shore in Santa Fe, the Biosyn team began to get curious. As the original Jurassic Park team returns to the island, they are followed. The scientists battle with the Biosyn team, but also with nature. Just as in Jurassic Park, the human’s main strug

gle is against nature. In Jurassic Park and The Lost World, Michael Crichton uses conflicts, themes, and other literary elements to reveal the lack of control humans have over the environment.

The underlying themes in both novels are the fact that humans cannot control nature and the chaos theory. The scientists try their hardest to change the natural course of the dinosaurs. However, something has survived. The scientists have tried through bioengineering to control them, but cannot succeed. The scientists feel that they are in control, but Crichton explains that “…our desire for control fosters an illusion of control. That illusion in turn justifies or motivates many of our actions. People desire to control nature…but they cannot ever succeed” (127). Nature will always undergo changes, but the dinosaurs are not really a part of nature, they are something that has been recreated by man. Through bioengineering these creatures, the humans have changed nature. However, changing and controlling are completely different.

cluded and privately owned. These islands are owned by Hammonds and completely desolate until he brings the dinosaurs. The islands are a perfect habitat for the dinosaurs. The greenery is lush, the food is abundant, and they have everything they would potentially need. However, they can never be happy because of they are completely enclosed in fencing.

Man is not only struggling with the dinosaurs, but also with society. The society as a whole looks down on potentially dangerous activities. When raptors began appearing on the shores of Santa Fe in The Lost World, the government and scientists hurriedly disposed of them to keep it out of public view. Man’s greed and curiosity also is a constituent. Again, the Biosyn team is the cardinal enemy. They are avaricious and are only interested in the profit that could be made from the dinosaurs. Their curiosity is aroused even before leaving for Isla Sorna. They had an idea of such an island existing, so they proceeded to stalk Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler for the initial part of The Lost World.

In today’s society, some of the Marxist themes still exist. Human weakness is a substantial contribution to failure, technological failure especially. Because of this weakness, the society as a whole does not effectively get the most out of the technological power available. The novel introduces the “…rationale for a technology that would deliver living dinosaurs into the contemporary world, but it offered some serious thoughts about American…business practices in modern high-tech industry” (Platt 1). The technology is available, yet so many do not use it. Social structure also still exists. Crichton describes to the reader that social structure is often already in place rather than it being chosen or earned. For example, the welfare reform and family values (Udovitch 97).

In Jurassic Park and The Lost World, Michael Crichton uses conflicts, themes, and other literary elements to illustrate the lack of control humans have over the environment. The principal conflicts are between the individual and a larger force. Whether it is society, nature, or the dinosaurs, the individual is usually at a loss. The themes all add up to one underlying theme of the lack of control humans have over nature. No matter how hard they try, they cannot seem to understand nature, thus

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