![]() Prendick lives with the Beast Folk on the island for months after the deaths of Moreau and Montgomery. With no chance of saving any of the provisions stored in the enclosure, Prendick realizes that during the night Montgomery has also destroyed the only boats on the island. ![]() At the same time, the compound burns down because Prendick has knocked over a lamp. Prendick resolves to leave the island, but later hears a commotion outside in which Montgomery dies after a scuffle with the Beast Folk. Montgomery breaks down and decides to share his alcohol with the Beast Folk. Moreau pursues it, but the two end up killing each other. But one day, the puma rips free of its restraints and escapes from the lab. but can do nothing about the situation.Īs time passes, Prendick becomes inured to the grotesqueness of the Beast Folk. Moreau is furious that Prendick killed the Leopard-Man. It was also the Hyena-Swine, the next most dangerous Beast Man on the island. Prendick also believes that although the Leopard-Man was seen breaking several laws such as drinking water bent down like an animal, chasing men (Prendick), and running on all fours, the Leopard-Man was not solely responsible for the deaths of the rabbits. Eventually the group corners him in some undergrowth, but Prendick takes pity and shoots him in order to spare him from the vivisection. Moreau's compound for more painful sessions of vivisection, the Leopard-Man flees. Moreau calls an assembly of the Beast Folk and identifies the Leopard-Man (the same one that chased Prendick the first time he wandered into the jungle) as the transgressor. Since eating flesh and tasting blood are strong prohibitions, Dr. One day, Prendick and Montgomery encounter a half-eaten rabbit. Moreau regards the pain he inflicts as insignificant, and an unavoidable side effect in the name of his scientific experiments. He explains that while he is getting closer to perfection, his experiments have a habit of reverting to their animal form. Moreau explains to him that he has been on the island for eleven years and has been striving to make a complete transformation from animal to human. Prendick returns to the enclosure where Dr. Moreau explains that the creatures called the Beast Folk were not formerly men, but rather animals. He makes for the ocean where he plans to drown himself rather than allow Dr. Moreau bursts into the colony looking for Prendick, but Prendick escapes to the jungle. Their leader is a large gray thing named the Sayer of the Law who has him recite a strange litany called the Law that involves prohibitions against bestial behavior and praise for Moreau. He flees into the jungle where he meets an Ape-Man who takes him to a colony of similarly half-human/half-animal creatures. Moreau has been vivisecting humans and that he is the next test subject. Seeing that the door to Moreau's operating room has been left unlocked, he walks in to find a humanoid form lying in bandages on the table before he is ejected by a shocked and angry Dr. Prendick awakes the next morning with the previous night's activities fresh in his mind. After failing to get an explanation, Prendick finally gives in and takes a sleeping draught. When he returns to the enclosure and questions Montgomery, Montgomery refuses to be open with him. As his pursuer bears down on him, Prendick manages to stun him with a stone and observes the pursuer is a monstrous hybrid of animal and man. He panics and flees and the figure chases. As he walks back to the enclosure, he suddenly realizes he is being followed by a figure in the jungle. While he wanders, he comes upon a group of people who seem human but have an unmistakable resemblance to hogs. Prendick gathers that Dr Moreau is performing a painful experiment on the animal, and its anguished cries drive Prendick out into the jungle. The next day, Dr Moreau begins working on a puma. Prendick remembers that he has heard of Dr Moreau, formerly an eminent physiologist in London whose gruesome experiments in vivisection had been publicly exposed. It is explained that ships rarely pass the island so Prendick will be housed in an outer room of an enclosed compound. Seeing that the captain has abandoned Prendick, Montgomery takes pity and rescues him. Despite this, the captain leaves Prendick in a dinghy, after unloading Montgomery and his animals and sails away. However, Montgomery explains that he will not be able to host Prendick either. In addition, the ship is transporting a number of animals which belong to Montgomery.Īs the ship approaches the island, the captain demands Prendick leave the ship with Montgomery. Prendick also meets a grotesque bestial native named M'ling who appears to be Montgomery's manservant. ![]() A passing ship takes him aboard and a man named Montgomery revives him. ![]() The Island of Doctor Moreau is the account of one Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked Englishman with a scientific education.
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