Island
In Jurassic Park, the island represents the interconnected nature of life on earth and the ways in which seemingly isolated events often end up having unexpected consequences. John Hammond purchases a private island specifically…
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Raptors
The raptors symbolize the power of nature and its ability to evade and escape human control. Dr. Henry Wu can extract, sequence, and clone dinosaur DNA from biological matter preserved in amber. But he and…
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Vestiges
In Jurassic Park, Vestiges—including footprints, fossils, tracks, and anything that shows the trace of something no longer present—symbolize the limits of human knowledge. By their very nature, vestiges offer an incomplete picture of whatever…
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