The Island of Doctor Moreau as a means to explain and critique (examine from a critical perspective) H. G. Wells’ ideas about human and/or animal nature. This requires you to ‘work outward’ from one piece of text and draw out all its significance, drawing connections from the passage to the text as a whole. Even though you are being asked to center your discussion of the text on one single passage, you may certainly draw in other quotes and reference other passages and aspects of the text. Choose a passage that offers rich matter for analysis and in which several threads of thought about human and/or animal nature come together.
