Ship fever
"Human desire to survive and the value of human lives." The book Ship fever by Andrea Barrett explores the development of science at an age when the society was on the entrance of progress. The little value placed on human life due to the diseases and wars that destroyed society held claim to the society¯s need to be indifferent to death. The need to survive was the primary desire and the concept of csurvival of the fittest¯ accepted by all. This story allows the reader to explore the worthlessness of human life even in face of the extreme need for survival.Humans have had a monumental effect on the state of the earth and, indeed, may have threatened their own survival. However, humans are also the only known species with the capacity to conceptualize and care about collectively induced charge and perhaps to ensure its own survival. The earth may not care which species remain and which do not, but arguably it could care about its own survival. In Andrea Barrett's "Ship Fever," Lauchlin, a young Canadian doctor, works on a quarantine station off the coast of Quebec. It is during the Great Irish Famine, and boatloads of typhus-ridd
The desire of human's to survive against the odds has been appreciated over the centuries and in the most miraculous circumstances people will find the will to live. en Irish immigrants arrive daily on the Canadian shore. The doctor tends them and searches for a cure. Lauchlin is obsessed by his scientific work trying to find a cure for the deadly disease that grips the immigrants. After Galileo, everything changed. With time, scientists came to see themselves battling for their lives and their freedom against faith. This happened slowly at first. Isaac Newton apparently felt it very little. But by the mid-19th century, when Charles Darwin sailed aboard the Beagle and hatched his theory of evolution by natural selection, the confrontation was acute. There is, after all, nothing in the Bible about random genetic variation or survival of the fittest. Science does not seem to answer questions of purpose or value. At a time when human life was not considered very valuable we see people fighting to keep the patients alive. In the novella that gives the short story collection its name, a doctor on a Quebec quarantine island in the
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Approximate Word count = 767
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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