frankenstein and blade runner context essay

Only available on StudyMode Read full document → Save to my library The novel ‘Frankenstein’, written by Mary Shelley (1818), and Ridley Scott’s film ‘Bladerunner’ (1982), are both texts that address and thoroughly explore the issue of the role of science and technology in society and how it impacts the human race. Although they were composed in different eras, both texts were composed under the influence of industrial, scientific and technological revolution. Both ‘Frankenstein’ and ‘Bladerunner’ address the issue of how science and technological advancements, such as Galvanism, have given humans the ability to create artificial life and act as ‘God’. As life is created, the question of ‘what actually is human’ arises, and as the relationships between creator and creation are seen, audiences are made to reflect upon who demonstrates ‘real’ human qualities; the human creators or the scientific creations. Through a comparative study of ‘Frankenstein’ and ‘Bladerunner’, it is can become clear how Shelley and Scott were ultimately warning society of the dire consequences that can come of unrestrained scientific and technological knowledge and progress, and the ways those consequences can impact humanity. The context of when the texts were composed heavily influences the main themes and ideas of ‘Frankenstein’ and ‘Bladerunner’, as well as how Shelley and Scott portray the scientific and technological issues of the time. The 19th century was a period known as the Enlightenment Era, which encouraged rational thought and science was pursued in search for the unknown. In reaction to the clinical nature of enlightenment, the Romantic Movement was born encouraging society, particularly authors, to use their imaginations and exploring the endless possibilities of nature. Shelley composed ‘Frankenstein’ in response to both of these eras and is reflected by the way the.
HSC Viewing/Representing Assessment Task Comparative Study between Frankenstein and Blade Runner (Advanced English). This has been uploaded for the purpose.
This English Advanced Module A: Comparative Study of Texts and Contexts – Elective 2: Texts in Time – Frankenstein and Blade Runner is a bit to find questions to practice on, because pre-2009, the Elective was “Into the Wild” and the texts were Brave New World and Blade Runner. As such, I’ve still put the past HSC questions below, but I’ve modified them slightly to say “Frankenstein” and “Texts in Time” instead. Substantively, the HSC questions may be different now in that they won’t focus on humanity and nature so much (which was what “Into the Wild” was about). Instead they may focus more on texts and contexts. The practice questions used by high schools etc are all from 2009 though and have not been modified by me. So how should you use these questions? Write a essay according to one of these questions – if you have not already done an essay as part of a school assessment. If you have already written as essay – see if you can adapt it to all the questions below. To do this – write an introduction/thesis specific to the question and then outline how your body paragraphs would be structured (if any differently). At the end of this exercise, you should have come up with say 3 alternative thesis that you can have ready in your mind and ready to adapt to whatever question you spring on you in the HSC! I’ve also underlined the keywords in each question. As you’ll see, each question falls into a certain “type” of question: Question about the texts’ similar ideas – humanity, nature, control, creation Question about the texts’ different contexts and how it has influenced the construction of the texts and its ideas Question about how comparing the two texts influences your perspective of each text Can you figure out which category, each of the questions below fall into? Some may fall into more than 1 category. What must generally be covered (no matter what the question is).
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