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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 …show more content…

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 …show more content…

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

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In this narrative, two movies, Blade Runner (1982) and Brave New World (1980) are analyzed on their postmodernist aspects. Both are dystopic films that predict humanity’s future from the circumstantial fears present on their times. The movie Blade Runner by Ridley Scott was a dystopian film set in the city of Los Angeles in 2019 and was actually derived from the book of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Mr. Phillip Dick. In the film, nuclear pollution and atomic waste aftermath pushed the citizens to go off world.

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Alike Shelley, he cautions his audience about a civilisation which has been corrupted by science and technology – however, while Shelley’s text results from the contradictions in ethics of her context in Romanticism and Rationalism, Scott deduces the late 20th century conundrum of scientific knowledge as a commercial product. Thus, Bladerunner and Shelley’s Frankenstein both result in a discussion of contextual ethical dilemmas involving the exploitation of science for personal

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In the Gothic Novel, Frankenstein, by Mary W. Shelley, the moral conscience of the two main characters, Victor Frankenstein and the Creature is a prominent theme throughout the novel. The novel explores the consequences of reckless ambition and the responsibilities that come with creating life. Victor's ambition and the subsequent abandonment of his creation lead to devastating outcomes, while the Creature's yearning for acceptance and love exposes the dark side of human nature. Through the contrasting experiences of Victor and the Creature, Mary Shelley highlights the importance of moral conscience and the consequences of failing to exercise it. Both Victor and the Creature exhibit moral conscience by acknowledging the ungodly actions they do throughout the novel.

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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley tells the story of passionate scientist Victor Frankenstein, whose devotion to science leads him to become obsessed with creating life, but his good intentions lead to a lifelong conflict with his problematic creation. This creature causes pain and suffering for Victor by killing his friends and family, which causes him to feel responsible for their deaths. Ambition’s dark and addictive side got the best of Victor, who became blinded by dreams of glory. Similarly, Don Quixote fails to identify the risks of ambition while exploring Spain. He wants to be a famous knight so badly that he begins to hallucinate obstacles that he must conquer.

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Rarely are we purely good or purely evil and the same goes for many characters in literature whose complexities are often used to establish and develop a meaning of the work as a whole. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the protagonist, Victor Frankenstein’s creation is at the heart of the novel being the origin of every plot point and proves to be the most morally ambiguous character. The creature’s moral ambiguity, especially in regards to social interaction, works towards revealing that without proper guidance, we are prone to imperfection. With absolutely no instruction or education from his creator, the creature runs into the wild blind to what he may encounter being as ugly as he is and how to go about these foreign circumstances. His

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