order to more accurately connect to their context‚ and reflect the concerns and values of the time. Through the comparative study of Mary Shelley’s 1818 gothic novel Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus and Ridley Scott’s 1981 neo-noir cyberpunk film Blade Runner (Director’s Cut)‚ one can observe how in these two didactic and prescient tales‚ ideas of the dangers of unrestrained scientific progress and the Promethean overreaching of man are explored‚ with differences in values presented reflecting the
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mass audience. In the task of comparing and contrasting the novel of “Dracula” to film extracts of “Bram Stoker’s Dracula”‚ values‚ meaning and context discovered lie between discrepancy and similarity. The change from differing mediums‚ novel and film‚ reveal characteristics and possibilities of narratives. Through the advancement of technology‚ modern writers have gained a cinematic approach to their writing. However Dracula‚ written in 1987 by Abraham Stoker‚ where the introduction of technology
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After a few months‚ we finally moved into our actual house. I unpacked quickly eager and excited to find my blades. It was the beginning of my 8th grade year when I noticed that I had started cutting deeper and deeper. It was leaving marks on my skin‚ but nothing too noticeable. I went to the doctors for a heart problem and they put me on a Beta Blocker which slows your heart down. After a couple of days of having the pills‚ I stopped taking them and began to save them up. Late one night‚ I found
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portrayal of women‚ in my opinion‚ is that we are either objects of desire or subservient to the more "superior" gender‚ that is‚ men. In Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Theresa Cha’s Dictee‚ women are‚ indeed‚ portrayed in different ways. I want to compare the representation of women from both works of art. Ridley Scott’s science fiction classic‚ Blade Runner‚ is a story that takes place in the future- 2019 to be exact. There are two things that struck me about this film‚ the first being that its
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Both Mary Shelley’s 1818 gothic novel Frankenstein and Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner explore the dehumanising effects of technology. Although the texts differ in context they connect through their exploration of transcendent societal concerns. A key theme explored in both texts is the dangers associated with unrestricted and dehumanising technology. Both texts depict characters corrupted and challenged by the dehumanising effects of technology‚ whilst simultaneously depicting settings and
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Dracula- Told by Different Characters By Eva Serrano Reisner I step into the castle‚ Fooled by hospitality. Thinking that this man‚ Who is standing next to me Is a gentleman. Then I see that this man is not human. His smile with pointed teeth‚ His lips that redden‚ Every time I see him. One day I saw too much. I attacked this man but‚ It didn’t so much‚ As give him a scratch. I wake up in a hospital‚ Dazed and confused. Oh‚ where is my beautiful fiancé
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Furthermore‚ the contrast between the creature and Frankenstein is the used to explore man’s moral limitations in the creator capacity. Similarly‚ in Ridley Scott’s 1982 noir film‚ Blade Runner: The Director’s Cut‚ parallels with Shelley’s novel are seen in his characterisation and
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Blade Runner: What is the Future of Western Society? Alexander Urazov WRIT 140 10/25/10 Jay Fisher Assignment #3 Ridley Scott’s 1982 cult science fiction classic‚ Blade Runner‚ has received both acclaim and criticism for its debatable vision of the future. Set in a 2019 post nuclear war Los Angles‚ this dark‚ decaying‚ futuristic world is home to the remaining humans of earth as the more privileged have fled to bountiful off world colonies. Enslaved Androids (called replicants)‚ manufactured
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Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) are two prime examples of how similar concerns may differ in representation due to varying times and contexts. Both Shelley and Scott strongly explore the essence of humanity alongside science and development‚ cautioning the audience about the concerns of these explorations as a possible path of severance with the natural order and the seemingly inexistent future of mankind due to their concerns and issues present in their time. Frankenstein and Blade Runner explore
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Angela Cain June 21‚ 2013 Camille Lizarribar Do Replicants Dream of Being Human? With its exaggerated scenes of a dystopian America of the year 2020‚ Blade Runner is at once a cautionary film that details the dangers of human ambition and a thought-provoking challenge to the orthodox notions of what makes one “human.” There is no check-list or group of qualifications that are communally agreed upon that render one a human being; there is‚ however‚ no shortage of debate and quarrelling.
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