... aftermath. These texts in time not only warn previous societies, but through insights into human experience, offer caution to modern day audiences. Mary Shelley's gothic, seminal science fiction text "Frankenstein" depicts the enlightening scientific world during the Industrial Revolution, where its frame narrative cautions about the negative connotations involved with unnatural science. & ... gain insight into the human experience exposed through Scott's cautionary social commentary of technology overtaking society, "he design your mind, your brain". Both Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" ...

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The comparison of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein, and Ridley Scott's 1992 film, Blade Runner, facilitates the examination of transforming societal values and the ... as texts are a reflection of their context and its values, it is evident that aspects of human nature remain constant irrespective of context. In Frankenstein, Shelley explores the transgression of the natural order in the Romantic ideal by humanity's ongoing pursuit of progress and knowledge, a consequence of the Enlightenment Era ... progress over the natural world has created a dystopic future reinforced through hel...

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