Darwin's theory of evolution holds that man evolved from similar animals. The author, HG Wells, used Darwin's theory as the basis for writing The Island of Doctor Moreau. Darwin's theory challenged this metaphysical barrier by suggesting that humans were simply exceptionally well evolved, and Wells appears to be trying to assert human exceptionalism” (Wells, HG). Wells used certain writing styles to draw the reader into the story. HG Wells used imagery, figurative language, and setting in The Island of Doctor Moreau to represent the distinction between humans and animals in everyday life. In The Island of Doctor Moreau, HG Wells uses imagery to describe the appearance of beasts and so on. that the reader can understand how strange and scary these things are. He also used imagery to describe the surroundings and enclosure in which the beasts lived and compared them to that in which a man would live. This quote from The Island of Doctor Moreau details the appearance of the beast and the deformities they had in their body. . H. G. Wells wrote: "The next most noticeable deformity was in their faces, almost all undershot, malformed around the ears, with large, protruding noses, very hairy or very wiry hair, and often eyes of a strange color or in a strange position." ” (Pozzi 133). “Wells emphasizes the qualities of humanity that exist outside of the physical body” (Wells). This quote strongly describes the physical makeup of beasts, how deformed they are, and how different they are from other animals. This quote extracted from the book appeals to the senses of sight and touch as it mentions the color and texture of their hair. Most likely, these beasts would only like to come out at night, which would make this island very scary and dangerous... in the middle of the paper… and small animals wandering here and there. When Edward first arrived on the island, Wells used his view from the boat as the view that the reader would receive through the text “it was low and covered with a thick vegetation,...the beach was of dull gray sand, and sloped steeply to a ridge, perhaps sixty or seventy feet above sea level, and irregularly covered with trees and undergrowth" (Pozzi 42). The setting helps to contribute to the topic because it describes in detail what animals lived on and how they lived. “Through Prendeck, he implies that, no matter how Moreau puts them together, they are animals by nature, not by me” (Vint, Sherryl). To make the distinction between humans and animals clear, HG Wells had to be as clear as possible. H. G. Wells' use of figurative language, imagery and setting made a clear difference between humans and animals.