Chaos Theory: The Butterfly Effect In The Novel

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silas marner is a great example of chaos theory, specifically the butterfly effect. It displays how necessary each event is for the lives of all to continue. If any of the events in the novel did not occur the entire story would be thrown off course within the novel all the characters have an impact on each others lives. With the slightest variation in the actions of any of the main characters, multiple characters would either have no purpose or possibly be dead.

In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result ina large differences in a later state. One may ask how does this complex scientific theory relate to a simple

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