau. Once on the island Prendick is warned to only stay on certain parts of the land. He forgoes the warnings and tries to escape into the jungle anyway when he hears painful screams. During his stay on the mysterious island Prendick discovers Moreau is performing creepy experiments by using vivisection to turn animals into humans. He then becomes lost and gets followed by one of Moreau's mutated human creature hybrids. He nearly escapes his demise by killing the human cat creature with rock
Montgomery mourns with the beast folk but then gets in a fight with one and dies. Prendick settles for living with the Beast Folk as he attempts to build a raft so he can escape. Eventually a ship with two dead men in it appears on the beach. Prendick cleans the boat, gathers supplies, and leaves the next morning. He is picked up by a ship soon after he leaves the island and decides to tell his story to his rescuers but they thinks he is crazy. To prevent himself from being sent away to an asylum he pretends he lost his memory of the previous year. When he returns home he discovers that he feels unsafe around other humans, because he fears they are Beast Folk. He contents himself with solitude and the study of chemistry and astronomy. An item of interest was the topic of vivisection, which made me think of Frankenstein even though there was no animals in that story. The story had me thinking of the ethics of experimenting on animals today. Testing no matter what the benefits to humans we must remember that animals are living beings as well and we can create great things without harming others. Overall the book was great. It had plenty elements of suspense and kept my interest throughout. I would recommend it to