Jurassic Park: Manmade Amusement Or Manmade Mistake?

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Jasmeet Kaur
English 101A – 02
R. Sherman
February 26, 2014
Jurassic Park: Manmade Amusement or Manmade Mistake?
Jurassic Park, which was released in 1993, takes place on a remote island off the coast of Costa Rica, where genetically engineered dinosaurs roam. Jurassic Park is set to be a theme park, where people from all over the world can pay to come and walk among the dinosaurs. John Hammond, the owner of InGen, a bioengineering company, and the owner of the park, is ecstatic to showcase his new amusement park to the world. Hammond is very proud of what he and his scientists have accomplished in creating Jurassic Park. The movie is set over a span of two days, in which Hammond has to convince his four guests: Donald Gennaro, a lawyer, Ian Malcolm, a mathematician, Alan Grant, a renowned paleontologist, and Ellie Satler, a paleobotanist, that his park is actually something worth investing in and opening to the public. During their stay at Jurassic Park, the computer systems fail, and the dinosaurs escape from their cages and run amok. The underlying theme throughout the action-packed thriller is the warning of the dire consequences of mixing human knowledge with greed and a thirst for power and control of nature and the natural world.
The movie starts off on Isla Nublar, a small island off the coast of Costa Rica. A large group of men are handling a large container with some sort of creature in it. The creature in the container tries to escape, and in the sudden panic, a man is killed by the animal. The movie jumps forward to a mine in the Dominican Republic, where miners are attempting to extract amber for a genetic engineering company, called InGen. The owner of the island is being scrutinized by a lawyer, who is concerned ...

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...since 1993; the advances in biotechnology and computer systems are astounding. Cloning has been advancing through the years – it has been successful with animals, and now scientists are considering trying to clone humans. But along with moving forward with research and technology, humans seem to be moving backwards in terms of humility towards nature and the natural world. The lines between morality and ethics and the ability to carry out experiments are constantly being pushed to their limits. There is so much that humans do not know, do not understand. It is foolish to even assume that it is possible to fully comprehend the repercussions of deadly scientific and/or genetic experiments in their totality. The environment cannot be controlled. It is a force of nature that will happen the way it wants to happen; it is not something that science or mankind can control.

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