![]() ![]() ![]() Against this backdrop, in a hacienda called Yaxaktun, Doctor Moreau, along with his daughter Carlota, continues his experiments on animal/human hybrids with the capacity to talk, walk upright, and manipulate tools. The bulk of the action takes place in 1877 during the decades-long “Caste War” between the Maya people and the Mexican Government. Instead of an unnamed island somewhere between Peru and Chile, Moreno-Garcia situates The Daughter of Doctor Moreau amongst the tropical rainforests and jungles of the Yucatán. Thankfully, Moreno-Garcia goes in a different direction, one that aligns with her undertaking to infuse traditional genre tropes – whether it be vampires, the Gothic, or Regency romances – with Mexican culture and history. The inclination would be to update the story for the 21st century, to reframe the Doctor as a fringe scientist illegally experimenting with animal and human DNA. And like all good reboots, Moreno-Garcia takes the key ingredients – Moreau’s “study of the plasticity of living forms,” his alcoholic assistant Montgomery, an isolated environment, and, most importantly, the “Beast People” – and reimagines them in a notably different manner but in keeping with the source material. Wells’s classic short novel The Island of Doctor Moreau. ![]() Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s The Daughter of Doctor Moreau is not a prequel or sequel to H.G. ![]()
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