Idea Frankenstein ': Bladerunner's Context Blade Runner'
Idea Frankenstein Context Bladerunner Context
Doppelganger, defining qualities of humans and monsters • Doppelgangers confront
• Ambiguity of narrative: M not real unless F story verified → connection between the two (Gothic)
• Quest for knowledge, revenge, masculinity, eloquence, love of nature: M: “The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal nature bade me weep no more” and F: “my spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature”
• Humanity vs. ambition
• Solidarity vs. connection
• Blurring between the two – creativity, logic, beauty, abhorrence
• Abomination as human → moral dilemma. Isolated, Laconian figure during monologue evokes pity. Rhetorical questions “Why should I pity man more than he pities me? Shall I respect man when he condemns me?”
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Country, industrial revolution
• Gothicism – nature, horror, monsters within society
• Science overthrowing God – still human? • Doppelgangers confront
• Knowledge vs. instinct
• Group vs. isolated genius
• Deckard ‘becomes’ a replicant
• Replicants positioned as logical, responsive , intuitive, beautiful: Z: vitality; L: revenge, fear, brutality; P: Roy’s kiss, positioning of tongue, immature, instinctive, honest kiss with R in front of S; R: instinct, reason, curiosity, humour, understanding and acceptance
• Z: public place: mash of culture with their hats on, no connection except murder and death
• L: D’s doppelganger? R (empathy and connection to D) shoots him
• P: death of abandoned toy: materialism killed her: laughing doll
• R: renewal, baptism, dove, blue light sky, lasting connection to D • Impersonal information society
• Migration – different cultures → globalisation
• Contraception•
Responsibility of creator and ethical responsibilities of scientists • F vs.
Doppelganger, defining qualities of humans and monsters • Doppelgangers confront
• Ambiguity of narrative: M not real unless F story verified → connection between the two (Gothic)
• Quest for knowledge, revenge, masculinity, eloquence, love of nature: M: “The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal nature bade me weep no more” and F: “my spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature”
• Humanity vs. ambition
• Solidarity vs. connection
• Blurring between the two – creativity, logic, beauty, abhorrence
• Abomination as human → moral dilemma. Isolated, Laconian figure during monologue evokes pity. Rhetorical questions “Why should I pity man more than he pities me? Shall I respect man when he condemns me?”
• …show more content…
Country, industrial revolution
• Gothicism – nature, horror, monsters within society
• Science overthrowing God – still human? • Doppelgangers confront
• Knowledge vs. instinct
• Group vs. isolated genius
• Deckard ‘becomes’ a replicant
• Replicants positioned as logical, responsive , intuitive, beautiful: Z: vitality; L: revenge, fear, brutality; P: Roy’s kiss, positioning of tongue, immature, instinctive, honest kiss with R in front of S; R: instinct, reason, curiosity, humour, understanding and acceptance
• Z: public place: mash of culture with their hats on, no connection except murder and death
• L: D’s doppelganger? R (empathy and connection to D) shoots him
• P: death of abandoned toy: materialism killed her: laughing doll
• R: renewal, baptism, dove, blue light sky, lasting connection to D • Impersonal information society
• Migration – different cultures → globalisation
• Contraception•
Responsibility of creator and ethical responsibilities of scientists • F vs.