A comparitive study of the text 'Brave New World' composed by Aldous Huxley and the film 'Blade Runner' (1982) directed by Ridley Scott.
Both Scott and Huxley depict future dystopias in their texts Blade Runner and Brave New World. Despite contrasting mediums of production and half a century separating their composition, both evolved in contexts of rapid technological change and changing social mores. Both texts reveal the interrelationship between humans and nature, and the effect of human interference with natural processes. The most significant parallel is in their views; what it is to be human.
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…an overpopulated, overdeveloped and polluted world.
These two texts convey the danger of interfering in natural processes. In Blade Runner humans have thoughtlessly destroyed the natural world, and are redefining what it means to be human now that they are unable to control replicant technology. In Brave New World a few humans have complete control of technology, but in attempting to achieve stability with it, they have devalued humans by removing their rights and freedoms.
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