#edward prendick

[plain-belly-sneetch]

Once again I have finished a Victorian-era piece of classic literature and am So Normal about it. This time it is The Island of Doctor Moreau, and can we talk about Prendick's unnamed Victorian therapist? I am not even joking:

My guy went through a year of Certified Fresh horrors, and got psychiatrich counselling afterwards; from a man who went, "Who was on the island with you? Oh. Oh. The flayed dog guy? He's still-Oh, he's not? Okay. Take a seat, buddy, let's see what we can do about that PTSD." I am enamored.

[doomsdayoption]

If you haven't yet, please read The Island Of Doctor Moreau by Wells. The narrator is funny as hell and there's VERY doomed yaoi.

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"…THE REST STOOD SILENT -- WATCHING. THEY MAY ONCE HAVE BEEN ANIMALS; BUT I NEVER BEFORE SAW AN ANIMAL...."

PIC INFO: Spotlight on cover art to the 1968 paperback reprint of classic "science romance" novel, "The Island of Dr. Moreau," originally published in 1896 and written by the prophetic and prolific H.G. Wells. Artwork by William Douglas Rosa (1932-1977).

PIC #2: Resolution at 810x1367 -- Isolated cover artwork and/or illustration, also by WDR.

"The knot of Beast Men, still wondering, stood back among the trees. I passed them serenely as possible. One started to follow me, but retreated again when Montgomery cracked his whip. The rest stood silent -- watching. They may once have been animals; but I never before saw an animal trying to think."

-- EDWARD PRENDICK, from "The Island of Doctor Moreau" (1896), by H.G. Wells

Sources: www.biblio.com/book/island-dr-moreau-paperback-masterpiece-library/d/1032681319 & eBay.

[professionalmoreauhater]

night. because if it was a good night id be watching an accurate adaptation of the island of dr moreau

[mole-nend]

If there's a Dr. Moreau Fandom here somehow, I'm on my knees begging

[nifefights]

The Island of Dr Moreau, by vyoletzjin.

[doctoranddarktor]

The Island of Dr. Moreau - M'ling and Edward Prendick

I've never draw original furry design before...

[bluepeachllamazonk]

So I started reading the Island of dr Moreau and now i have thoughts about emotional/instinctive and rational/cognitive morality.

Prendick is someone who has a strong emotional conception of morality (suffering when he hears the pumas, but saying he wouldn't if he didn't hear them). But rationally he doesn't care about its suffering.

So what he does to avoid the pain caused by his emotional affection is go away so he doesn't hear it anymore. He doesn't even consider helping.

Doctor Seward on the other hand seems to have little to no emotional or instinctive conception of right and wrong. Instinctively, he sees no problem with feeding kittens to a patient. But rationally he sees the problem, and that's why he doesn't do it. He may not have the immediate instinctive reaction but he has a very strong understanding of what is right and wrong, even though he sometime struggles to act on it.

So yeah i love to the island of dr Moreau shows how an instinctive knowledge of right and wrong doesn't make one a good person, and comparing it to Jack who doesn't have that instinct and still ultimately acts the right way (at least in the absolute majority of situations and more than Prendick does) because he has a rational conception of right and wrong.