Discuss How Both Frankenstein and Blade Runner Are Products of Their Time in the Way in Which They Are Created and in the Ideas They Explorediscuss How Both Frankenstein and Blade Runner Are Products of Their Time in
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While all texts originate from their authors own premise, the context of the time in which they were written in will impact on the outcome. This is clearly evident in Mary Shelley’s Romantic novel Frankenstein (1818) and Ridley Scott’s film noir Blade Runner (1992). Despite almost 150 years of difference, the texts explore the same issue of scientific responsibility. These texts build upon each other’s cautions of warning to humanity and become linked in time. This therefore means that both Frankenstein and Blade Runner are products of their time.
Texts have the ability to reflect and challenge powerful ideologies of the time. It is evident in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein that the personal context of Shelley forms the foundations of the novel. The Romantic Movement heavily impacted upon Shelley’s time as nature was seen as a beneficial and punishing force. Romantic writers portray nature as the greatest and most perfect force in the universe and Shelley conforms to this ideal making the novel Frankenstein a product of its time. The creator has a relationship with its creation that parallels that of a parent and a child. When a parent abandons their child, negative consequences occur on both the child and parents behalf as depicted in the novel. It is ironic that Frankenstein took nine months to create the creature. But Victor Frankenstein can be seen as a failed parent in that he did not take responsibility for his creation. The relationship between God and Adam is the exact opposite of Victor and the creation as reflected in the literary allusion of Milton’s Paradise Lost. This allows the responder to contrast differences of accepting and declining scientific responsibility and consequently acts as a didactic tale. The creature believed that he ‘ought to be thy Adam’ due to the similar circumstances of being the first creation of its kind. God fostered a sense of love in Adam which initiated the success. This is compared to Victor whose ‘beauty of the dream...
Texts have the ability to reflect and challenge powerful ideologies of the time. It is evident in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein that the personal context of Shelley forms the foundations of the novel. The Romantic Movement heavily impacted upon Shelley’s time as nature was seen as a beneficial and punishing force. Romantic writers portray nature as the greatest and most perfect force in the universe and Shelley conforms to this ideal making the novel Frankenstein a product of its time. The creator has a relationship with its creation that parallels that of a parent and a child. When a parent abandons their child, negative consequences occur on both the child and parents behalf as depicted in the novel. It is ironic that Frankenstein took nine months to create the creature. But Victor Frankenstein can be seen as a failed parent in that he did not take responsibility for his creation. The relationship between God and Adam is the exact opposite of Victor and the creation as reflected in the literary allusion of Milton’s Paradise Lost. This allows the responder to contrast differences of accepting and declining scientific responsibility and consequently acts as a didactic tale. The creature believed that he ‘ought to be thy Adam’ due to the similar circumstances of being the first creation of its kind. God fostered a sense of love in Adam which initiated the success. This is compared to Victor whose ‘beauty of the dream...