Controlling Animals: Vain Attempts at Immortality in Three Works of Fiction

Table of Contents - Introduction - An Ancillary Note about Death as It Relates to Nature -The Relevance of Becker in Relation to Analysis of the Fiction in Question/Death is a Star when Red in Tooth and Claw - The Island of Dr. Moreau-A Case Study for the Argument Against Immortality - When The Killing is Done-A Case Study for the Argument Against Immortality - The Impact of Terror Management Theory - A Note about Taming the Tiger - Why Islands? - Islands and Legacy-Isolated Monuments and Arbiters of Immortality - The Island of Dr. Moreau- Playing God on an Island Refuge - Post humanism- Manifestations and the Denial of Reverence - Futile Attempts at Immortality - Additional Observations of Moreau's Botched Attempts at Immortality Further Revealed - What is Nature? A Definition of Terms - The Problematizing of Dominion in the Context of Wayward Immortality Projects - Dominion from within and Dominance from without - The Significance of Island Utopias - Dominion Meets Its Match-Island Wars-The Islands Strike Back - Keeping the Beast at Bay- Reflections on the Human Animal - Dominion as a pseudonym for Colonization - Dominion as a pseudonym for Colonization - Fiction as an alternate/ersatz form to dominion - Should Mercy have a place in the execution of dominion over animals? - Should a stop be put to dominion when human life is at stake? - Concluding - Works Cited

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Animal appropriation; Animal subjugation; Animals; Attempts; Controlling; Death aversion; Dominion; Fiction; Immortality; Immortality Projects; Michael; Paul; Reichstein; Ruecker; Three; Vain; Works