12/28 The Island of Dr.Moreau chapter 10~15

      Montgomery was waiting anxiously when Prendick came back to his shelter. Prendick tells Montgomery that he was chased by a strange man, and asked Montgomery what was chasing him. Montgomery tells Prendick that it's only his imagination. Exhausted from running away from the stranger, Prendick soon falls asleep. When he woke up, he hears a man's screaming, so he opened the door of the room which the screaming was coming from. In the room, there was Moreau vivisecting a human on a framework. The man was bandaged and there was blood around his injuries. Moreau grabbed Prendicks shoulder and pushed him back into his own room and locked the door. Prendick realized that Moreau was vivisecting humans on this island and realized that he was in danger too. He toured off a side rail of a deck chair for a weapon and escaped from his shelter. Montgomery chased after Prendick but Prendick went inside the jungle until he couldn't hear Montogomery's voice. In the jungle, he meets Ape Man who took Prendick to the huts where other beast men lived too. The Ape man was close to a human more than other beast-men, but he was unintelligent and couldn't have a conversation with Pedrick. In the huts, there were various types of beast men, for example, a sloth-like creature and the Sayer of the Law. The Sayer of the Law said to Prendick that if he wants to stay at the hut, he has to learn the Law. The law prohibited beast-like actions of the beast-men. Even though Prendick went into the deep jungle, Moreau tracked Prendick and finds him in the hut. Prendick escaped from the hut and went to the sea to drown himself rather than being vivisected by Moreau. However, he was too afraid to kill himself. Montgomery convinces Prendick to come back to the shelter by giving him a revolver. Moreau explained that the beast-men weren't humans that were vivisected to become like beasts, but the opposite, the beast-men were beasts that were vivisected to become like humans. Moreau talks about vivisecting of animals and creating humans. However, after the experiment, most beast-men gain their beastly instincts back. Moreau tells Prendick that he won't be harmed but he thought Moreau was wicked. Next morning, M'ling, the servant of Montgomery brought breakfast to Prendick. M'ling is one of the beast-men and he looks very similar to human. Prendick asks Montgomery about the beast-men, and Montgomery told Prendick that they are brainwashing the beast-men by saying that Moreau and Montgomery were invincible. However, the beasts are losing their humane characteristics and becoming more like a beast.
    I enjoyed these chapters because it was exciting and interesting. The strangeness of animals acting like humans and the grotesqueness of their appearances frightened me. The setting that beast-men becoming hostile beasts on an island makes them more horrifying. Moreau made Prendick calm down by explaining that the beast-men were beasts turned into humans, not humans turned into beasts. However, I think turning beasts into humans is as cruel as turning humans into beasts. Moreau's morality is wicked, but he doesn't realize that, which makes him more dangerous and horrifying. I don't understand why Moreau wants to create a beast that behaves like a human. 

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