“Fossilizing What is a Continuous Flux”: The Appropriation of Science in The French Lieutenant’s Woman
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Presupposing a postmodern tinge, Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’sWoman revisits the scientific milieu of the Victorian period, and displayscomplicated approaches to it, criticizing and reappropriating them in parallelfashion. Fowles, first of all, highlights science’s defects in the ontologicaland epistemological dimensions including solidification, paranoiacomniscience, exploitation, and the transgression of unintelligibility. The fossilization that science affords constrains dynamic momentum,multiple potentials, and fictive narratives. The ambition of science toproject its intelligibility on every subject around it develops its subtlemaneuvers to formulate and contain all objects. Scientific epistemologyencroaches on the singular domain of inarticulateness, causing the confrontationbetween scientific categorization and indeterminate indecipherability,which is materialized through two different visions of protagonistsCharles and Sarah: the one inquisitive, definitive, or possessive;the other filled with unintelligibility. However, Fowles does not ignorethe positive traits of science. Darwinism, despite its residual conservatism,nurtures such revolutionary motifs as can destabilize other establishedprinciples and structures. The deliberate and collected rhythmderived from the methodicality of the scientific procedures reduces thebewildering rapidity of contemporary lifestyles. The universality that thevast majority of Victorian scientists treasured can supersede the unresponsiveoverspecialization and incommunicability of postmodern science.
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Presupposing a postmodern tinge, Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’sWoman revisits the scientific milieu of the Victorian period, and displayscomplicated approaches to it, criticizing and reappropriating them in parallelfashion. Fowles, first of all, highlights science’s defects in the ontologicaland epistemological dimensions including solidification, paranoiacomniscience, exploitation, and the transgression of unintelligibility. The fossilization that science affords constrains dynamic momentum,multiple potentials, and fictive narratives. The ambition of science toproject its intelligibility on every subject around it develops its subtlemaneuvers to formulate and contain all objects. Scientific epistemologyencroaches on the singular domain of inarticulateness, causing the confrontationbetween scientific categorization and indeterminate indecipherability,which is materialized through two different visions of protagonistsCharles and Sarah: the one inquisitive, definitive, or possessive;the other filled with unintelligibility. However, Fowles does not ignorethe positive traits of science. Darwinism, despite its residual conservatism,nurtures such revolutionary motifs as can destabilize other establishedprinciples and structures. The deliberate and collected rhythmderived from the methodicality of the scientific procedures reduces thebewildering rapidity of contemporary lifestyles. The universality that thevast majority of Victorian scientists treasured can supersede the unresponsiveoverspecialization and incommunicability of postmodern science.
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