Inside they find numerous stone cylinders, a large, monolithic statue of a humanoid head, and the decapitated corpse of a large alien, thought to be an Engineer; Shaw recovers its head. Other bodies are found, leading the crew to surmise that the species is extinct. Crew members Millburn and Fifield grow uncomfortable with the true nature of the mission and attempt to return to Prometheus, but are left stranded in the structure when they get lost. The expedition is cut short when a rapidly approaching storm forces the crew to return to the ship. David secretly takes a cylinder from the structure, while the remaining ones begin leaking a dark liquid.
he thought” (Kafka 118). When Gregor feels this out of body experience, he is left confused. District 9’s Wikus is a true descendent of Kafka’s Gregor Samsa. He is a simple, ultimately powerless man who works for the impersonal corporation, MNU. Wikus is exposed to a strange alien “fluid” that begins to transform him – just like his Kafkaesque predecessor—into a giant insect.
The Adromeda Strain The Andromeda Strain The basic situation of the novel is that bacteria is brought to the earth from space by a U.S. Military space probe looking for new weapons. After it comes to earth it kills all the people of the small town of Piedmont in Arizona except for a baby named Jamie Ritter and an old man named Peter Jackson and the bacterium threatens to wipe out all living creatures in its path unless a vaccine is invented to protect against it. Then the scientists can’t agree with the army and the President over the best way to fight the virus. There are lots of conflicts between the characters on the Wildfire team. Stone has a low opinion of Hall’s ability to help and thinks that Burton is a slob.
Humans are so firm in their belief that they themselves have the power to change their lives, but this power is imaginary and they are simply taking the only path they can because we are all “bugs trapped in amber”. Human beings are slaves to predestination. The Tralfamdorians again express their disbelief in free will at the end of Chapter Four, when Billy how he got on the Tralfamadorian saucer. The plunger shaped alien expresses, “It would take another Earthling to explain it to you. Earthlings are great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided.
Darkness Lurking: Fear of inner dark impulses –fear of social/mores Fear of darker impulses is supremely contrasted within these three of texts which are Alien 1974 the movie, The T.V Program Dexter and The picture of Dorian Gray. In Alien the protagonist Ripley ventures into a part of herself that is dark and gloomy discovering her darker impulses without realizing she has a gun and is on a hunt to kill, before this she was a quiet crew member that seemed humble yet with opinions that then seemed to be useful when all the crew members failed to defend themselves got them killed by the Alien, this is showing of the Darkness that didn’t get to surpass to them failing this led to their death. Ripley stepped out of “goodness” into the impulses leading her to hunt, kill and destroy this Alien all relating back to FEAR. Fear had driven her to accomplish the work which also in reality wouldn’t be done and that’s overcoming fear, it’s shown what fear makes us do and how it changes our actions and values. This interpretation also works in the way that the super ego wants to control the urges of the id much like how the company aimed to keep the alien and use it for its own devices and research.
There is also a loose inspection plate above the nuclear pile for the bots. Humans wouldn’t be able to survive with it. The big conflict is when the robots go berserk and get destroyed or destroy things. Also in Who Can Replace a Man Brian demonstrates how robots are the new humans by having them do human work.
I could feel the heat of his stare. It seemed as though a force field was drawing his dark brown eyes downward to my legs. I swallowed hard and tried desperately to pretend that I was really interested in what the teacher was saying. To be honest, the teacher could have been lecturing on aliens that are landing tomorrow and making all humans slaves. Oh Lord, please don’t let Damon be looking at my legs!
So, Victor Frankenstein was guilty as he created the creature, and left him alone. Victor caused Frankenstein’s monstrous appearance and his appearance resulted in misunderstandings about the creature. The main point is that the guilty one of these misunderstandings, the creature’s appearance and his exclusion from society was Victor Frankenstein, the creator. Particularly by focusing on the given passages 15, 16, and19, I will try to show how far away Victor is from humanity. Before Frankenstein creates the creature, Frankenstein goes graveyards to collect dead body parts with an aim to accomplish his ambition.
The Day the Earth Stood Still, directed by Robert Wise was released during a time where the United States was fearful of a communist invasion. Robert Wise used the film’s story line to criticize the fear of a nuclear war that was sure to be the end of the world. Wise used the film’s scenes to express the themes of a fear of communism and religion. The Day the Earth Stood Still opens with an alien named Klatu as he steps from his space ship which landed in the U.S capitol. He is met with U.S soldiers and as he pulls out a gift, and he is then shot.
*Movie script in progress now!! * .2. An alien that comes to earth to quest for human sperm and eggs because its own race cannot supply it anymore...when he arrives, his own kind gets angry and threatens to destroy the planet (Zack's idea for a film-not really a dream). .3. Movie about a post apocalyptic event where the sun, water, and animals are radiated and prey