Compare the ways in which texts offer insights into the human experience. Respond to this statement in relation to the pair of texts that you have studied.
Response.
Texts in time embody ideological concerns of their period, expressing the impact of influential values and human experience on texts. Human experience is knowledge or practical wisdom gained from observation or encounters, questioning what it is to be human. The 1818 multi framed novel "Frankenstein" and Ridley Scott's adaptation to Philip Dick's novel 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' in the 1991 director's cut film "Blade Runner", portray this through deeply sensitive yet violent creatures seeking their makers. Whilst disparities in the genre, both texts offer insights into human experience, questioning how science tampers with nature and the prejudice received in the 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. "Frankenstein" is allegorical for the technologically changed era, where the creation rebels against its creator; the application of science leading to unintended dire consequences. An influential zeitgeist text in time, the idea of Galvanism to create life is explored, "that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing" Shelley incorporates elements of Romanticism and Gothicism through Victor's characterisation and to describe the naturally sublime's power, "The sun is yet high in the heavens; before it descends to hide itself and illuminate another world." Shelley contrasts the scientific revolution to the aftermath of technology portrayed in "Blade Runner", as these mutual texts in time reflect differing contexts of similar human experiences and values.
