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The debates and movements for and against vivisection inspired the basic concept of The Island of Dr. Moreau. Influencing these discussions, and also Wells’s story, was the publication of Charles Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection, which suggested that there was nothing exceptional about human beings other than that they had evolved much further than any other species on Earth.
13 de jun. de 2012 · The Island of Dr. Moreau, perhaps the greatest and most disturbing of his “scientific romances,” is an example of his uncompromising art at its best. The plot is straightforward. The shipwrecked Edward Prendick ends up on an island presided over by the once notorious but now discredited surgeon Dr. Moreau, who has dedicated his life to transforming animals into humans by a series of ...
Die Insel des Dr. Moreau. Deutsche Erstausgabe, Bruns, Minden 1904. Die Insel des Dr. Moreau, englischer Originaltitel The Island of Dr. Moreau, ist ein 1896 erschienener phantastischer Roman des englischen Schriftstellers H. G. Wells. Er enthält Elemente der Science-Fiction -, der Horror- und der Abenteuerliteratur .
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977), estrelado por Burt Lancaster e Michael York; Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau, um documentário de 2014 sobre o desenvolvimento e as filmagens da atualização de 1996 da The Island of Dr. Moreau; Referências
Once on land, Prendick spots odd creatures and is informed that the island is a sort of “biological station.” Later he learns that the white-haired man is named Moreau. Prendick realizes that he is Dr. Moreau, a “notorious vivisector” who was forced to leave England some years earlier after his shocking experiments were publicized.
The Island of Dr. Moreau. Herbert George Wells. Garden City Publishing Company, 1896 - Animal experimentation - 249 pages. Edward Prendick, a young naturalist, is shipwrecked on the Pacific island where Doctor Moreau, once-famous vivisector, is "humanizing" animals. Strange newly-moulded creatures inhabit the island and some have been made into ...
29 de fev. de 2012 · Books. The Island of Dr. Moreau. H. G. Wells. Courier Corporation, Feb 29, 2012 - Fiction - 112 pages. Considered one of the fathers of science fiction, H. G. Wells (1866–1946) brought enormous inventiveness and an underlying social vision and moral concern to his strange tales and bizarre imaginings. A student of Darwinian biology, he formed ...
