Most dystopian novels show the loss of the arts and the major advance in science. ... This world was letting literature and art slip away from it. ... Importance was now only found in numbers and what science could do to advance the human race. ... Certain knowledge is lost when people only care about numbers and science. ... The loss of meaning behind language and art is a frequently utilized theme in dystopian novels, Atwood managed to make her story hit closer to home than most other stories. ...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

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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• Grade Level: High School

At the beginning of the book, the doctor makes a peculiar request: to measure Marlow's skull "in the name of science ". ... The doctor himself admits that these men never come back, so he's never able to re-measure skulls in order to track a change or do anything "in the name of science ". ... Conrad provides several examples of this theme throughout the novel. ... He also WAY exaggerates some of romantic literature's hallmark traits throughout the novel (lots of contrast, weird metaphors, obscure analogy, saying something that can either mean a lot or nothing). ...

• Word Count: 834
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In the Victorian era, there was a huge conflict occurred especially because of Darwin's theory between science and religion. ... Science brought new inventions and these inventions, while doing good to humans, but also, were making them more mechanized. ... This conflict between science and religion is wonderfully depicted in the poems of those poets who were extremely worried because of the conflict, Matthew Arnold is one of those. ... He is neither too melancholic like Arnold nor too optimistic like Robert Browning, another contemporary, in terms of the tone, mood and theme of his poetr...

• Word Count: 5237
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School