Context of composer’s powerfully affects form and value with an appreciation of the significance of context allowing for the representation of ideas and reflections of human concerns, continuing to resonate through time.
Mary Shelley’s 1818 epistolary text Frankenstein highlights her concerns towards natural philosophy, while comparably, Ridley Scott’s 1992, tech noir film Blade Runner delineates a dystopic future world reflecting mass commercialisation and globalisation of the 1980’s.
Central ideas common to both texts are positioned around the unbridled use of technology, creationism and fears towards natural philosophy and future inhumanity it brings, together with idea of the critique of the social system and industrial revolution …show more content…
‘…Sudden I beheld a stream of fire… soon as the dazzling light vanished, the oak had disappeared… I never beheld anything so utterly destroyed.’ Scott proposes this similarly suggesting God’s power of creation is usurped by the hubris of scientific man with the consequence perceived as sinful, constructing fear and guilt within creators. Similar to Frankenstein’s creature, Scott’s replicant Roy Batty fights against his rights and own request; “I want more life”, which is refused. This coincidentally demonstrating that mutually the creator and creation both lack an important part of life. This is then further supported by the close up shots of both Tyrell and Batty in the meet the maker scene, as the shots on each man are equivalent in size. However Frankenstein and Tyrell don’t care for their creations in the way Prometheus cared for …show more content…
Shelley’s epistolary text uses the monster’s narrative as a revenue of critiquing her own society. Correspondingly Scott too uses creations alike humanity to portray the true meaning of human, allowing insights to the replicants artificial functioning, in turn encouraging us to revaluate our life choices, our use of technology along with the ways we treat parallel humanity.
The supernatural in Shelley’s text symbolizes the authorized society, while the ultramodern cityscape in Blade Runner becomes the symbolizing device, demonstrating social division and power in relationships. Shelley’s conception becomes a guileless witness who’s uneducated perspective empowers Shelley to revaluate her understanding of humanity.
After listening to Felix, the creation becomes aware of life further than the cottage ‘the strange system of human society was explained to me. I heard of the division of property, of immense wealth and squalid poverty; of rank, descent, and noble blood.’ This inequality of humankind astonishes the monster, with his inability to understand the division of the social system, with further realisation that without intimate connections or owning’s his place in society is that of a ‘vagabond and
Mary Shelley’s 1818 epistolary text Frankenstein highlights her concerns towards natural philosophy, while comparably, Ridley Scott’s 1992, tech noir film Blade Runner delineates a dystopic future world reflecting mass commercialisation and globalisation of the 1980’s.
Central ideas common to both texts are positioned around the unbridled use of technology, creationism and fears towards natural philosophy and future inhumanity it brings, together with idea of the critique of the social system and industrial revolution …show more content…
‘…Sudden I beheld a stream of fire… soon as the dazzling light vanished, the oak had disappeared… I never beheld anything so utterly destroyed.’ Scott proposes this similarly suggesting God’s power of creation is usurped by the hubris of scientific man with the consequence perceived as sinful, constructing fear and guilt within creators. Similar to Frankenstein’s creature, Scott’s replicant Roy Batty fights against his rights and own request; “I want more life”, which is refused. This coincidentally demonstrating that mutually the creator and creation both lack an important part of life. This is then further supported by the close up shots of both Tyrell and Batty in the meet the maker scene, as the shots on each man are equivalent in size. However Frankenstein and Tyrell don’t care for their creations in the way Prometheus cared for …show more content…
Shelley’s epistolary text uses the monster’s narrative as a revenue of critiquing her own society. Correspondingly Scott too uses creations alike humanity to portray the true meaning of human, allowing insights to the replicants artificial functioning, in turn encouraging us to revaluate our life choices, our use of technology along with the ways we treat parallel humanity.
The supernatural in Shelley’s text symbolizes the authorized society, while the ultramodern cityscape in Blade Runner becomes the symbolizing device, demonstrating social division and power in relationships. Shelley’s conception becomes a guileless witness who’s uneducated perspective empowers Shelley to revaluate her understanding of humanity.
After listening to Felix, the creation becomes aware of life further than the cottage ‘the strange system of human society was explained to me. I heard of the division of property, of immense wealth and squalid poverty; of rank, descent, and noble blood.’ This inequality of humankind astonishes the monster, with his inability to understand the division of the social system, with further realisation that without intimate connections or owning’s his place in society is that of a ‘vagabond and