the island. Now the dinosaurs had all of the power.“Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”(MacBeth, William Shakespeare, Act ) Shakespeare was absolutely right. Power does corrupt those who have it. It can’t beconfirmed that the dictators that make it in to office are psychos beforehand, but the powerprobably makes their greed a little worse. Bill Clinton and countless other world leadershave abused their power. In The Lost World, a company called InGen literally holds thepower of life in its hands. InGen recreated real dinosaurs, which had previously beenextinct for hundreds of millions of years. They had the power, and then they abused it bytrying to make some money. If they had just gone about the research no one would havebeen hurt, and everything would have worked out in the end, but the power consumed them. “Hammond was a hustler, and his true talent was raising money…. He built his park in anisland called Isla Nublar,… but the park system broke down, and the dinosaurs got free.” (Lost World pg. 209)Crichton seems to view mathematics in a certain way. His character Ian Malcolmhas his Chaos Theory, and according to this theory, certain things cannot be explained orpredicted. The dinosaurs on the island were supposed to die off without a certainchemical, but they lived anyway. That is a perfect example of the chaos theory. It justcan’t be explained. They only engineered female animals, because they didn’t want theseanimals to be reproducing, but somehow they changed genders, and procreated. Thesewere all just examples of nature.The last theme is that Crichton wants nature to be above all else. He believes thatnature is best left alone, and if it has worked for billions of years, it will continue to workif we don’t fool around with it. Dinosaurs were living millions of years ago, and theybecame extinct for a reason. “Evolution doesn’t always...
