Honors Blog;The Island of Dr.Moreau by H.G. Wells

The Island of Dr.Moreau, Written by H.G. Wells. Dr.Moreau wanted everything to be perfect, as if it already weren’t, so he used his knowledge to create monster like animals but in his mind that was perfect. In this book the author uses multiple literary devices such as character, point of view and Plot/Conflict.


One literary device in the book, The island of Dr. Moreau written by H.G. Wells, is character. There are three main characters, Dr. Moreau, Montgomery, and Prendick. Prendick an English man and is smart but not as smart as the other characters, Dr.Moreau and Montgomery. He is not really talked much about in the book but you can tell he is one of the characters who is doing his very best to survive on the island. I would Montgomery’s character as puzzled or confused. On the island he was looked down on by Dr. Moreau. In Dr. Moreau’s eyes he was seen as, “imperfect”. He was obsessed with Drinking and having power. Dr. Moreau, in my opinion the most stubborn character. I say that because he was obsessed with perfection and in his opinion everything was imperfect. So he used his science based knowledge to create creature like animals, which really was far off from being perfect. But in Dr. Moreau’s eyes that was seen as perfection.

Point of view was another literary device used in this book. He is obsessed with perfection. Dr. Moreau’s view of the world was imperfect. He finds all the imperfections in man and changes it, by doing what ever to make it perfect. Dr.Moreau looks at the world and sees a lot of flaws. So he does his best to try and get rid of them by creating these creatures like animals. In the end he ends up making matters much worse. When people found out what he done, he felt like he had to separate himself from society. An example would be when Montgomery went off for a walk in the jungle and found humans who looked like hogs. So clearly that was one of Dr. Moreau’s experiments.

The main plot/conflict in this book was believed by Dr. Moreau himself. It was the separation or difference between men and animals. In the book the creature like animals are called by, "travesties". The humans, "mockeries". He had an obsession with the whole Man & Animal separation; I guess he saw it as something he needed to fix.