Blade Runner And Frankenstein Comparison

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A lot of things come into play when it comes to defining one as a human. A human being is especially a person as distinguished from an animal or an alien. The repeated theme in both Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein and Blade Runner, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? written by Philip K. Dick is humanity. By giving their characters distinctive and extremely unique identities with both authors have shown the real human like emotions like how to kill love lie and plenty of more emotions all related to recreate humanity.

In this novel Frankenstein, the author Mary shelly tells us a story based on a creation of a man.but soon enough you learn that the monster is actually good and the creator is the one who is less of a human .Victor Frankenstein
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Victor led to leaving the monster and ended up separating. Which led the monster to becoming lonely sad and just wanting to feel accepted. He was over not being wanted in society. Society didn’t not accept him because he was different, he was tall and did not look very human like, which led people to run or turn the other way when it came to the monster. After keeping in all that anger and reject the monster also murdered victors friends, William, Clerval and Elizabeth he wanted to seek revenge. Shelley having the monster prove humanity, he says, “The fallen angel becomes the malignant devil. Yet even the enemy of God and man had friends and associate in his desolation; I am alone” found in chapter 24. This monster proves humanity in many ways. He felt out of place n, not wanted by anyone. After that being said you can see that the monster shows his emotion and is basically a human although he is made from old dead dug up body parts he still reacts like any “normal” human would. Overall Victor Frankenstein is less of a human then the monster. The monster has responsibility actions he owns up for. Victor …show more content…
Dicks book Blade Runner(Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) also relates to exploring humans and if humanity . This I beeline is probably the best story one can relate to when it comes to humanity. Blade runner is taqken place in 2019 its about humans who are also genteinclly engineer replicats that are known to be more beautifual and perfect then the average human. Although they are not allowed on earth beasue if they do come to earth they are pretty much slaughtered.Rick the main character is a clade runner who is a hunter of the so called “replicants”the replicants just want to survive so they have to find a way for that to happen. They are also nnto humans which goes back to the topic of what makes one human and what doesn’t make one human at

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