Comparing Brave New World And Blade Runner Analysis

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The context of a text weighs heavily on its creation and the issues it conveys. Also, its composer at its time of creation often significantly influences the ideas, theme and attributes presented in the text itself. ‘Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley and ‘Blade Runner’ by Ridley Scott are both future projections from the worlds in which they were created. They depicts that the search for progress of both science and technology leads to the control and abolition of nature. Showing, that the consequence of the strain between humanity and the natural is a world without a relationship with the rhythms of nature and void of the defining features that makes us human such as individual freedom, identity, morals and compassion. This leads to a world…show more content…
However, ‘Brave New World’ differs to ‘Blade Runner’ as Huxley’s world is not as concerned with the destruction, but rather humanity becoming vastly separated form nature due to everything being controlled. Huxley’s context also played a significant role in the definition of the future. During the early decades of the 20th Century, the desire for stability saw the development of a number of fascist and totalitarian states throughout Europe. These states sought to obtain the people and their minds. In Huxley’s world of the World State, humanity is conditioned to reject the nature as the natural rhythms of birth and ageing as well as emotions that are evolved when in contact with nature are considered to threaten the stability of civilization. Huxley predicts that if conditioning humanity is continued, the very featured that define what it means to be human will be abolished, such as in this case compassion and individual freedom. The contrast in the characterisation between Lenina and John the Savage demonstrates this. When is contact with such elements of the natural world such as breast-feeding, Lenina quotes hypnopaedia taught slogans such as “cleanliness in next to Fordliness”, demonstrating her conditioning to reject the natural. John the savage on the other hand who has not been conditioned is disgusted by the control…show more content…
While the replicants are man made technology, the State of humanity is so decayed that, ironically, the replicants themselves present a wider range of emotions and empathy than do the human character in the film. Characterisation is used to shoe the direction that mankind has leaded, with citizens on the street depicted in heavy dark cloaks and clothes, shuffling as the walk by and ignoring other people’s problems. In the scene where Deckard kills Zhora , non-digenetic sound of Zhora’s heartbeat is emphasised to show the fear that she experiences, with slow motion shot capturing her dramatic death, drawn out to highlight the intense emotion that she feels while Deckard remains completely un-emotional. In this case, the replicant really is “more human than human”, and the audience feels empathetic for her plight as she tries to save her own life, while feeling cold towards the human character Deckard for murdering her in cold blood. With the reliance upon technology and destruction of the natural environment, humanity has lost sight of what it is to be human; humanity’s lack of relationship with the natural world results in a loss of morals and ethical standards that can be seen as representing the core of what it is to be
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