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 "This is a mood"
 Edward is solitary, and still a man of science, investigating chemistry
 and astronomy.
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+Lecture
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+HG Wells calls his stories "scientific romances."
+- Unreliable narrator established by nephew
+- Meduesa = real life
+    - Cannibalism in British imagination
+    - Thin veneer of civilization
+        - Sign of Four: Tonga, Andaman (falsely) believed to be cannibal
+Norms, regulations, taboos (health) vanish in extreme circumstances.
+- Taboos are sometimes derived from medical concerns
+- British court case established that necessity is not enough
+
+Uncanny
+- Deliberately vague term to describe the appalling
+    - Freud: subjective experience reminding its viewer of repressed
+      memories/experiences/desires
+    - Wells implements this in Prendick's fear of M'ling, "forgotten
+      horrors of childhood."
+    - Playing with the line between animal and human
+
+The importance of eyes in Dr Moreau
+- "Eyes are the window to the soul"
+    - Bit cliched, but based on perception that personality correlates
+    - Looking at someone, making eye contact ~ trust
+- The eyes that Wells talks about are mistrusting: M'ling's red eyes are
+  disturbing because they are abnormal and shifty
+    - The cannibalism implied by hunger in the eyes is also about trust:
+      there is limited trust between the men on the boat
+
+Human and animal
+- Prendick's humanity is mixed with animals/beastliness
+    - Falls out of hammock *on all fours*
+    - Food -> "animal comfort"
+    - Shows that the line is a bit blurrier: culture, structure falls
+      back to needs (food, water) that are shared with animals
+    - After Moreau,Montgomery die, Prendick falls into "monster's ways."
+- Prendick believes Moreau to vivisect people.
+    - Vivisecting men violates the laws of human health.
+    - But Prendick is actually convinced it's okay because he sees that
+      Moreau is experimenting on something "inhuman"
+        - Not cruel, Wells explores this cultural rule
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+Vivisection
+- Moreau views his (fancy) vivisection experiments as natural scientific
+  exploration extending standard surgeries
+- Moreau wants to eliminate pain, sees it as inhuman and ignores it
+    - For Prendick, actually makes him realize the humanity of beastfolk
+
+Degeneration
+- Social/biological idea in zeitgeist: fear that evolution doesn't
+  necessarily increase intelligence, complexity
+    - Lead humans "back down the evolutionary ladder"
+    - Corresponds with scientific racism, arguments that urbanization
+      and modernization collapsed traditional morals, crime, disease.
+- Moreau: proto-eugenics
+- Prendick's return to the city hints at sort of humanity's instability 
+
+Health
+- Uses social/cultural, apersonal definition.
+- Criticizes some medical health experiments
+    - Questions about humanity, sacrifice in context of vivisection
+    - Questions science
+Walter Benjamin: "There is no document of civilization [advancement of
+medical science] that is not also a document of barbarism."
+- Pay attention to sacrifices made for science