The Main Themes Of Human Nature In The Island Of Doctor Moreau

In the novel The Island of Doctor Moreau the author tells a story of a man who is thrown away from his ship and has no other way out but to accept the help of his strange fellow traveler who lives on a remote island. The main theme of the novel is exploring the human nature, its main characteristics and borders. When the narrator, Pendrick, steps onto the island, he realizes that it is full of different mysterious things. He gets acquainted with Doctor Moreau who with the help of vivisection turns animals into hybrids similar to humans. Doctor Moreau uses the perfect human genes combining with animal DNAs, but the result turns to be different. Beast people do different kinds of things, because they don’t know what is wrong or right. Therefore,

It is only corrupt institutions that make them venal,” human nature is neutral, but seeing cruelty can negatively impact person’s psyche. Modern life offers plenty of various examples supporting the idea. People returning from wars, for instance, some American soldiers who came back to their homes from Vietnam, Afghanistan or Iraq, could not sometimes forget the horrors of the war that continued constantly torturing their mind. Society also did not pay enough attention to their problems and was not supportive enough, so they were quite likely to become aggressive or, on the contrary, close themselves from the outside world and look for relief in alcohol or drugs. However, it does not tell anything about their “basically bad” nature, but only proves that the fact that pain and suffering are very powerful negative factors significantly damaging the human psyche. Wells shows that when the narrator, Pendrick, returns to England, he cannot recover from shock and becomes afraid of people, so he goes to the countryside where he may devote his life to science and experiments (161). The examples of American soldiers and Pendrick show that people turn to be immoral because of social ignorance. So, I believe that people have bad behaviors because of negative outside forces. They do not have constant personalities, because they can be changed easily by their