Essay - Allegory and Idealism in Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park and the...

allegory and idealism in Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park ***** The Lost World

This paper presents a detailed discussion on the use of allegory and idealism ***** Michael ***** Jurassic ***** ***** The Lost World. The writer draws several examples from ***** story to illustrate the use of allegory and then discusses its effectiveness. There were three sources *****d to complete this *****.

In many literary works the authors use methods that might be considered metaphoric to make their point. In the case of science fiction the author is given a lot of freedom ***** use things such *****s metaphors and ***** characters to present an underlying message to the readers. The ability to use allegory in ***** fiction ***** strengthened ***** enhanced because ***** the very nature of the genre. Aliens, monsters and man made creatures often grace the stories, allowing the allegory effect to be utilized.

***** one can fully understand the way allegory was used in Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park one must have an underst*****ding of the ***** *****elf. The plot ***** Jurassic Park lends itself to the use of allegory because ***** ***** type of ***** that it is. ***** plot centers on the idea a Palo Alto California company had to create a fantasy park ***** allowed people to roam with the dinosaurs and know how *****y lived.

The groundbreaking technique used for the park involved ***** cl*****ing of DNA from dinosaur samples taken from insects that bit the ********** then died and were preserved as fossils(Crichton, 1992). The company found a ***** to extr*****ct the blood of the dinosaur and use the ***** to ***** the creatures for the park. The park ***** a dream of John Hammond who buys an isl*****d 100 miles off ***** co*****t of Costa Rica(Jurassic Park, or, Sympathy for the Dinosaur Joe Sartelle Bad Subjects, Issue # 5, May 1993 (http://eserver.org/bs/06/Sartelle.html).

When a scientist named Malcolm warns Hammond that the park is becoming increasingly unstable due to the rush to create these ***** without proper research to verify its reactions, the warnings are ignored beca***** there are Japanese investors coming to the park that weekend to see ***** ***** investment was coming. In addition *****'s grandchildren were spending the weekend at the park(Jurassic Park, or, ***** for ***** Dinosaur ***** Sartelle Bad Subjects, ***** # 5, May ***** (http://eserver.org/bs/06/Sartelle.html).Thatweekend the *****s become ***** and ***** ***** on the *****l***** spend ***** entire trip trying ***** survive and getting eaten alive, injured and otherwise attacked by the manmade creatures.

The use of dinosaurs to stand in for human beings is not unheard of and at times is actually a popul*****r literary and film making fad. In the case of this story however, it ***** been awhile so the concept was rel*****ively new. The dinosaur species represents human *****ciety. They have many different races and cultures by virtue of their meat eating or vegetarian eating ha*****s as well as their refusal to mingle with other types of dinosaurs. They separated ***** types