Allegory in "Jurassic Park" and "The Lost World"

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This paper presents a detailed discussion on the use of allegory in Michael Crichton's "Jurassic Park" and the "Lost World". The writer draws several examples from the story to illustrate the use of allegory and then discusses its effectiveness. The paper shows how the two works leave the reader with a better understanding of the way the world at large works and with a better understanding of blind idealism, greed, and pure science and how those things can relate to real life after reading these stories.

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"The use of dinosaurs to stand in for human beings is not unheard of and at times is actually a popular literary and film making fad. In the case of this story however, it had been awhile so the concept was relatively new. The dinosaur species represents human society. They have many different races and cultures by virtue of their meat eating or vegetarian eating habits as well as their refusal to mingle with other types of dinosaurs. They separated their types in the same manner that humans have often separated their types. This allegory is further explained by one of the novel's characters when it is said that one type of the park's creatures are tiny and cute and others in the park are massive and scary. It parallels the human tradition of division by cultures."

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