Jurassic Park | Themes
Vanity and the human capacity for deception — of the self as well as others — in the service of greed make for a frightening combination. Certainly it seems like vanity to walk into the great unknown with an inadequate understanding of what can go wrong and a refusal to listen to the available experts by denigrating them into mere "hired hands," yet this is just what is done by John Hammond, a wealthy eccentric and his partners, venture capitalists, who have bankrolled Jurassic Park. They have allowed themselves to be persuaded to make the venture possible by Hammond, a sort of...
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