ENG 503 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: The Dispossessed, Moral Authority, Utopia
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Pg 75: the study of nature vs pg 74: don"t kill it re: the beast man. 95: prendick judging dr moreau on the pain: creature"s lives and, had any intelligible object . 115: the hyena swine"s who are you? challenge to prendick. 119: presently i will slay them all thinks prendick (confusing what montgomery thought prendick would do humanely. His social isolation: a loner and individualist. Defined as human being all but entirely through his work. Moreau is finally destroyed by his science, like griffin. Indeed, his science proves such a menace to the existing social order that readers wonder in each text if. Can"t talk to prendick very long, obsessed with science, affects his mind, delusions of grandeur. Wells" ambivalence about scientific progress: his fiction often looks toward the eventual extinction of our species and ponders if that is such a bad thing . Moreau is cold, isolated, largely and completely obsessed and compassionless.