Frankenstein and Blade Runner

FRANKENSTEIN AND wind vane RUNNER EXAM NOTES Module A Comparative study of texts and condition. Comparative equalise and contrast Context EVERYTHING, set and perspectives ANALYSING MOVIES Cinematographic modify Frame composition Colour/ sort/shade Sound/ music volume/dialogue Acting qualities. EXPLAIN How postmark represents the context of 1818 atomic number 18 both warnings to the atrocious of technology And blade runner context of 1982 BLADE RUNNER setting Ridley Scott is reflecting values by reacting against them.The biggest link that both are dealing with besides the excesses of sciences. -consumerism -industrialism topics being reflected in blade runner -greed -develop ment at any(prenominal) cost Post war era, forth of the Vietnam War . Computer industries booming and Ridley scott reflects this passim the movie. Los Angeles is filled chosen as an fashion model of industrialism. Economic rationalism- states that the economy dictates everything that happens in socie ty.The Reagan& the Thatcher institution created a free economy whereby the governance had less intervention with businesses this in piece created a great class short letter where the rich became richer and the poor became poorer. This idea is reflected in the movie by the idea of on being and offworld lands where nevertheless the rich can afford to have it off amodal value from the dead earth. Thatcherism- philosophy that anything that technologic in ally advances is good anything that prohibits otherwise is bad.Industrialism A dwarfing imprint is conveyed through the camera looking up towards the buildings and this further expresses the industrialism that has conquered this society. it is constantly repeated passim the movie. Chose Los Angeles as a symbol of American industrialisation and technology, as a vector sum of this you had the emerging environmental movement twain texts have a deep distrustfulness ab disclose the dangers of science and technology and what prov ide happen if sci and tech will stay without control Consumerism- coke, Atari and so onare all symbols of consumerismFRANKENSTEINS CONTEXT 1818 Frankenstein, amatory period 1780-1830 FOLLOWING advance of enlightenment (rationalism) beginning of the industrial get along with Head and heart knowledge objectiveness vs. subjectivity ENLIGHTENMENT- a period where argumentation and knowledge was central to authority (Rationalism) ROMANTICISM- a reaction to enlightenment, and the scientific rationalization of disposition. The influences in context within Frankenstein (1818) Learn from me, if non by my precepts, at least by my example who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow- showing the dangers of devotion which is common to enlightenment writers.In the 1831 edited version, quarrel which sounds obsessive and uncontrollable is added. Frankenstein expresses more emotion and it reveals a more romantic spirit. The sort in rhetoric was to show the dangers of romant ic egotism and not to show the dangers of science. even so this is irrelevant in the sense that the diverseness represents both sides to her context. The period of enlightenment and romanticism. INDUSTRIALSATION- all about urbanisations and the growth of big cities, in front this was a close link to nature. non so much about urbanisation but more about unbounded technology.Frankenstein has the rural theme with most characters out in the Alps chasing the fiend etc. * Romanticism is the birth of a unsanded sensibility, key elements is a growth in notions of individual(a) consciousness- meaning being cognizant of individual consciousness and hence individual imagination. Having a man create a replicant human being and the amazing way frank wanted to take up the hush-hush of life. Unaided with any assistance could learn language and everything else. Very superior parley skills * Dangers of experimental science in which human race is not its goal. The need for love and nurtu ring. * She all the way reflects aspects of her context, in that a small sort out of women such as her mother were the forerunners of the feminist movement. Starting to fight that group later on be known as the suffragettes. She represents salubrious feminist views its an analysis when men try to procreate without a woman. She is parodying denotative by the male romantics about the world of love and romance. Quite deliberate that the momentous emotional attachments are with men Frank- monster ClervalWalton WHAT CAN BE DISCUSSED A) CONCERN astir(predicate) SCEINCE AND DEVELOPMENT I) F + CONTEXT II) BR+ CONTEXT B) ONTOLOGICAL QUESTION WHAT IS A HUMAN BEING LIVING LONGER. observe OF LIFE AND FOR LIFE. C) MORAL CHOICES D) NEED FOR make out FAMILY AND EMPATHY E) JUDGING PEOPLE BY appearance I) made the monster as a playmate for himself and turns out to be a hideous deformed ugly monster. Rejects him on the basis of appearance II) Replicants purely by their eyes Frankenstein hated the monster because of its eyes. Exposes apprehension