Wells created one of literature's most enduring monsters with Dr. Moreau. I had to skip most of the pages describing vivisection and pain, as it is simply too upsetting. I wonder sometimes why Wells would be so detailed about it, but I choose to believe he did it to protest the animal vivisection that was prevalent at the time. At the time most of the victims were dogs, since they trusted humans enough to allow such horrors be done to them (how sick that is!). It reminds me of the poem Rags, and I'm sure Wells must have been inspired to protest by a similar incident.