How has your study of Frankenstein and Blade Runner deepened your understanding of the ways the characters within a text are vehicles through which composers explore the values of their time? A comparative study of texts and contexts show how composers use characters to demonstrate the impact that the values of individuals have on the world. Despite a significant time difference between the novel‚ Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus‚ written by Mary Shelley in 1818‚ and the film‚ Blade Runner
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MACBETH AND FRANKENSTEIN QUEST FOR POWER (MACBETH WANTS TO BE KING‚ VICTOR WANTS TO CREATE LIFE) -Both have great ambition‚ get carried away and do unethical things‚ resulting in the death of innocent people HALLUCINATIONS -Macbeth visions the dagger floating‚ and hears voices talking to him after he murders Duncan -Victor thinks he sees the creature‚ but he ’s not there SUPERNATURAL -Witches in Macbeth -The Creature in Frankenstein DISLOYALTY -Macbeth is disloyal to the previous king (Murders
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What insights have you gained about humanity from the comparative study of texts and context that you have undertaken? The film Blade Runner by Ridley Scott and the gothic novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley reveal key insights concerning humanity through the contrasting texts. The composers successfully introduce and deal with the issues of humanity by challenging the established values of their times reflected to the responder through the provocative language and film techniques. Both texts are
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To what extent has your comparative study of Frankenstein and Blade Runner developed your understanding of the personal struggles experienced by individuals? Both Frankenstein and Blade Runner were created at times of great innovation and technological advancement. Although the texts have different and are separated by 200 years‚ they both share a concern to explore this issue and come to very similar conclusions. Both texts claim that to be truly human is to manifest qualities of self awareness
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Macbeth Comparative Essay Sign up for your choice of topic in class on Friday Dec.10. Limit FOUR students per topic. Instructions: A) Referring to the play‚ the prompts provided for you‚ and at least one academic secondary source‚ write a five paragraph (minimum) to seven paragraph (maximum) comparative essay on ONE of the following topics. You may ask: HOW DO I DO THAT? Read on: B) Examine the topics by going to the accompanying links and reading the annotated summaries of actual essays
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Macbeth is the protagonist in the play “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare; He is a tragic hero causing himself pain from his own flaws‚ leading to his death. Where as Frankenstein’s monster‚ the creation of the protagonist Victor in “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley is a noble savage‚ an outsider and the innate goodness of humanity when free from the corrupting influence of civilization. With out this corruption he would have been a civilized‚ wonderful individual. This opinion and the statements above
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In William Shakespeare’s two most popular works of art‚ Macbeth and Hamlet‚ several parts of the plays are similar. These two plays can be compared easily because Shakespeare used the same formula for each of his tragedies. These tragedies consisted of deeper concepts of the natural struggles that face mankind. The tragedies use supernatural incidents to intrigue the reader’s interest and included in the play is a hero who has a tragic flaw‚ which eventually causes him to make a fatal mistake. Throughout
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The following is a critical essay of Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein" and Charlotte Bronte’s "Jane Eyre" using Romanticism as a basis. I decided that I would pick those aspects of romanticism that I found most prevalent and interesting in the texts. After reading these stories‚ I realized that there were many ideas relating to Romanticism in the texts‚ some of them being variations of its definition; yet‚ they relate nonetheless. Nature is a common theme in Romanticism. There is often an increasing
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But science can be dangerous because something can always go wrong. In Frankenstein‚ by Mary Shelley‚ Victor creates a creature that he though would never be able to think on its own‚ but he later discovers that his creation had a mind of its own and eventually led Victor to his on demise. Throughout both Cat’s Cradle and Frankenstein science plays an important role in the religion of Bokononism and Victors creation of Frankenstein. Vonnegut uses satire that is both dark and humorous to pursue this
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While all texts originate from the imagination of their composer‚ they also explore and address the issues of their contexts. This is clearly the case with Mary Shelley’s gothic novel Frankenstein (1818) which draws upon galvanism and the industrial movement and Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner (1992) which has been heavily influenced by Thatcherism and Reagonomics. Despite there being over 150 years between their compositions both these texts explore several common themes such as mankind’s loss
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