The worlds of science and literature, seemingly academic polar opposites, actually rely upon one another. ... Countless literary works have been written with science being its primary theme and inspiration. ... However, as is evident in many works of literature that focus on science, this is not true. ... Morality is intertwined with human existence just as science is, because of this, science and morality go hand in hand. ... Morality and science go hand in hand. ...

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According to The Renaissance, the Italian Renaissance began with the merchant class, many whom became patrons of the arts, and included the rediscovery of Greek and Roman science, art and literature (Hunt 8). ... Before long, scholars were rediscovering Greek and Roman art, science, and literature" (Day). ... Then literature took a turn and began to focus on humanism. ... This was a time in history that artist in Italy were able to paint pagan themes without being scared of the Church. ... Most research, though, suggests that the theme is love and marriage (Sandro Botticelli Primavera). ...

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In this paper it will refer to a style of literature. A very good example of this type of literature is Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. ... Later, when he goes away to college in pursuit of knowledge about alchemy and other sciences, everything gets darker and darker. ... He didn't think about how humanity or the creature would be affected by his evil science. ... This is the most obvious of all the themes present in the novel. ...

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When the name Bradbury is spoken, the thought of science fiction is usually triggered. This is because much of Bradbury's literature has to do with illusory ideas. ... Fahrenheit 451, which is sometimes just referred to as Fahrenheit, is one of Bradbury's most famous pieces of literature. ... Another theme that falls under censorship is the idea of freedom. ... Ray Bradbury has experienced or has realized many other circumstances having to do with censorship of his own literature as well as the literature of others. ...

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The incidences in Kurt Vonnegut's life, in which he has been stripped of important relationships, experienced schizophrenic illusions of grandeur brought on by loneliness, and sought artificial relationships to fill the void, surface in recurring themes: forced isolation of characters, allusions to schizophrenic tendencies, and one's yearning for relationships, real or otherwise. ... He is a science fiction writer who essentially has no one. ...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne One of the most significant writers of the romantic period in American literature was Nathaniel Hawthorne. ... Nathaniel Hawthorne explored the themes of pride, sin, and the Puritan cycle in American writing in many of his works. ... After Alymer was wed, he took pride in combining his new love with his foremost passion of science in trying to remove a birthmark from her face. Although the potion he created was to kill his wife, Alymer nonetheless took pride in the science of creating a potion that did actually remove the birthmark. ... "Themes of Nathaniel Hawtho...

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This philosophy of "art for art's sake" later evolved into the literary movement of Aestheticism which eschewed the symbolic and preachy literature of the day "especially in England "in an attempt to overcome strict Victorian conventions. Because of his emphasis on style and language, Poe proclaimed his writing a reaction to typical literature of the day, which he called "the heresy of the Didactic'' for its tendency to preach. ... Family is an important theme in this story. ... The illnesses in this story, as well as some of the natural phenomena, explore the theme of...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Works One of the most significant writers of the romantic period in American literature was Nathaniel Hawthorne. ... Nathaniel Hawthorne explored the themes of pride, sin, and the Puritan cycle in American writing in many of his works. ... After Alymer was wed, he took pride in combining his new love with his foremost passion of science in trying to remove a birthmark from her face. Although the potion he created was to kill his wife, Alymer nonetheless took pride in the science of creating a potion that did actually remove the birthmark. ... The writing of...

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q=humanism "A cultural and intellectual movement of the Renaissance that emphasized secular concerns as a result of the rediscovery and study of the literature, art, and civilization of ancient Greece and Rome." - Individualism - http://www.dictionary.com/search?... This all relates to the themes of the Renaissance in that he disagreed with the Church (secularism), and was killed for it. ... He painted pictures with both the themes of Classical Greece and Rome, and of Christianity. ... Because of this theme, the work is described as secular. ... It was this curiosity which laid a foundati...

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In his early years of education, Steinbeck excelled greatly in literature. ... He took a great interest to science, specifically marine biology along with his friend Ed Ricketts (Hughes 45). ... After high school, he continued on to study literature at Stanford University. ... These events had a big influence in his writing style and his works, because they all had a theme of hope in them (Williams). ... For a national book award for fiction, to a Nobel prize in literature (Tuttleton). ...

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All through his college career, Stephen published many stories in college literature magazines, but he had to make his milk money by working part time in the university's library. ... Stephen's own name became synonymous with blockbuster novels joining horror, fantasy, and science fiction into a constantly creepy combination. ... Another unique quality King adds to his works is the fact that most of his novels share common themes. One of the most prevalent themes amongst his works is friendship. And who would understand this theme better than somebody who lived in a s...

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Orwell's Gripe Commenting on and criticizing literature is a common practice. ... Arnold felt that the spread of education, an education which employed a fixed cannon, dedicated to literature that was established and recognized as great art, would lead to acceptably cultured masses. ... The more important theme of this poem is her critique of the new "liberal education" system of which her aunt is a product. ... Browning uses the term "liberal education" in a satirical way as she describes what it teaches; "mathematics,--brushed with extreme flounce The circle of the sciences- She sho...

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The Passions and the Reasons Within The Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, is the name given to the period in Europe during the 1700s when mankind was emerging from centuries of ignorance into a new age enlightened by reason, science, and respect for humanity. ... Though the literature of this period was unrealistic the people of the Enlightenment revered the power of the mind to reason and to determine realities. ... Passions and reason are the main, underlying theme for the play Phaedra. ... Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travel is a literature work in which he port...

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Stockton belongs to American popular literature genre. He also, wrote a number of children's stories, and probably was the first to write a science fiction book. ... Analyzing the plot structure: This story theme is not a new or a very original design. ... The story might be a fiction, but the theme is a reality. ...

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Death and the Compass: Comparing Ideas One of the oldest standards in Western literature as we know it today is that of the detective story. ... At a chaste and mere thirteen pages long, it is one of the shortest and most simplified detective stories that I have ever encountered as a student of literature. ... There is still the underlying theme of the villain baiting the good inspector into a confusing quagmire of intrigue, and the concept of their battle being so epic that it spills over into other lives, where they continue to hunt and chase each other in eternal conflict. ...

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One major theme in this work was rejection of authority. ... Zola believed that writing novels was like performing a science experiment. ... The main theme in Frankenstein is that having too much ambition is dangerous. ... There were many allusions to works of literature; these allusions meaningless to readers who are not familiar with the works. ... All of these works reflect the themes of Frankenstein, but would go unnoticed to the general reader. ...

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In The Raven, he delved into the theme of death and loss. ... The themes of Poe's stories may very well be rooted in the unhappy events in his life. ... The main theme of the story is that one one can not escape death, because in the end it will come "like a thief in the night" and even people who seek "peace and safety...shall not escape" (Applebee). ... He was ultimately credited for creating the science fiction and mystery genres. ... Overall, Poe's works has left a long-lasting impact on American literature....

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As American literature is merely a reflection of American society, it can be concluded through reading several works that this constant, rudimentary fixation on death or dying is an unequivocally American theme. ... Although the idea of an eventual end is common to most social communities, Americans sit at the forefront of science and technology. ... Ahrensdorf states, in his article in The American Political Science Review, that "the modern state was based not on humans' hopes for salvation or their desire to fulfill their political natures, but on their fear of death and desire for sel...

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These standards were falling dangerously, as students began to fail science, math, and literature tests (Britannica on-line). ... Universities would be where humanities and pure sciences were taught. ... Russia needs to gain educational doctrines suitable for modern times, to help them over come short falls such as 50,000 teachers in the country with 1,000 openings still remaining in, subjects like literature, math, and english (New York Times). ...

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Starting off with the 1500's, it is clear that the biological sciences were no were close to what we see them as today. Science was more of a mesh of math physiology, biology, physics and the like. ... Following a similer theme in 1546, Girolamo, Fracastoro was one of the first to explain how diseases were contafious and could be passed on through various vctors (xrefer 1). ... It is clear in this early exploration many different peaces of biology as a science were scattered but slowly comimg together as knowledge was aquired and built upon. ...

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Throughout the story we also read many reflexive comments on life, on literature, on the romance, on the relationship, and on fiction in general. ... Post-structuralists tend to focus on small details in a piece of literature. Consequently, Critics find deeper themes such as class conflict and social structure in pieces which deal with wholly different issues on the surface. ... What is Bronx Science? ...

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However, it is literature where human kinds vivid imagination has often reflected our fascination with the idea of creating artificial life. ... The theme of the play was robots controlling humans in society. ... The first story to explicitly Pg 3 state the three laws was "Runaround", which appeared in the March 1942 issue of "Astounding Science Fiction." ...

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Unlike other detectives, Holmes uses the science of deduction to get right to the middle of any situation. ... The poem also has a chivalric theme. ... His spiritualism and his unique ability to create "real" characters that use deductive reasoning to reveal mysteries will leave a permanent mark on English Literature....

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He returned to Trinity after his absence and graduated in 1871 with a degree in science, he then stayed on to earn his masters degree in pure mathematics. ... In 1890, when his romance novel The Snake's Pass was published, he was already making notes for a novel with a vampire theme. ... (Belford, p.268)" Vampires in literature were nothing new by the time Stoker wrote Dracula; the first fictional vampire was Lord Ruthven from the book Glenarvon. ...

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