Ghost in the Shell

Oshii Mamoru’s Ghost in the Shell explores philosophical issues between the body, soul, and technology. While an aesthetically pleasing product of the science fiction genre, the film remarkably blends technology with religion and spirituality. It follows Kusanagi, a cyborg assassin working for Section 9, who, along with her team, is on a hunt to track down an anonymous hacker known as the Puppet Master. He is able to implant false memories in human bodies and, as a result, Kusanagi struggles with the effects these false memories have on her identity. Japanese literature analysts, Susan Napier and Charles Inouye, have two distinct interpretations of the film. While Napier focuses on self-identity in a technologically advanced world, Inouye emphasizes…

“Humanity has underestimated the consequences computerization.” These words from the man-made sentience Project 2501 in Ghost in the Shell (1995) serve as a warning to society. The proliferation of technology in the modern world has accompanied discussions regarding the implications of increasingly advanced technology for human civilization. Many writers and filmmakers have contributed to such discourse using science fiction literature to illustrate issues that might arise with our rapid shift…

Cyborgs throughout science fiction have been presented in a variety of ways- from their appearance to the purpose of their existence; their plasticity enables them to serve as allegories of race, society and politics that concern both the present and the future. Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell uses the cyborgs to create these allegories by bringing forward the binaries of the East/West, white/non-white and the male/female. By examining how these binaries are presented in Ghost in the Shell, we…

Over the last fifty years, whitewashing has become a disastrous word people used to associate with the film industry. As the global Another key thing to remember is that throughout the series, changes were made to suggest different possible storylines. Ghost in the Shell TV series varies from the video game’s version thus the portrayal of Major Motoko Kusanagi diverges from time to time (Wikipedia). Moreover, Scarlett Johansson is only being referred to as ‘Major’ in the film adaptation. Hence,…

Frankenstein’s monster is wholly organic, while the donkeys are organic except for one modification and robots from Ghost in the Shell are entirely artificial. Non-human intelligence has moved from the realm of biology to that of computer science. This trend is to be expected, given the relentless pace of mechanization and automation that society has gone through over time. It is even further explained by the fact that when written, Frankenstein was set in the past, “Donkeys to Bald Pate” in its…

come for the gardener he came for his master. structured paragraph In the poem Death is is wearing black. First of all black is a very shallow color that has no feelings it is just a sad color with nothing vivid about it. In the poem it is said that death is a thin as a scythe it is because in pictures Death uses a scythe to get the people that need to die. finally i would personify Death as a sad, faceless body that has hidden feeling behind his hard outer shell. As one can see Death is…

In The Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses conch shell to symbolize authority and the rules that keep civilization together. When the conch shell finally shatters it signifies the loss of order and civility in humanity. The conch shell represents civilizing forces coming together like when Ralph blows the conch after finding it and other boys coming to where Ralph was and feeling some type of security with him. There are a lot of different active themes in this story and some of that go…

Ghost Hearts Doris A. Taylor, inventor/creator of the ghost hearts constantly harvest organs from the newly dead by re-engineering them. Doris is the director of the regenerative Medicine Research for the center of Cell and Organ Biotechnology at the Texas Heart Institute. Dr. Taylor worked on methods of decellularization and in 2008 she perfected the method. Decellularization is taking all the cells out of the organ leaving it with the lipids, sugar, and proteins. Ghost heart or a ghost-like…

due to the change in food habit of predator which they feed on less prey. Thus, the communities between organisms are dependent on each other in their living environment and the equilibrium between the communities is used to biotic and abiotic factor. For this assignment organized, an aquatic ecosystem of freshwater was set up using one aquatic plants and five different aquatic animals. Elodea act as the producer in this main food web while the aquatic species used were small Koi, Ghost shrimp,…

Why does Hollywood have few ethnic actors in the lead roles? In modern day films it seems that Asian American actors never get the spotlight they deserve. “Whitewashing,” a term used to describe when a role of an ethnic minority is portrayed by a white individual. This is clearly displayed in the filmmaking industry of Hollywood. The deprivation of ethnic roles and movies still exists in the shadows of Hollywood. Hollywood’s history of whitewashing may seem to have diminished, however it still…