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 MetropolisFrom Frankenstein to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to Metropolis, the mad scientist is one of the modern worlds most instantly recognizable and entertaining ethnical 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 nose candy and this fascination will continue into the 21st century. Anarchetypal outcast, the mad scientist represents all that modern culture holds mysterious and fascinating, intriguing and sinful, and, to say 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 science still wages today--only todays theology h as befit a religion of materialism and the worship of the monetary system and through mass media this neo-theology has appealed to societies appetite and captivated an audience desirable by any deity. When we look of Mad Science, the modern, stereotypical, Hollywood vision of mad science floods the mind-of Dr. Frankenstein (Frankenstein) Dr. Jekyll (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) and Rotwang (Metropolis) along with many others-and for good reason. Many of these characters we know by heart, either from literature, theater, or film, era many others weve hardly heard of and are thus marked mundane andunimportant in our minds. Mad science is synonymous with the insane scientist who blew up his lab, entirely is ecst... ... science and symbolism pertaining to sex roles,marriage, and the family. With the reformed tolerance and leniency of the 19th century, especially that of religion, the gateway was opened and the chaos that is modern horror was set exonerate to te rrorize 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. bracing 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.