English 2071F/G Lecture 3: Lecture 3
8 Mar 2017
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Wells: learning cell ideas: o character, religious symbolism/imagery etc. Schrodinger"s plague: a biological agent constructed by the military that will kill 98% of people within 330 days, people don"t know if the agent has been released or not. Undermines and challenges the binaries of things like good and evil, order and disorder. Challenges newton"s paradigm that emphasizes predictability: newton"s physics: A small cause will cause a small consequence. Chaos theory suggests that a small cause will have a huge consequence. 1: in this novel people interfere with time and reality to eliminate war, disease, etc and create a. Monday, january 23, 2017 static society which ultimately makes it die because people have no problems: wells offers a sociological understanding of human society, he is the second most important science fiction writer. Critiqued victorian values and two themes of the british empire of the time: progress and empire: clear critique of imperialist mindset of an isolated, prejudiced and narrow-minded people.
