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. ... " Like Victor in "Frankenstein", oppression clouds realism in the corporate powered society by questioning what it is to be human and the effect of human experience. ... In "Frankenstein," Victor's morally ambiguous "Monster" seeks justice and understanding to his senseless existence, where repeti...

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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 human condition. ... 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 and the Industrial Revolution. ... Thus, Shelley criticizes the human tendency to disregard nature in favor of the pursuit of scientific discovery. ... Frankenstein also discusses how humanity'...

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