One Of The Most Enigmatic Great Books Ever Made, 2001 Brought Us To Our Knees Wi

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Term Paper Title	One Of The Most Enigmatic Great Books Ever Made, 2001 Brought Us To Our Knees Wi
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One of the most enigmatic great books ever made, 2001 brought us to our knees with of
the most fertile and original mind ever to have graced the genre of science fiction, Arthur C.
Clarke. There are three movements to 2001 that all involve man’s struggle with his own
inferiority's and ingnorances to achieve the highest form of evolution , but they are not the
conventional three acts that critics and audiences expect to find in typical science fiction books.
Each of the acts involve carefully selected examples to represent multiple ideas. The connection of
the three movements of 2001 is not immediately apparent, but it is nonetheless logical (Quote from
Stanley Kubrick from HBO interview).
The first movement concerns itself with the black monolith, that enigmatic geometric shape
placed on both the earth and the moon some four million years ago. The "Dawn of Man" sequence,
in which, according to Arthur C. Clarke, incredibly advanced extraterrestrial beings give our
anthropoid ancestors the concept of tools, ends with one of the most brilliant matched cuts in
literary history. Clarke keeps this part of the book open to any interpretation possible by which lets
the reader decide what to believe instead of spoon feeding them.
The second movement, at one of the longest periods in the book, deals with the central
conflict between HAL, the Discovery's supercomputer, and Dave Bowman, captain of the
exploration team. This act represents life and its struggle to survive. HAL is represented as the
transcendation of our definition of ultimate conciousness. We are left to wonder and question when
the teacher becomes the student. Not surprisingly, many readers find HAL the most interesting
character in the film. That which has the power to save also has the power to destroy, and since
both of these are HAL's powers, he will inevitably be more memorable. But if HAL is the more
interesting character, the fact remains that it is Dave Bowman who is the hero of 2001. He proves
himself superior to HAL by doing something quintessentially human -- he innovates, blowing
himself through Discovery's hatc...

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