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Questions:

1. Discuss in a brief essay the ethics of experimentation and vivisection. Is Doctor Moreau pursuit of knowledge unethical? What is implied by his experimentation? Should the story be read as a cautionary tale about scientific progress?

2. Discuss and analyze in a brief essay-answer the blurred Lines between human and beast in The Island of Doctor Moreau. How are animal instincts repressed? If so, why must they be repressed? How and why might the Beast People be described at grotesque?

3. Question Explain and Discuss the following quote from Chapter 8:

"The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I known such pain was in the next room, and had it been dumb, I believe-I have thought since-I could have stood it well enough. It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us."

4. Explain and Discuss the following quote from Chapter 14:

"Then I am a religious man, Prendick, as every sane man must be. It may be, I fancy, that I have seen more of the ways of this world's Maker than you,-for I have sought his laws, in my way, all my life, while you, I understand, have been collecting butterflies. And I tell you, pleasure and pain have nothing to do with heaven or hell."

5. Explain and Discuss the following quote from Chapter 16:

"I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world when I saw it suffering the painful disorder of this island. A blind Fate, a vast pitiless mechanism, seemed to cut and shape the fabric of existence and I, Moreau (by his passion for research), Montgomery (by his passion for drink), the Beast People with their instincts and mental restrictions, were torn and crushed, ruthlessly, inevitably, amid the infinite complexity of its incessant wheels."