![]() ![]() ![]() The origin of the social Law in Moreau is merely a performance of an event, and it cannot explain all of the acts that happen on the island that exceed the law. In The Island of Doctor Moreau race is a fictitious structure that creates the narrative and evolutionary structure of the novel and the society on the island. Christenson claims Wells needs racial disparity in order to do this. Wells attempts to represent the necessary/impossible origin of this kernel of nonsense through an evolutionary view of a parallel symbolic order. Those indoctrinated by this institution blindly accept this as truth. ![]() It is a “kernel of nonsense,” a moment that escapes being incorporated into the events that it sets in motion i.e. Using Fredrick Douglass’s argument to supplement his own, he explains the view they both critique which is that race is “divinely ordained,” and the dark skin of some men was seen as an incomprehensible choice made by God in the beginning that must be upheld through the actions of man. He claims that the will of God is used to fill an emptiness in the real, this will is imaginary, and it is used to place slavery beyond criticism. Moreau”Ĭhristensen begins his essay by remarking on slavery’s place in the symbolic order. ![]() The “Bestial Mark” of Race in “The Island of Dr. ![]()
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