What Are The Similarities Between Blade Runner And Brave New World

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Blade Runner and New Brave World's Perspective's on Humanity Ridley Scott’s film “Blade Runner: Director’s Cut” and Aldous Huxley’s novel “Brave New World” explore the concept of ‘In The Wild’ by focusing on the natural world and its rhythms falling victim to unbridled scientific development. They present a wedge that is divorcing man from his relationship with nature, in an attempt to define what it means to be ‘human’. Both texts depict chilling dystopic futures where the materialistic scientific and economic ways of thinking have been allowed to quash the humanistic …show more content…

The World State clearly symbolizing the Totalitarianism in Huxley’s context. Though Huxley and Scott’s settings are diametrically opposed, they both overtly depict humanity straying from its natural origins and becoming metaphorically lost in the wilderness of science and materialism.

Both texts explore ‘In The Wild’ by demonstrating the ways in which scientific progress is divorcing humanity from its natural origins. The technocratic World State of “Brave New World” is populated by scientifically engineered beings – a complete subversion of the natural rhythms of the human life cycle. A love of nature has been satirically replaced with a love of “Our Ford” and it’s hedonistic “orgy porgies”. This parody of religion is a reflection of the spiritual depletion of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ and gives a god-like image to Henry Ford. Now, The World State has “applied mass-production to biology” – people are engineered by the 1000s and The World State even denies nature unless technology is integrally involved. However, the very existence of the necessary surrogates symbolizes the uncultivated nature of the natural order. In diametric opposition, …show more content…

John the Savage, from the Savage Reservation, rejects the “Brave New World”: his characterization as someone who does not want fake “comfort” but rather the naturalness of “god, poetry, freedom and sin…I claim them all”, is reinforced by the accumulation and personal pronoun. By contrast, inhabitants of the World State have been manipulated since their foetal state to fit the requirements of society and to “like their inescapable social destiny”. “Brave New World” portrays a world in which technology is fast growing as the new God and its ironic that it’s the ‘outsiders’ that are each composers’ mouthpieces, used to articulate the human qualities so lacking in the ‘insiders’.

In “Blade Runner”, the responders are forced to question what constitutes a human consider the state of nature: a key difference between texts. In “Brave New World”, nature exists but is denied because, according to their consumerist values, ‘a love of nature keeps no factories busy’; however in “Blade Runner”, they lament its loss. Paradoxically, Tyrell capitalizes/corporatizes the role of God by technologically manufacturing life - Replicants – ironically

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