So today in class we chose topics for our common place essay, and I also drew an awesome dragon (woot). I decided I want to write about Science, and whether it is a beautiful thing or a monstrous thing. It connects to my Buffy essay because it’s about an episode where a high school boy resurrects his brother and then tries to assemble a female out of dead body parts. I figured this essay was interesting enough for the class to read and for the Commonplace editors to examine. I have not decided whether or not I’m going to choose a side. I could use the argument, “Science can be both beautiful and monstrous at the same time” or I could choose a side and maybe go more towards “Science appears beautiful and progressive, however it will eventually cross the line and become monstrous”. Those are two very different papers, so I should probably make a decision pretty soon. I could bring up stem cell research, test tube babies, some soviet experiments I found, resuscitation, and etc. I also already have a lot of interesting quotes and facts on the subject. I can also connect the topic to previous texts such as Frankenstein, and how times and expectations have changed. So much in the scientific world has changed, for good and bad. A lot of the social outlook depends on religion and ethics. Everyone has a different sense of morality I suppose. Anyway that’s my starting point, Science: Beauty or Monstrosity.
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