... of fate facing social corruption, "If you're not cop, you're little people". Contrasting Deckard, corporate 'God' Tyrell symbolizes the futuristic world, questioning what it is to be human through his technological creations, "Replicants". Challenging God's authority by overstepping moral boundaries, this text in time cautions audiences of the consequences and omnipotence of unnatural science and ... alienate individuals, "I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit." Likened to Satan in John Milton's "Paradise Lost", Victor turns from God and the natural, ...

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... the Romantic ideal by humanity's ongoing pursuit of progress and knowledge, a consequence of the Enlightenment Era and the Industrial Revolution. Victor's overreaching ambition to overcome the natural boundaries by taking God's creator role is highlighted in the metaphor "Life and death appeared to me ideal boundsI should break through." Victor's hubris criticizes aspects of Enlightenment rationalism which attempted to control natural ... foundation of power in this new society valuing capitalism and consumerism, a shift from the Enlightenment's foundation in knowledge and scienc...

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