Essay Comparing Frankenstein And Blade Runner

Have you ever seen the movie Blade Runner written by Ridley Scott or read the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelly? Well if you have read one of them amazing stories then you will know what I am going to talk about. I am going to talk about how those two stories are so much alike. In both of these stories there is a monster that is considered unacceptable by our “normal” social standards; they are deemed outcasts by the people who are hunting for them. People are afraid of the monsters unnatural abilities. These monsters show anger and frustrations making them seem scary but all they are trying to do is communicate. These stories about the monsters show the same feelings that the monsters have toward people because of the way they are getting treated by others. They both have superhuman powers and appear similar to regular human form. In Frankenstein Victor comes face to face with the monster on the summit, as soon as Victor sees the monster he knows there is no way he could stand up to him. “I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance advancing towards …show more content…
In the book Frankenstein the setting is used to show how he distanced himself from the world. He doesn’t want part of the world that his creator lives in, so he goes and lives in unusual places, the Alps. In blade Runner this takes place in 2019, and their world is filled with greedy people and stupidity. The people believe that they can interfere with nature and that shows another act of “playing god”. These stories were trying to show what happens when science and technology go awry. Blade Runner has more law based actions involving the environment and politics. In Frankenstein the monster is not as identifiable as in the Blade Runner. Shelly leaves us wondering “Who really is the monster?” “Who really is the villain?” Both of these show the destruction abilities of human