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Arcadia

Throughout the text, Tom Stoppardıs novel Arcadia makes a series of philosophical statements regarding the theme of determinism. These statements are developed largely through images and completely different time periods, particularly those of the Romantic and Enlightenment eraıs. Tom Stoppard uses the theme of determinism to show how the ideas of the Romantic era and the present day have gone in a circle. And that even though we get more and more advanced everyday, Stoppard shows us that despite our constant advancement, our basic ideas have remained unchanged. Author Tom Stoppard portrays this belief of a time cycle through the image of the apple juxtaposed with the image of the garden.

In Arcadia, Tom Stoppard uses a scientific view of determinism along with a religious view on determinism in order to allow the reader to see similarities in ideas between the Romantic era and the present day. Religious determinism in Arcadia is shown to have to do with God/fate, predestination, and the future whereas the scientific view has to do with Newton, and with biological determinism. Although both stories do use both aspects of determinism, it is usually the story from 1809 using the scientific determinism whereas in the present day


³No more you can, time must needs run backward,

onward mixing as we go, disorder out of disorder

In the present, determinism is first introduced to us by Chloe in still a scientific view. ³Thatıs what I think. The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean itıs trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people fancying people who arenıt supposed to be in that part of the plan.² (Stoppard, 73) In this quote, Chloe is telling us that Newtonıs ideas are still the same now in the present as they were in the past, just slightly altered, as I said before.

motion, what becomes of free will?...Godıs will.² (Stoppard, 5)

In the scientific view of determinism, the image of the apple is first associated with Newton to introduce the characters opinions of Newton and his discoveries. One of Newtonıs most famous discoveries takes us, ³All the way back to the apple in the garden.² (Stoppard, 74) This discovery was the gravitational pull. When Newton discovered this, an apple landed on his head which made him come to a conclusion that there is a gravitational pull. So, the apple is used by Stoppard to show how Newtonıs discoveries, although slightly changed, have stayed the same.



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