The ship is transporting a number of animals which belong to Montgomery. Prendick also meets a grotesque bestial native named M'ling who appears to be Montgomery's manservant. A passing ship called Ipecacuanha takes him aboard and a man named Montgomery revives him. 5 The Island of Doctor Moreau in popular cultureĮdward Prendick is an Englishman with a scientific education who survives a shipwreck in the southern Pacific Ocean.
It has been adapted to film and other media on many occasions. The novel is the earliest depiction of the science fiction motif " uplift" in which a more advanced race intervenes in the evolution of an animal species to bring the latter to a higher level of intelligence. The Island of Doctor Moreau is a classic work of early science fiction and remains one of Wells's best-known books.
Wells described it as "an exercise in youthful blasphemy." The novel deals with a number of philosophical themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, and human interference with nature. He is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick who is a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat. The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H.
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