Annoyed by Moreau: A Parody*Shipwreck, rescued by strange people, taken to an island*
P: Oh no, no one wants me with them! What shall I do? *goes into passive mode*
Moreau: You must stay in this room, because I’m Bluebeard.
P: Oh okay, cuz that’s not ominous at all! La la la… oh wait, what’s that sound?
Moreau: *tortures puma*
P: OMG you’re hurting the animal that’s terrible!
Moreau: But it’s for SCIENCE.
P: Oh, well then that’s okay.
*Next day*
P: I’m bored and annoyed. *runs into dangerous forest* Eep there’s strange animals here! Who would expect that? *runs away, runs back to lab, accidentally breaks in on Moreau’s experiment*
P: Aaaaaaaaaaa! It’s human! *runs away again, meets the animal creatures*
Animal creatures: Hi. You’re weird and we don’t trust you. Come join in our secret cult chanting anyway.
Cult: Reach towards your allegorical human side/higher natures, don’t give into your allegorical beastly side/fleshly desires, and fear the allegorical House of Pain/Hell above all.
P: Whoa they think Moreau’s God! How terrible!
Montgomery and Moreau: *pursues P ominously* Nothin’s gonna harm you, not while I’m around!
P: Yeah right. Give me your pistols.
Montgomery: *hands them over* Don’t be so dramatic. We’re just forcibly mutating animals until we mold them into unearthly haunted vestiges of their former selves – with human thrown in cuz humans look cool.
P: Well, I guess that’s alright.
*after a few days*
P: *finds a rabbit corpse* Who could have killed that?
Moreau and Montgomery: Time to go condemn the culprit. *heads out into the jungle*
P: *alone in the house* Why is nothing happening? Oh yeah, the story’s seen through my point of view. I better go follow them.
*finds them and Moreau and Montgomery*
Moreau *to Leopard Man*: You’ve broken the law! Doom is upon you!
Other animals to Leopard Man: Ha ha, you’re doomed, we’re not.
Terrified Leopard Man: Rawr!
P: Well, I hate to see this poor creature subject to the law that I’m supporting by my compliance with Moreau – so instead of rebelling or anything, I’ll just kill it.
*kills Leopard Man*
P: Whew, cognitive dissonance is uncomfortable.
Puma: *escapes from lab*
Moreau: I cannot faiiiiillll! *gets killed*
Montgomery: Er, what do I do now? I don’t have an identity anymore. *drinks, gets killed*
P: *alone with the beast-people* Uh oh. In fear for my safety, I’ll take up Moreau’s position of authority, even though I hated it before.
P: Um, bow down before me. I am scary! Rawr!
Animal-creatures: Um, you’re really not.
P: *hides in hut with dog, finally escapes on raft*
*back in England*
P: Hmm, I seem to have Gulliver-itis. Everybody seems bestial to me, and the island was just a microcosm of the depraved nature of the rest of the world! Oh, but that’s crazy. I think I’ll study astronomy, cuz space is pure and has no danger!
H.G. Wells: *writes War of the Worlds*
P: Oh, grr.
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In my opinion "Moreau" tried, and failed miserably, to be an allegory for sin. The doctor viewed himself as a god figure, and by trying to surpress human/animal nature- speaking down to them from his pedastal he only incited the masses into tearing him down from it.
....Not to mention Prendick won the award for worst protagonist in modern literature. For god sakes, a cardboard cutout of a bologna sandwich could have achieved more depth of character.
The fact wells started on war of the worlds immediatley after this novel shows how much emotion he invested in the project. /eyeroll.
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I think you're right about the allegory for sin, but I think it was trying to refute the traditional religious-morality concept rather than promote it: by showing how tyrannical Moreau was and how pointless and torn the animal-people's lives were, it throws a question on the utility of religion and the reality of faith (as Moreau himself was only a God-construct, not a god himself, but they all believed blindly). But I think it could have done it a lot better. I mean, House of Pain? Yipe.
Although one writer was talking about how it might be an allegory for colonialism... which makes some sense...
And that's a really good point about War of the Worlds
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Ha, ha, ha, ha! That parody you wrote is the oddest combination of Maidenhair and me. We like to make fun of crappy stories/movies when we talk. This sounds EXACTLY like a conversation we would have.
Finally, you may be one of the most intelligent people I know. Your writing and thought are both profound and sophisticated. Many parodies that I read tend to be fraught with obscenities, racial or gender slurs, and needless and completely unfunny sex scenes. However, your's (I hope that apostrophe is supposed to be there.) was cheeky and lighthearted, and it displayed your impressive talent for word-smithing. Well done!
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