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- Title
Monkey in the Mirror: The Science of Professor Higgins and Doctor Moreau.
- Authors
Otis, Laura
- Abstract
This essay presents an analysis of George Bernard Shaw's play "Pygmalion" and H. G. Wells' novella "The Island of Dr. Moreau." Both works were deemed to imply the difficulty or impossibility of Salvation Army founder William Booth's formulaic tales on how degraded workers recovered their humanity after they taken back across a boundary between animal and human by problematizing the animal/human divide. It was noted that in both novella and play, self-centered scientists tried to transform animals into people without considering the pain of the process and how these creatures will live after they were transformed.
- Subjects
PYGMALION (Play : Shaw); ISLAND of Dr. Moreau, The (Book : Wells); SHAW, Bernard, 1856-1950; WELLS, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946; HUMANITY; HUMAN-animal relationships; BOOTH, William, 1829-1912
- Publication
Twentieth Century Literature (Twentieth Century Literature), 2009, Vol 55, Issue 4, p485
- ISSN
0041-462X
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1215/0041462X-2009-1003