Essay on Mary Shelleys Frankenstein and Bladerunner

Similarities between Frankenstein and Bladerunner Many similarities can be found between Mary Shelleys 1816 novel, Frankenstein and the 1982 movie Bladerunner . The number of similarities between these two works, created more than two hundred years apart, is staggering. A cursory look at both works reveals these similarities: Both stories feature a very intelligent 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 unaware of the forces that they are dealing with. They†¦show more content†¦Are the Replicants revered or given special treatment because of this? No, in fact, they are treated as slaves and hunted down when they return to the birthplace of the human race. Both creators are faced with limited tools in which to create their new lifeforms, ...but my imagination was too much exalted by my first success to permit me to doubt of my ability to give life to an animal as complex and wonderful as man. The materials at present within my command hardly appeared adequate to so arduous an undertaking... (pg 53). This lack of materials causes both creations to suffer with characteristics that make them very different from the rest of humanity. Frankensteins monsters image was very disgusting, ...and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! -Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; ...only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion and black lips (pg 57), while Tyrells replicants are without the ability to feel empathy, and have a four year life span. These differences force the creatures to confront those that created them. Frankensteins