The Great Gatsby Dialectical Journal

Sequence- The puma was getting tortured once again by Moreau. When the puma hits Moreau in the head and escapes. Prendick saw an awful face rushing upon me, not human, not animal, but hellish, brown, seamed with red branching scars, red drops starting out upon it, and the lidless eyes ablaze. Prendick was just outside the door and was pushed violently by the puma consequently, breaking his left arm. Moreau chased the puma with his pistol.
Conflict- Moreau didn't return back to the enclosure that night. Therefore, Montgomery knew something was wrong.
Theme- Moreau was right when he said to puma would be different then the other beast people he had created. he was right. However, it was not favorable to him.
Chapter Eighteen: The Finding of

Moreau
Plot
Sequence- Some of the creatures Montgomry and Prendick that Moreau is dead. Evidence on page 157. They found the body of Moreau and the puma. Evidence on page 159.
Conflict- The beast asked if their was still a law they had to follow now that Moreau was dead. Evidence page 158. Prendrick answered saying Moreau is not dead but has taken a different form and that he will always be watching them from above. The creatures replied, “He is great, he is good” (pg. 158).
Symbolism- Moreau’s creations were not his triumphs but his ultimate undoing.
Chapter Nineteen: Montgomery’s “Bank Holiday”
Plot
Sequence- Montgomery had been under the influence of Moreau’s personality while on the island.

Now that Moreau is dead Montgomery is unsure on his purpose on the island. he morns the death of a friend. Montgomery knows he cant leave the island he calls his home. He has nothing left in society. All he has is the beast people he has grown to care about. Montgomery starts to drink with some beast. While Prendick was looking for things to help his escape there was screaming and Montgomery called for him. When Prendick arrived at the beach he shot to the sky and scared some beast people back to the jungle. Montgomery was laying on his back, a dead brute still had his claws around his throat. M’ling was dead on the ground his throat was bitten open. Two other beast on the ground as well. While attending Montgomery the enclosure was on fire from the lamp Prendick accidentally dropped. Prendick tried to find the boats on the beach but they were gone Montgomery sent them on fire so that they couldn't return to

society.
Conflict- Prendick comes up with a plan for the future of the island and it’s remaining inhabitance.

Prendick thought,“In the morning I would gather some provisions in the dingey, and after setting fire to the pyre before me, push out into the desolation of the high sea once more. I felt that for Montgomery there was no help; that he was, in truth, half akin to these Beast Folk, unfitted for human kindred” (pg. 138).
Montgomery died on pg 141
Chapter Twenty: Alone With The Beast Folk
Plot
Sequence- Prendick was now alone with the beast. He tells the beast people to take the dead bodies to the ocean.
Conflict- Prendick remembered what Montgomery and Moreau once said, “the reason of Montgomery’s despair. ‘they will change,’ he said; ‘they are sure to change.’ And Moreau, what was it that Moreau had said? The stubborn beast-flesh grows day by day back again.’” There was no food.
Character- Prendick wants to kill the Hyena-swine because it was a threat.
Chapter Twenty-One: The Reversion of The Beast Folk

Plot
Sequence- the dog man awakens Prendick and showed his loyalty calling him master
Conflict- the beast people are saying the master is dead. The Other with the Whip is dead. That Other who walked in the Sea is as we are. We have no Master, no Whips, no House of Pain, any more. Pg 152. Prendick went to the creatures hut and tales to the beast people. Prendick shared a friendly tolerance to the little pink sloth creature, the monkey man and his canine friend. the creature remained to follow the law. However, “It was about May when I first distinctly perceived a growing difference in their speech and carriage, a growing coarseness of articulation, a growing disinclination to talk. Then I would come upon one or another running on toes and finger-tips, and quite unable to recover the vertical attitude. They held things more clumsily; drinking by suction, feeding by gnawing, grew commoner every day. I realised more keenly than ever what Moreau had told me about the ‘stubborn beast- flesh.’ They were reverting, and reverting very rapidly. The tradition of the Law was clearly losing its force.
Sloth creature led Prendick to the Hyena-swine which killed his dog friend his only friend. Prindick killed it.
Prendick tried making a raft but was unsuccessful. One day he say a boat with two died men. the boat got stranded in the westward ruins. three beast folk approched him and Prendick got on the boat and didn't turn back. he collected water, fruits, and rabbits for his departure.
Symbolism: The beast people did not follow the law for long after the death of Moreau.The creatures became creatures again.
Chapter 22: The Man Alone
Setting- The sea was silent, the sky was silent. I was alone with the night and silence. Prendick had no desire to return to men. On the third day he was picked up by a brig from Apia to San Francisco. captain nor the mate would believe my story, Once in London Prendick had and illusion that the people were also beast in some way. He felt separated from man kind he wanted to be alone.
Symbolism- There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must nd its solace and its hope. I hope, or I could not live.
Theme- I could not persuade myself that the men and women I met were not also another Beast People, animals half wrought into the outward image of human souls, and that they would presently begin to revert,—to show first this bestial mark and then that.
The themes in the book are pain, cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, and human interference with nature.