Assignment task: The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Island of Doctor Moreau, by H. G. Wells
Chapter 22 - The Man Alone
What is the "terror" of the island that continues to haunt Prendick after his rescue? Use the following quotation from the end of the story to answer the next question. "There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope. I hope, or I could not live. And so, in hope and solitude, my story ends."
In the above quotation, where does Prendick believe man's hope for the future lies if it does not lie in the advancement of science?
Cite incidents from the story to support or refute the following overall theme: Man's sense of morality must keep pace with his scientific advances or these advances will cause man's own destruction.