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THE EXALTATION OF SCIENCE AND THE MYTH OF PROGRESS :explode: - Coggle…

- - - - FRANKENSTEIN
        
        The myth of progress and scientific exaggeration led to the creation of a monster.
        
        Prometheus man
        
        Overreacher
        
        Frankenstein character
      - She was aware of the latest scientific theories and experiments
    - - DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
        
        Darwinism, theme of the double, most of the scenes are settled in night time.
        
        Hyde character
        
        Rousseau's natural man (in a primitive state)
        
        "black as it was (the night), im the most rigorous hours of slumber."
        
        gothic aspect
        
        scientific experiments led to the creation of a monster, supernatural
- - - - Bad consequences: alienation and omologation, there was lot of pollution, buildings were blackened by smoke of factories, creation of workhouses
        
        OLIVER TWIST
        
        He has been living in a workhouse for nine years
        
        child labour
        
        pickpocketing
        
        minor crimes
      - CHARLES DICKENS
        
        HARD TIMES
        
        COKETOWN
        
        Utilitarianism
        
        only based on facts
      - Good consequences: Lots of new discoveries, Crystal Palace EXPO in London, new undergrounds in London, demographic growth, new cultivations systems.
        
        abolition of slavery in America
- - - - children had to face an adults' world
        escape from modernity
        
        literary nonsense
      - bigger and bigger social gap between rich and poor
      - characters
        
        mad hatter simbolizes workers
        white rabbit simbolizes borgeois