1. Science is the new way of life and religion is becoming fiction. Basically the poem says that people began to question their world with the loss of faith. Individuals began to question their beliefs with the advancement in science, because this new knowledge gave them a better understanding of their environment. As Beach states “The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear and naked shingles of the world.”
2. "Dover Beach" speaks of loosing faith. In Frankenstein, Doctor Frankenstein losses his belief in science after his creature that he believed would set him free. Arnold states, "for the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor love." This quote shows that the world was once thought to be a safe and sacred place, but was actually defiled and unclean. This theme applies itself to Frankenstein very well. Victor Frankenstein believed in simple studies of alchemy, but learned that true science is sometimes hard to understand and even harder to control.
3. Arnold is saying that the role of religion is diminishing in our world. As our knowledge and comprehension of the forces around grows, many start to lose the other all belief in a so-called “God”. This new sense of knowledge answered many fundamental questions, but ironically destroyed many old answers and created numerous new questions.
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