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Frankenstein/Blade Runner, Biblical Allusion, Post WW2 Gold War …
Frankenstein/Blade Runner
Themes
Nature vs nurture
People playing God
The replicants
Not created Evil
Created to be slaves
Seek freedom
The creator - Tyrell
Failed to nurture his creation, he was driven by money
Ziggurat - Type of pyramid
God like, lives above earth/streets or LA
Technology
Man's scientific pursuits
AI - Eyes
Motif
Symbolic - eyes are the windows of the soul
Roy forces his thumbs into hi s(dr Tyrell) eyes
Vought Kamp Test
- finds through the eyes of you're human or replicant
Dr Tyrell - black glasses - his vision is 'short' sighted
Ambition
Too much leads to unforseen consequences
All die in the end
Destroys humanity,, earth sense of hopelessness
LA is dark, raining, dirty, bleak
Themes
Technology
Galvanization
exploring electricity to give life
Ambition
In isolation Dr Frankenstein creates without any input or challenge to ethics
Character of Walton - the explorer
Unchecked ambition
Nature vs Nurture
The creator abandons his creation
The creature is left and murders vs he saves a girl
Rather than testifying to the creature's cruelty, Shelley highlights his humanity and contrasts it to mankind's cruelty
Biblical Allusion
Trying to be like God
Fallen Angels
Post WW2
Gold War
Consumerism
Capitalism
Globalisation
Romantic
Industrial Revolution