Distillation

Depicting the intentions of humans in the passage, the narrator describes how people (scientists) can go past the point of feeling bad for plants and animals by hurting them to potentially help other people in the future using vivid imagery, dramatic irony, and hyperbole. Painting out dramatic images, the narrator describes when the scientists “stick pins through the miserable wretches, or cut them up, without a pang of remorse, into little pieces” to also display the irony that “nine times out of ten” scientists “take to torturing something -and they firmly believe they are improving their minds” its ironic because they are hurting living things to improve the lives of others. Hyperbole is distinct when the narrator speaks of “pouring over the spiders insides with a magnifying glass”... “or cut them up...into little pieces” reason being because its not as brutal as the narrator makes it. The narrator brings together a piece depicting the reasons a scientist can be depicted as a mindless fool, however from peoples point of view they are doing better for all humankind.