Frankestein and Blade Runner Comparitive Study
In what ways does a comparative study accentuate the distinctive contexts of Frankenstein and Blade Runner? Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner are texts that explore the same underlying anxieties and values in humanity. Even though they are constructed nearly 200 years apart, the same feelings exist. At the time of composition, and, through their literary work, the authors examine their place in the world. With the proliferation of scientific technology, economic and sociological concerns, these texts reconsider and teach in their didactic styles about man’s preoccupation with advancement, without respecting nature.
Nature and its interaction with human emotions are central concerns for both “Frankenstein” and “Blade Runner”. Romantics’ nature is depicted as a healing power and a source of subject and image; in blade runner, the natural worlds pleasing qualities are seen to be abused, e.g. of this is in the opening, where a dark, decayed and dystopian Neo noir world is shown. The detrimental consequences due to carelessness when dealing with the natural world, resulted in the disappearance of its beauty which was an idea constantly feared and warned of by Shelley in Frankenstein.
Mary Shelley was romanticist due to her nature and as she was constantly surrounded by romantics. Her father, William Godwin was a political activist and a radical who wrote “political justice (and its influence on morals and happiness)”. Political justice which addressed politics’ influence on general virtue and happiness and how an anarchist society might work was extremely influential at its time. Mary’s mother, Mary Wollstonecraft was a feminist as she was an advocate of women’s rights. She wrote many books in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education. Shelley also grew up surrounded by great romantic poets such as Coleridge, Keats, Wordsworth and Shelley. All these
Nature and its interaction with human emotions are central concerns for both “Frankenstein” and “Blade Runner”. Romantics’ nature is depicted as a healing power and a source of subject and image; in blade runner, the natural worlds pleasing qualities are seen to be abused, e.g. of this is in the opening, where a dark, decayed and dystopian Neo noir world is shown. The detrimental consequences due to carelessness when dealing with the natural world, resulted in the disappearance of its beauty which was an idea constantly feared and warned of by Shelley in Frankenstein.
Mary Shelley was romanticist due to her nature and as she was constantly surrounded by romantics. Her father, William Godwin was a political activist and a radical who wrote “political justice (and its influence on morals and happiness)”. Political justice which addressed politics’ influence on general virtue and happiness and how an anarchist society might work was extremely influential at its time. Mary’s mother, Mary Wollstonecraft was a feminist as she was an advocate of women’s rights. She wrote many books in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education. Shelley also grew up surrounded by great romantic poets such as Coleridge, Keats, Wordsworth and Shelley. All these