Blade Runner And Frankenstein Comparative Essay
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 cautionary tales which explore insights of humanity revealing the greed for power and political control through science and technology, need for love and affection and a need for identity and self knowledge.
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Although in both texts the monster and the replicants are not humans themselves, they present human qualities and seek for love and affection from families. However, they are unable to find this because of the dystopian worlds created by Frankenstein and Tyrell. The monster created by Frankenstein, innocent at first, is unable to find love and affection that he viewed in the family, but is instead chased out of the village. The monster’s inability to find this results in his “eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind”.The strong negative diction emphasizes the monster’s pain and suffering due to his lack of connection to a family and leads to the revenge on Frankenstein. Similarly, in Blade Runner, the replicants created by Tyrell who are “more human than human” also have an emotional capacity. This is seen in the scene of Leon Kowalski’s interview when he angrily shoots the interviewer when he is asked to describe “only the good things” about his “mother”. Being a replicant, he does not have a mother, and reacts with a greater emotional response, showing more compassion and love than the other human beings seen in the film. Both texts similarly give insight to humanity’s need for love and affection through the emotional responses caused by the created beings lack of connection with
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 cautionary tales which explore insights of humanity revealing the greed for power and political control through science and technology, need for love and affection and a need for identity and self knowledge.
Both texts similarly explore the insights …show more content…
Although in both texts the monster and the replicants are not humans themselves, they present human qualities and seek for love and affection from families. However, they are unable to find this because of the dystopian worlds created by Frankenstein and Tyrell. The monster created by Frankenstein, innocent at first, is unable to find love and affection that he viewed in the family, but is instead chased out of the village. The monster’s inability to find this results in his “eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind”.The strong negative diction emphasizes the monster’s pain and suffering due to his lack of connection to a family and leads to the revenge on Frankenstein. Similarly, in Blade Runner, the replicants created by Tyrell who are “more human than human” also have an emotional capacity. This is seen in the scene of Leon Kowalski’s interview when he angrily shoots the interviewer when he is asked to describe “only the good things” about his “mother”. Being a replicant, he does not have a mother, and reacts with a greater emotional response, showing more compassion and love than the other human beings seen in the film. Both texts similarly give insight to humanity’s need for love and affection through the emotional responses caused by the created beings lack of connection with