Jairo.Escudero 07/12/2012
More to it than just science fiction.
As in The Time Machine, with the meekly Eloi and the menacing Morlocks, Wells also creates here strange beings: the Beast People, created by Dr. Moreau. Like in The Time Machine he provides a metaphor for society, only in this case, Moreau, Montgomery and Prendick himself are the powerful, while the Beast People are the workers, who live in fear, must obey Laws they don't understand, and must do as they are told. When Moreau dies, Prendick reverts to "religion" by saying that Moreau didn't actually die and will come back. Anything to keep the masses in line. Finally, violence and killings are used to control the Beast People. Once back to "civilization", Prendick writes: "I see faces, keen and bright; others dull or dangerous; others, unsteady, insincere — none that have the calm authority of a reasonable soul. I feel as though the animal was surging up through them; that presently the degradation of the Islanders will be played over again on a larger scale." A fear I guess we should still share today.