Essay on Mary Shelleys Frankenstein and Bladerunner -- Movie Film com

Similarities between Frankenstein and Bladerunner M each similarities can be found between Mary Shelleys 1816 novel, Frankenstein and the 1982 movie Bladerunner . The number of similarities between these dickens works, created more than two hundred years apart, is staggering. A cursory look at both works reveals these similarities Both stories feature a very happy person trying to play God through the creation of life. Both of the creatures were subsequently mistreated by their maker and society as a whole. In both stories, the audience is left feeling greater sympathy for the monster than for the creator. Both stories contain a very intelligent creator who seems unaw ar of the forces that they are dealing with. They are both fascinated with human life and wish to create it themselves. Victor Frankenstein states, One of the phenomena which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the structure of the human frame, and, indeed, any animal endued with life. Whence, I often aske d myself did the principle of life proceed?(pg. 51) Both creators share a fascination with where life proceeds from. Is it merely intellect? Or, as in the case of Bladerunner, are emotions the defining element of human life. Both creators are expressly interested in creating a life form touch on to human and Tyrell even wishes to create a life form superior to man. Both stories share a central theme, that the acquirement too much noesis is dangerous. Throughout Frankenstein, the reader is left with the feeling that Victors obsessive desire to defeat nature, through the creation of another life, directly led to the many tragedies that befell him, Learn from me, if not by my precept, at least by my example, how dangerous is the ac... ...g detail of its execution. (pg 219). Roy expresses to Tyrell that he has d one and only(a) undesirable things during his life that were caused because of his desire to live longer than his allotted quatern years. Both monsters express their longi ng to remain alive. Even though life has not been fair to them and fait dealt them a cruel hand, these creatures still cling to life dearly, Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.. (pg 100) Lastly both Frankensteins monster and Roy Baty state what it means to be a slave, one to his envy and rage, and the other to a human race that spurns him. ..but I was the slave, not the master, of an impulse, which I detested, yet could not disobey...Evil thence forth became my good. Works Cited Shelley, M. (1969). Frankenstein (12th ed.). Oxford Oxford University Press.