Frankenstein Greed Quotes

Despite a 164 year contextual barrier, both Shelley’s Frankenstein and Scott’s Blade Runner foreshadow humanity’s downfall through employing predictions of the future to make social commentaries about their society in its context. Through concurrent study of both texts as reflections of their respective romantic and postmodern contexts, (universal ideas associated with humanities ambition for scientific knowledge and the erosion of morality stemming from humanity’s flawed nature and greed are espoused/we come to a heightened understanding of the significant dangers due to humanity’s greed and flawed nature through humanities ambition for scientific knowledge and the erosion of morality.)
Written at the turn of the industrial revolution, Shelley

Scott establishes the opening scene, “Los Angeles 2019” with a panning aerial shot, showing the red and grey sulphurous smoke alongside the plumes of fire, alluding to Hades. The doomsday imagery of the post-apocalyptic dystopia represents the consequences of humanity’s natural ambition for the pursuit of knowledge, paralleling to the destruction caused by the creature in Frankenstein. Tyrell, the ‘god of biomechanics’ epitomises the human thirst for power, particularly through science and technology, voicing that ‘commerce is our goal’. His reference to roy as quite a prize accentuates the consumerist nature of society prevalent in the 1980’s. similar to shelley’s yellow eye motif which alludes to the distortion of societies views as a result of unchecked scientific advancement, scott’s use of thick glasses are a visual metaphor for Tyrell’s myopic hubris, which did not foresee the consequences of his greed and ambition, as death is epitomised by the gouging of his eyes. Thus, (We come to a heightened understanding of the dangers arising from humanity’s constant pursuit of knowledge which stem from our flawed nature./ Scott elucidates the consequences of the constant pursuit of knowledge as a result of humanity’s greed and flawed

In Frankenstein, victor’s irrational decision to depart Geneva sees his “spirits and hopes rise” even as he leaves a distraught family, establishing his egocentric ideals and moral fallacy. Meanwhile, shelley depicts the creature as similar to humans through its manner and desire to learn, however, due to his grotesque appearance emphasised through colour imagery ‘yellow skin… and straight black lips’, he is excluded by society and labelled a ‘demoniacal corpse’. This provokes questioning of human morality, and whether the creature is classified as a human. Alluding to Milton’s Paradise Lost, the creature states, ‘I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel’. As an eloquent rhetorician, he employs literary devices such as oxymoron and parallelisms. in stark contrast Victor’s speeches are absurdly melodramatic, with words “expressive of furious detestation and contempt”, reflecting the violence of his feelings. Through the juxtaposition of their language, with Victor’s uncivilised, savaged passions contrasting to the creature’s eloquent, harmonious arrangement of words, Victor’s superiority and intelligence is usurped by his creation. (Through Shelley, we come to a heightened understanding of the significant dangers of humanity’s flawed nature as it provokes a lack of