Jurassic Park Themes

At its core “Jurassic Park” is a cautionary tale of the dangers inherent of scientific discovery for its own sake. . The premise involves a Dinosaur park located in an island in Costa Rica, where visitors can travel and see real dinosaurs for the first time in human history, of course things go wrong and people begin to die. Both the novel and the movie maintain this theme as well as share the core plot which remains essentially the same. There are however many points of separation between the novel and the movie resulting in two distinctly different stories.

Through its sub plots, characterization of main protagonists, and overall tone ,Jurassic Park was one of the biggest block busters of the 90s. There are several plot points spread throughout the film to draw the audience in. Firstly two central plot points, safety and feasibility are introduced right at
The opening scene shows an accident involving the death of an employee via a dinosaur attack, the end is a lawyer raising concerns regarding the parks safety and feasibility. Las Additional sub plots are introduced focusing mainly on character development. Dr. Alan Grant and John Hammond are to of the main protagonists introduced early on in the film and whose characters evolve the most. To start within minutes of Dr. Grant’s first appearance, he illustrates his distaste of children by frightening a small boy with a fossilized claw. During the course of the film he begins to see kids in a much more appreciative manner. This is shown numerous times by Allan’s constant encouragement of two children he ends up babysitting for most of the story. Concurrently John Hammond is increasingly torn between his dream for a real dinosaur park and the welfare of the people that are now trapped within it. Eventually it’s the love for his grandchildren that forces him to drop the pursuit of his dream. Jurassic Park theme is more of a