# The Island of Doctor Moreau — Character guide

> Key figures in The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells.

- [Edward Prendick](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_island_of_doctor_moreau_se/characters/edward_prendick.md): A shipwrecked gentleman who survives the Lady Vain only to wash up on an island where the line between man and beast dissolves before his eyes.
- [Montgomery](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_island_of_doctor_moreau_se/characters/montgomery.md): Moreau's whip-cracking, whisky-soaked assistant, a fallen medical man whose ease among the Beast Folk unsettles Prendick more than the creatures themselves.
- [Doctor Moreau](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_island_of_doctor_moreau_se/characters/doctor_moreau.md): A disgraced physiologist who fled England's outrage to perfect his art of carving animals into men on a lonely Pacific island, and who suffers no trespassers.
- [M'ling](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_island_of_doctor_moreau_se/characters/m_ling.md): Montgomery's silent, dog-derived attendant, who chops wood, carries wire, and watches the island's horrors with a loyalty that is almost human.
- [The Captain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_island_of_doctor_moreau_se/characters/the_captain.md): Brutish skipper of the schooner Ipecacuanha who abandons Prendick.
- [Helmar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_island_of_doctor_moreau_se/characters/helmar.md): Companion of Prendick in the dinghy after the Lady Vain wreck.
- [Constans](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_island_of_doctor_moreau_se/characters/constans.md): Another survivor in the dinghy with Prendick and Helmar.
- [The Kanakas](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_island_of_doctor_moreau_se/characters/the_kanakas.md): Native sailors on the schooner who assist Montgomery.
- [The Beast Folk](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_island_of_doctor_moreau_se/characters/the_beast_folk.md): Moreau's hand-carved congregation of puma, hyena, ape, and swine, who chant the Law in the sulfur dust and dread the House of Pain.
- [Mister Shut](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_island_of_doctor_moreau_se/characters/mister_shut.md): A Beast Folk who becomes hostile after tasting blood.
- [Lady Vain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_island_of_doctor_moreau_se/characters/lady_vain.md): The shipwrecked vessel from which Prendick escapes.

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