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The Mutilation Of Society

The Mutilation of Society
No matter how we perceive ourselves, human beings are still animals. However the difference between us and the animals that walk on all four, is that we have laws that don't allow us to go back to the days when we struggled everyday for survival. The Island of Dr. Moreau can be compared with Lord of the Flies to answer the question, are humans generally good or bad? After the death of Dr. Moreau, the creatures' retrogression represents man's savagery as they take part in the survival of the fittest. Finally Dr. Moreau represents what happens to humans when they have too much power; his obvious god complex makes him feel justified in the fact that he is mutilating animals that have existed for longer than humans have.
The Island of Dr. Moreau, in my opinion uses the beasts to show that human nature truly is evil. As in Lord of the Flies, when civil rule is taken away from humans we go back to our animal instincts. Humans since their existence have......


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