Similarities Between Frankenstein And Blade Runner

Frankenstein and Blade Runner are two texts that present similar and different messages, which are either influenced or not by time and changing context. This indicates the statement “Frankenstein and Blade Runner share much, yet time and changing contexts have ensured they are two very different texts” is equally accurate and inaccurate.
The similarities that contradict the statement are evident from the consequence of rejecting creations, the ultimate death of both creators and the nobility of the creations in accepting responsibility for their actions. In contrast, the differences between the texts influenced by time and changing contexts are seen in the distinct definitions of life regarding what makes us human, the ending and clearly, the different forms of both texts.
First and foremost, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in a novel format in 1816 as it was the primary intellectual medium of the 19th Century; a means of communicating philosophical beliefs to the literate. However, after the
However, this feature contradicts the statement as it is also intrinsic in Blade Runner where Tyrell replaces god by creating replicants - the creationist concept is not shaped differently by time and changing contexts.
Primarily, in the world of Frankenstein nature is untouched physically and there is no awareness of the consequences the Enlightenment could have on nature itself. The age of science had not taken shape and no environmental problems were threatening. Therefore in Frankenstein, Shelley’s Romanticist ideas influence the definition of what makes us human. From the monster’s interaction with nature in the metaphor “the pleasant sunshine…restored me to…tranquillity”, we see that humanity originates from close contact with nature