Blade Runner And Frankenstein Comparison Essay
Module A Essay Plan
Introduction:
- Texts; o Blade Runner – Ridley Scott (1982) o Frankenstein – Mary Shelley (1818) - Both texts deal with issues of nature, monstrosity, creator vs creation and man playing God, as well as challenging the notions of traditional humanity. - The issues dealt with in the text can be clearly linked with the context in which they were written. - Despite being written in different centuries one can draw clear links between these two contexts and the impact it has on the text. o “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.” ▪ Martin Luther King Jr.
Main Body:
- Frankenstein (Shelley [1818]) - Text o Romantic, …show more content…
• Promethean Myth – Prometheus defies and changes the natural order. ▪ “It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; the physical secrets of the world” • Victor’s craving for power through creation overreaches what man should do. ▪ “A new species would bless me as its creator and source” • Direct reference to being seen and revered as a God by his creation. ▪ "Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow." [Can use perhaps the second half of this quote] • Shows the negative aspects of reaching too far, how much better it would have been to not meddle with the natural order. ▪ “None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of …show more content…
▪ “Alas! Why does man boast sensibilities superior to those apparent in the brute” - Context o The Enlightenment (1600s – 1789) ▪ A period of a reformation of thinking in society that shunned the purely religious explanation for all things in life and prompted innovation in science as well as philosophy. • “None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.” ▪ Progress became important during this time, as can be seen in the rise of scientific innovation, with early Enlightenment inventions (1600s) like, • The microscope • Thermometer • Barometer o Etc. ▪ More importantly towards the end of the Enlightenment (late 1700s) a revolution of thinking was occurring which proposed, • The rise of atheism and deism – a shift away from traditional religion and oppressed thinking of the
Introduction:
- Texts; o Blade Runner – Ridley Scott (1982) o Frankenstein – Mary Shelley (1818) - Both texts deal with issues of nature, monstrosity, creator vs creation and man playing God, as well as challenging the notions of traditional humanity. - The issues dealt with in the text can be clearly linked with the context in which they were written. - Despite being written in different centuries one can draw clear links between these two contexts and the impact it has on the text. o “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.” ▪ Martin Luther King Jr.
Main Body:
- Frankenstein (Shelley [1818]) - Text o Romantic, …show more content…
• Promethean Myth – Prometheus defies and changes the natural order. ▪ “It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; the physical secrets of the world” • Victor’s craving for power through creation overreaches what man should do. ▪ “A new species would bless me as its creator and source” • Direct reference to being seen and revered as a God by his creation. ▪ "Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow." [Can use perhaps the second half of this quote] • Shows the negative aspects of reaching too far, how much better it would have been to not meddle with the natural order. ▪ “None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of …show more content…
▪ “Alas! Why does man boast sensibilities superior to those apparent in the brute” - Context o The Enlightenment (1600s – 1789) ▪ A period of a reformation of thinking in society that shunned the purely religious explanation for all things in life and prompted innovation in science as well as philosophy. • “None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.” ▪ Progress became important during this time, as can be seen in the rise of scientific innovation, with early Enlightenment inventions (1600s) like, • The microscope • Thermometer • Barometer o Etc. ▪ More importantly towards the end of the Enlightenment (late 1700s) a revolution of thinking was occurring which proposed, • The rise of atheism and deism – a shift away from traditional religion and oppressed thinking of the