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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">The Island of Doctor Moreau (Unabridged) - H.G. Wells</h1>
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2014-12-09
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/h-g-wells/">#h.g. wells</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/fantasy/">#fantasy</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29981.The_Island_of_Doctor_Moreau">GoodReads Summary</a>:
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While this riveting tale was intended to be a commentary on evolution, divine
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creation, and the tension between human nature and culture, modern readers
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familiar with genetic engineering will marvel at Wells’s prediction of the
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ethical issues raised by producing “smarter” human beings or bringing back
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extinct species. These levels of interpretation add a richness to Prendick’s
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adventures on Dr. Moreau’s island of lost souls without distracting from what
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is still a rip-roaring good read.</p>
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★★★★☆
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<p>What brought me to "The Island of Doctor Moreau" was the movie with Marlon
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Brando. Yup, you read that right: It was the catastrophic (by IMDB comments)
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movie that made me read the book.</p>
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<p>For all that I can remember, the movie goes to explore the fact that some
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people want to be Gods of others. It explores much of our egocentrism, how we
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find outselves better than anyone else and such (but my memory could be fading
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after all this time).</p>
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<p>The book, on the other hand, goes in a way more simpler and way more
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interesting concept: our intellect vs our instincts.</p>
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<p>Moreau turns animals into anthropomorphic beings, including changes in the
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brain to allow them talk and understand most basic stuff. But something keeps
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bringing their instincts back, to the point that they lose their "humanity"
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and revert to... animals. From that point, from that basic premise, Wells
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explores what it is to be a human and what it is to be a beast.</p>
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<p>The best way to surmise the whole thing is this little gem in the very end of
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the book:</p>
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<p>I, Moreau (by his passion for research), Montgomery (by his passion for
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drink), the Beast People with their instincts and mental restrictions, were
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torn and crushed, ruthlessly, inevitably, amid the infinite complexity of
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its incessant wheels.</p>
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