ENGL124 : Canticle of Leibowitz essay

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The world is like a clock. 1 descartes in this phrase bluntly relates the history of human world with the future as does miller in his novel, a canticle for leibowitz . According to miller, there are two main patterns of technoscientific progress occurring in the novel. The first one is occurring microscopically and the underlying one occurs macroscopically. Microscopically, technoscientific progress occurs when tradition acts as the foundation of technoscience which is depicted by the change in perspectives of monks of the blessed order of the st. leibowitz during the fiat homo and fiat lux. Macroscopically, miller dwells the plot on the gradual technoscientific progress entrapped by political power which dialectically drives humanity to the brink of extinction in a clockwise manner. So, miller is implying that the technoscientific progress is bound to happen and it is bound to be influenced by the power to master the world.

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