Context

Context

1. Frankenstein

   • Previously religion goverened
   • Moved to
     • Industrial revolution
       • empirical scientific research
         • galvinism
     • Romanticism helped retain
       • personal and emotional compassion
         • Values human spirituality
         • swinged towards
           • humanistic attitude
           • reverence of nature over artificial
   • Shelley
     • questions scientific rationalists
       • (still values science)
       • Going too far?
       • Disregarding nature?
   • Warning of the consequences when going too far

2. Bladerunner

   • strong environmental focus
     • Nature was fragile and vulnerable
       • Destruction from increasing mammoth technology
       • Exploitation
   • recognition of human potential
     • through technology
       • for greatness
       • or DESTRUCTION
   • End result when man has gone too far
   • Portrays a bleak vision
     • Illustrates
       • chaos
       • nuclear holocaust
       • ecological fragile
       • through soil depletion and rain
     • Man has eliminated nature
       • "When the last tree is cut and the last fish killed, the last river poisoned, then you will see that you can't eat money." - John May
   • 60s-70s, time of change and political upheavel
     • globalisation
       • Rise of Asian involvement
         • With Western nations