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Situational Irony
Key Examples in The Island of Dr. Moreau
Chapter 13: A Parley
Explanation and Analysis:
The novel is full of fantastical ideas and events, but Wells uses a plainspoken style and leans on figurative language in a mostly utilitarian way. In Chapter 13, Prendick tries to drown himself to escape from Moreau, who he believes is cutting into humans to make them more animal-like:
[Montgomery and Moreau] both shouted together as if to drown my voice. And behind them lowered the staring faces of the Beast Men, wondering, their deformed hands hanging down, their shoulders hunched up. They seemed, as I fancied then, to be trying to understand me, to remember something of their human past.
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