Doctor Moreau Chapter Summary

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The book starts being narrated by a man named Edward Prendick, shipwrecked in the ocean . A boat that passes takes him aboard, and a doctor named Montgomery revives him. He explains to Prendick that they go to an island without name where he works, and on board there are animals that travel with the. When they arrive at the island both the captain of the ship and the doctor Montgomery refuse to take Prendick with them, with the stand ship crew puts it on a lifeboat to abandon it, then they feel guilt and shame and return by the. After a few days, Montgomery presented to Doctor Moreau, a cold and precise man who conducts research on the island. After that they end up lowering the animals they take Prendick to a closed room. Prendick is exceedingly curious about exact investigations of Moreau in the island, especially for when …show more content…

After not having an explanation, Prendick finally gives in and goes to sleep. Prendick awakes the next morning with the previous night activities fresh in his mind. Seeing that the door of the laboratory has been unlocked, when it comes to the lab you see some strange things and believes that Moreau makes surgery the human living and that it is the proximo.entra in panic and flees into the jungle, where he meets a monkey man which leads him to a colony of half human and half-animal beings. the leader recites him a strange law called Act that involves prohibitions against bestial behaviour to Moreau. Suddenly, Moreau comes in the colony, and Prendick escapes by the part back in the jungle. He comes to the ocean, where he plans to drown rather than allow Moreau to experiment on it. Moreau and Montgomery face it, however, Moreau explains that the creatures are animals who has vivisected to resemble human beings. Prendick yields and speaks with Moreau, who explains that he has been on the island for eleven years, trying to make a complete transformation from animal to