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Essay on Transgressions against God in Dr. J and Mr. H for English
My essay on yea...that one... In the book, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Henry Jekyll’s character makes choices to undergo a transformation. A transformation that will ultimately lead to his death. Dr. Henry Jekyll’s choices are, unbeknownst to him transgressions (which means to sin, a type of sin, or to go against someone) against God. Dr. Jekyll’s transgression against God was the ultimate act of betrayal. He took something that God normally would do, which would be creating another being, specifically an evil being. In a sense, he was playing God. Now, in the book and movie written by Michael Crichton and directed by Steven Spielberg, “Jurassic Park,” the character of John Hammond uses the miracle of cloning to bring dinosaurs back from extinction and creates a park. Early on in the movie, the character of Ian Malcolm (played by Jeff Goldblum) tells Hammond that what he is doing is “dangerous” and that “what you call discovery, I call the rape of the natural world.” The characters of Ian Malcom, Dr. Grant, and Dr. Sattler find out that all the dinosaurs in the park are engineered to be all female and Ian mentions that, “Life breaks free, it expands to new territories” and that “Life will find a way” to have the dinosaurs breed one way or another. Which it does. In the climax of the film, due to some hacker that worked in the park, all the power in the park went out causing the dinosaurs to break out of their paddocks. The result being that Ian was right, and people are injured or die. At the end of the book, John Hammond dies and might have been left at the parl. But either way, it was a transgression against God and people paid with their lives. I’d also like to point out that in Jurassic Park 3, Dr. Grant and several others go back to the original island and Tea Leoni’s character asks Grant, “So this is how you create dinosaurs?”to which Grant corrects her and says, “No this is how you play God.” In the Disney Channel original cartoon created by Mark McCorkle and Bob Schooley called “Kim Possible” there is a character called Dr. Drakken. He is the main character Kim Possible’s arch foe. In an episode entitled, ‘Kimitation Nation’, he created clones (albeit cheap imitation ones) of Kim, Ron Stoppable (Kim’s best friend and sidekick), Rufus (Ron’s Naked Moled Rat), and Bonnie (Kim’s rival). In the end, Dr. Drakken’s clones are destroyed by soda and he is beaten (again) by Kim Possible. Odds are, that he will suffer the Bibical consequence of death (possibly) in later episodes for all the time that he has played God. Also, in the the movie and book called “Matilda” directed by Danny DeVito and written by Roald Dahl, the antangonist, Agatha Trunchbull tells Matilda, her classmates, and their teacher Ms. Honey in the climax of the film that, “In this school, in this classroom, I AM GOD!” Now, for anyone to even say that they are God of anything in place of the real God is a transgression against God and even a commandment, “1. Thou shalt not have other Gods before me.” At the end, the Trunchbull is driven away from the school “never to be seen or heard from, never to darken a doorway,” as the Narrator told the viewers at the end of the movie and it is pretty much insinuated that she dies because she acted like she could very well be God. And finally, in the movie written and directed by Kevin Smith called “Dogma”, these renegade angels made a choice to reverse a decreed God had made about them concerning that they would never be allowed back into Paradise (Heaven, they are not allowed to reenter Heaven ever) by a loophole in Catholic Dogma. By doing this, by the end of the movie both Bartleby and Loki are dead because of different reasons. They died because of their transgression against God, which was “to prove God wrong” that would have resulted in “unmaking existence” if they had succeeded, because as the character Metatron told the main character Bethany Sloane, “God is infallible.” In conclusion, the character of Dr. Jekyll in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson suffered Bibical consequences (death) for the choices he made that are/were transgression against God and that he got what was coming to him. Just like John Hammond of “Jurassic Park”, Dr. Drakken of Kim Possible, Agatha Trunchbull of “Matilda” and Bartleby and Loki of “Dogma.” |
