8/8/2019 How does H.G. Wells Make Prendick's Stay on Moreau's Island Seem So Terrifying?

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How does H.G. Wells make Prendicks experiences on MoreausIsland so terrifying?

This is an essay task that will test how well you can analyse the

novel so far. You need to show:1. That you have understood the novel, its characters and plot2. That you can analyse language imaginatively and in depth3. That you can make connections, exploring how ideas link

together in powerful ways

In this essay, you must write about the following three points:1. The island itself and its setting2. The inhabitants of the island3. Moreau and Montgomery

4. How the use of first-person narrative makes the novel moreterrifying.

A good essay will:

Start with an introduction that

Introduces the topics that the essay will cover

Does not use the words In the novel The Island of DrMoreau or In this essay I will

Include four paragraphs, each one exploring three or fourshort quotations in detail

Finish with a conclusion which brings all the essay togetherand gives an answer to the question

A good paragraph:

Moreau himself seems to be a terrifying man of exceptional cruelty and

strength, who will stop at nothing to achieve his scientific goals. Prendicks

mention of a flayed dog which was found at Moreaus laboratory in England

demonstrates at the cruelty of his experiments, especially as the vivisection is

not explained and no justification is given for skinning an animal alive. Moreau

also seems possessed by his work, who says only that Prendick will ruin the work

of a lifetime when he tries to prevent him carrying out more inhuman work on

the puma. What makes Moreau perhaps most threatening, though, is that he

lifted Prendick as if he were a child, suggesting that he possesses not only

great determination, but also almost superhuman powers. In comparison with

the drunken captain of the schooner, and the weak Montgomery, Moreau seems

to dominate the island like a god.