Comparing Science and Religion in Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The Struggle Between Science and Religion in Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and capitalFrom Frankenstein to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to Metropolis, the mad scientist is one of the modern worlds well-nigh instantly recognizable and socialise cultural icons. Popular cultures fascination with demented doctors, crazed clinicians, and technologically fanatical fiends have dominated the major motifs of popular literature and film for most of the 20th century and this fascination will continue into the 21st century. An archetypal outcast, the mad scientist represents all that modern culture holds mysterious and fascinating, intriguing and sinful, and, to speculate the least, romantic. Popular culture has completely desensitized the blasphemous, heretical, epileptic shocks oftampering with things that should not be tampered with and has made them, instead, into common, everyday occurrences. The Romantic struggle between theology and erudition still wages today--only todays th eology has become a religion of philistinism and the worship of the monetary system and through mass media this neo-theology has appealed to societies appetite and catch an audience desirable by any deity. When we think of Mad Science, the modern, stereotypical, Hollywood muckle of mad intelligence floods the mind-of Dr. Frankenstein (Frankenstein) Dr. Jekyll (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) and Rotwang (Metropolis) along with many another(prenominal) others-and for bully reason. Many of these characters we know by heart, either from literature, theater, or film, while many others weve hardly heard of and are thus marked mundane and profitless in our minds. Mad science is synonymous with the insane scientist who blew up his lab, precisely is ecst... ... science and symbolism pertaining to sex roles,marriage, and the family. With the reformed tolerance and leniency of the nineteenth century, especially that of religion, the gateway was opened and the chaos th at is modern horror was situated free to terrorize the land.Works CitedCarroll, David , and Kyla Ward. The Horror Timeline. <http//www.tabula-rasa.info/DarkAges/ October 13, 2003.Lovecraft, H.P. H.P. Lovecraft Library. William Johns, 2002.October 15, 2003.Perkus, Aaron Keith. Mythos Journal No. 6 Myths of Scienceand Technology Dr. Jekyll Hyeding in the Garden of Eden. October 15, 2003.Skal, David J. Screams of Reason mad science and modernculture. New York, NY W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1998. Stevenson, Robert Louis. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde. New York, NY W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2003.