nd animals are unethical. The scientists who were experimenting on the animals and humans kept them in a locked room. This proves they wanted to keep what they were doing a secret. Dr. Moreau needed to find an island far away from the civilized world because he was afraid that people would not approve of his scientific studies or if they did, they would try to steal them. Wells says the same thing about Dr. Moreau as he said about the Invisible Man. When you isolate your self from the public and experiment with things that may get beyond your control, the results are harmful to your own well-being and that of society.4] I find The Island of Dr. Moreau particularly interesting because one version was filmed on St. Croix. Some of the local people appeared in the film and experienced first-hand some of the experiments that Wells described. Of course, it was all acting, but many people learned about H.G. Wells, the writer, and his vivid imagination because they were involved in the film.The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896) is the most horrifying of Wells novels. It introduces into his fiction the mad or immoral scientist. The doctor is seeking to make animals half human by means of vivisectional surgery, the transplantation of organs and grafts; the pain is vividly described. In Moreaus words, the study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.[4] Wells began to write fantasy fiction to make money. In the latter part of the 19th century, readers were interested in the spine-chillers and prophetic works that predicted the worst. One of the reasons for this interest was the invention of so many things that people did not really understand; the phonograph, the electric light bulb, motor cars with internal combustion engines, the telegraph and telephone. If these mysterious new inventions were possible, many other things could be imagined. There is no question that Wells had an extensive imagination that made this kind ...
