'A Comparative Analysis of H.G. Wells’ Island Essay\r'

'H. G. rise’ The Island of Doctor Moreau and Elie Wiesel’s Night ar strikingly resembling computes of modern assaul quiz and in tenderness that venture seemingly civilized societies. What is revealing however is that Wells’ novel is an entirely fictional work which proposes to hit the books the effects of the advancement of science and technology in the absence of solid ethical principles, while Wiesel’s work is an autobiographical account of the author’s experiences in several submerging camps, during the Holocaust.\r\nThe similarity amidst the experiences of the two narrators points to the inherent brutality of man. A proportional analysis of the two flora exposes sympathetic acculturation as a myth rather than a reality. Wiesel’s grim, nightmarish experience in the concentration camp almost surpasses the horror of Well’s fantastical island. Man is debunked as a savage, wight- wish beast whose acts prove to be fifty- fifty more than frighten and unimaginable than those of animal(prenominal)s. The horrors produced by Doctor Moreau and by Hitler argon equ all(prenominal)y unbelievable.\r\n magical spell animal behavior is characterized wholly by instinctual cruelty urged by the necessity of survival, human cruelty exemplified by the experiments of Moreau and by Hitler’s butchery of six million Jews, is at once more perilous and more disturbing. In man, the animal instincts be paired with reason and imagination, just as in the signic hybrids created by Moreau, and thus the potency of sinister increases tremendously. The two works start off from similar premises. The cruel and unprincipled experiments concocted by Doctor Moreau imply place on a secluded island with a symbolic name: Noble’s Isle.\r\nIn order to improve human genetics, Moreau performs vivisections and other frighten experiments on various animals, attempting to create a new, greatest race of hybrids. His expe riments are symbolic because they draw direction to man’s double nature, as an animal and as a creature endowed with reason. The island’s seclusion allows the scientist to establish an empire of horrors. In Wiesel’s Night, the nightmare is to a fault compressed into the unitary and enfold space of the concentration camp.\r\nThe barbed wire that surrounds the camps from all sides and that juts the ironic warning sign of danger, marks the boundaries of a limited and entrapping globe where only the horrors are distance: â€Å"We were caught in a trap, right up to our necks. The doors were nailed up; the way back was finally cut off. The world was a cattle wagon hermetically fuddled” (Wiesel 30). Moreover, time itself is condensed into a single and prolonged night, an imperishable nightmare that k instantaneouslys no respite.\r\nMoreover, the similarity between Moreau’s design of perfecting the human race and Hitler’s go steady for exter minating the Jews and purifying the Aryan race, reveals the point that man is prone to atrocities and inhuman acts that are much more frighten than those of beasts. The hybrid race created by Moreau is a symbol of manhood in general and its proximity to savageness despite technological advancements and scientific progress, while besides world similar to the new breed beast â€like men created by the Holocaust.\r\nThe extreme fright and dehumanizing physical suffering of the prisoners of the concentration camp, change them into savage beings that are limited to a few raw material instincts. The horrors that they be in possession of to endure are almost unbearable. The Jews are therefore rapidly transformed into beasts who try to hold fast to the miserable and terrible lives they have. Hungered, beaten, separated from families and friends, the men and women tolerate their individuality and their human opinions.\r\nGradually, as the horrors progress, they become so inured in the beastly keep they exsert that they no longer communicate or try to express themselves. Any trace of human feeling or dignity disappears from the men that are brought even lower than the animal condition: â€Å"Within a few seconds, we had ceased to be men” (Wiesel 45). The sheer nightmare of permanent terror and sufferance, without the light of hope or comfort is increased by the Jews’ awareness that they were being persecuted by fellow beings. As the narrative progresses, the horrors also increase.\r\nThe thousands of Jews that live and work in crammed-up places become pass skeletons. With scarcely enough food to sustain life and insufficient clothing to shield them from the weather and with no treatment for their illnesses the remaining Jews survive only by a miracle. They are surrounded by ending: its threat blazes in the furnace of the crematories where the ‘selected’ ones are taken, it piles up in the corpses that are ubiquitous in the cam ps, it takes the love ones away and threatens their own emaciated bodies at two moment.\r\nThe cruelties that these mountain suffer are beyond explanation and their endurance impressive. The author himself was only fifteen years old at the time that he had to bear witness and to be a part of these horrors. His latterly religious feeling and his faith are jolted forever by the black memory of the final solution: â€Å"Never shall I immobilise those moments, which murdered my beau ideal and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never” (Wiesel 43).\r\nWhile the Jews are reduced to less than beastly conditions, their exponent of endurance is overwhelming. According to Wiesel, the suffering concourse collect there were greater than God himself because of their spiritual specialty that makes them pray even in these dire conditions. The ikon of the Jews sufferance is easily compara ble to that of the beast-like creations of Doctor Moreau: â€Å"And the dwindling shreds of the humanity still startled me every now and then,â€a momentary recrudescence of speech perhaps, an un faceed discretion of the fore-feet, a pitiful attempt to walk found” (Wells 159).\r\nSignificantly, the Jews as well as other people had regarded Hitler’s promise of exterminating an entire race of people as an impossible farce. The civilized man deems himself safe and sound from extreme pain inflicted by a nonher human being. The narrator himself believes at the beginning that nothing like what was rumored about the camps could be true in the set of the twentieth century. The same disbelief surrounds Prendick’s account of the scientific experiments on the island.\r\nThe ultimate feeling that seizes both Prendick and Wiesel in front of these atrocities is the fact that they do not have the craving to return to mankind, despite their sufferance: â€Å"It is stra nge, but I felt no desire to return to mankind. I was only glad to be quit of the foulness of the Beast People” (Wells 166). This emphasizes the fact that real cruelty is much more frequently witnessed in man than in animals. The two works describe the nightmarish experiences of the narrators.\r\nEntrapped alongside the direst human savagery, the Jews have no choice but to bow to it and expect their own end. Their endurance is obviously superhuman. As in The Island of Doctor Moreau, the discharge of the last Jews is brought by their revolt. This liberation however will never shake the mantel of the horrors that remain inscribed in history as a testimony to human savageness and its persistence in the modern world. ?\r\nWorks Cited:\r\nWells, H. G. The Island of Doctor Moreau. hot York: Signet Classics, 1996. Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York: Holt McDougal, 1999.\r\n'