tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8246797287811539521.post114318242104834265..comments2022-04-07T10:37:46.850-05:00Comments on English 208b: The Impossible, Perverse and Strange: Woman TrappedDahlia Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09174548009168267294noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8246797287811539521.post-39404271188027091182010-03-30T08:46:37.650-05:002010-03-30T08:46:37.650-05:00To add to this insight, this is the moment of scie...To add to this insight, this is the moment of scientific advances that made man's control over the natural world seem possible. For example, in 1802, the Humphry Davy claimed that the chemist "is to a certain extent ruler of all the elements that surround him, and he is capable of using not only common matter according to his will and inclinations, but likewise of subjecting to his purposes the ethereal principles of heat and light." This view, however, was challenged by new geological theories and Darwin;s evolutionary paradigm, which made human will and agency insignificant in the vast expanse of geological time and space. Perhaps "Mariana" is reflecting this turn away from a sense of man's control over nature to his ultimate subjection to the immensity of time embedded in nature.Dahlia Porterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09174548009168267294noreply@blogger.com