Bladerunner and Frankenstein Analysis
In Frankenstein: Victor Frankenstein creates his monster because he wants to be the first to create life, he wants the fame and to create a name for himself. In Blade Runner: Tyrell is producing these replicants for the money, he doesn't care about the ethics If you are relating this to context you could talk about how in Mary Shelley's time, society were thriving after the effects of the Industrial Revolution and many scientific theories. Shelley is predicting what the effects of these discoveries may have on society and the creators. Blade Runner shows the affects of the breakthrough in computers and how we let machines get bigger and better than us. Quote from Tyrell - "more human than human is our motto". Both Shelley and Scott make numerous references to the natural world. However, Shelley implies the importance and the beauty of nature, where as Scott emphasises the absence of nature as the result of a careless world. An important link between the two texts is the isolation from nature resulting in the loss of humanity. Scott displays that humanity is intrinsically linked to nature. He cleverly uses the lack of youth, plants, new life and seasons to symbolise the isolation from nature.