Texts In Time: Blade Runner and Frankenstein Syllabus Students compare how the treatment of similar content in a pair of texts composed in different times and contexts may reflect changing values and perspectives. By considering the texts in their contexts and comparing values‚ ideas and language forms and features‚ students come to a heightened understanding of the meaning and significance of each text. Module A: Comparative Study of Texts and Context This module requires students to
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Module A Essay Plan Introduction: - Texts; o Blade Runner – Ridley Scott (1982) o Frankenstein – Mary Shelley (1818) - Both texts deal with issues of nature‚ monstrosity‚ creator vs creation and man playing God‚ as well as challenging the notions of traditional humanity. - The issues dealt with in the text can be clearly linked with the context in which they were written. - Despite being written in different centuries one can draw clear links between
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Mary Shelley’s iconic novel‚ Frankenstein‚ and Ridley Scott’s cinematographic masterpiece‚ Blade Runner‚ are‚ on the surface‚ remarkably dissimilar‚ not solely in terms of medium‚ but in absolute contextual disparity. They are‚ of course‚ very much products of their time‚ affected and inspired by the conundrums and pessimistic predictions of their own cultural and societal contexts; condemnations of each respective composer’s predictions for humanity. It is interesting to note‚ therefore‚ that both
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To what extent has your comparative study of Frankenstein and Blade Runner developed your understanding of the personal struggles experienced by individuals? Both Frankenstein and Blade Runner were created at times of great innovation and technological advancement. Although the texts have different and are separated by 200 years‚ they both share a concern to explore this issue and come to very similar conclusions. Both texts claim that to be truly human is to manifest qualities of self awareness
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of the “other” in society over time. The ‘other’ consistently poses a threat to dominance and a fear of the unknown within society‚ a perception‚ while fundamental unfounded‚ which has not changed over time. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Riddley Scott’s ‘Blade Runner’ both present the problem of otherness‚ not it’s solution‚ as they seek to explore incurable prejudices against anything contrary to established institutions. Where Shelley draws on romanticism in the rejection of the creature
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study of Frankenstein and Blade Runner deepened your understanding of the ways the characters within a text are vehicles through which composers explore the values of their time? A comparative study of texts and contexts show how composers use characters to demonstrate the impact that the values of individuals have on the world. Despite a significant time difference between the novel‚ Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus‚ written by Mary Shelley in 1818‚ and the film‚ Blade Runner‚ directed
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made with the same purpose‚ to show a monster like a human. One made in the past with smaller knowledge with technology. The other has greater technology with lots of better qualities on the monster‚ which makes it look more human like. Henry Frankenstein is a brilliant scientist who has been conducting experiments on the re-animation of lifeless bodies. He has conducted experiments on small animals and is now ready to create life in a man he has assembled from body parts he has been collecting
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present in Scott’s Blade Runner and Shelley’s Frankenstein is they believe that in the future God and society’s ethos may be one day be replaced by science and technological advances‚ through the characters Victor and Tyrell. Genesis 1:27 states that “God created humankind in his image.” A God is the creator of life
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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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whether it be social‚ cultural or historical. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and 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
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