![]() Critics have analyzed Wells's thematic concerns from a variety of perspectives, exploring the novel's religious, mythical, historical, and scientific influences. The subject of a wide range of interpretive study, The Island of Doctor Moreau has been variously characterized as an adventure in the tradition of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, a satire in the spirit of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, and a gothic mystery modeled after Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Often described as a dark and provocative parable akin to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in its depiction of an obsessive scientist meddling with Nature, Wells's novel contemplates the effects of misguided scientific progress on humanity. INTRODUCTIONĪ perennial favorite among young adult readers, The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) has been consistently recognized as a classic work of science fiction. ![]() For further information on his life and career, see CLR, Volume 64. The following entry presents commentary on Wells's novel The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) through 2007. (Full name Herbert George Wells also wrote under the pseudonyms Sosthenes Smith, Walker Glockenhammer, and Reginald Bliss) English novelist, short-story writer, essayist, autobiographer, screenwriter, critic, and nonfiction writer. ![]()
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