Dr Moreau Setting

Throughout the story of The Island of Dr Moreau, the setting changes gradually overtime. When the story first starts, we find our narrator Edward Prendick adrift in a dinghy located near the Ocean of the Pacific. The Lady Vain, the ship Mr. Prendick was on collided with a derelict when “she” had sunk. Fortunately, he finds himself in a small cabin after awakening from slumber. At this point, the narrator discovers he is aboard the lpecacuanha owned by Captain Davis. Observing the deck of the ship, which arguably seems like a zoo “littered with scraps of carrot, shreds of green stuff, and indescribable filth”. Finally the schooner arrives at its destination: The Island of Moreau. Although the island is actually unnamed, as Montgomery mentioned,

This is where provided information about the setting, characters, and most importantly, the mystery of the island is. Roughly during the middle of the story, Prendick finds out that Moreau is experimenting on a Puma, who had mistaken for a man. This is where things start to get interesting. Shocked at what he sees, Prendick thinks it best to stay as far away from Moreau as possible, leading him deeper into the island. Eventually leading up to the rising action, he ends up at the Beast Folk’s village, confronts Moreau, demands an explanation for everything, and hunts the Leopard Man. The turning point of the story, is greatest when the Puma escapes, Moreau searches for it, and the two end up dead in the process. This is seemingly what the author was trying to foreshadow. The events that occur after this would be categorized as the falling action. Now that Moreau is dead, Prendick commits to the idea of leaving the island for good and taking his chances out in the sea. At this point, everyone starts dying. Montgomery, M’ling, Dog Man, The Sayer of The Law, Hyena-Swine are all dead. All the other grotesque brutes will either die or go back their old animal ways. The only question that remains is Prendick’s