Exploring the depiction of humanity and nature's relationship in Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" and Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner". Australia HSC essay.

Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" and Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner": The Director's Cut, despite their very different cultural contexts, depict futuristic societies where the relationship between humanity and nature is divorced, and the technological and artificial have supplanted the natural. The composers of the texts explore the effects of human development on the natural world by utilizing the science fiction genre as a means of social criticism, guided by their respective cultural contexts. Where Scott …showed first 75 words of 1289 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1289 total…hence, incurs the price tag of free will, the volatility of human emotion and the unpredictability of human connections. In conclusion, human relationships with nature in BNW and BR are examined through use of symbolism (especially of light and dark), characterization, intertextuality (Film Noir in BR), irony and the science fiction genre to depict a bleak future where the natural is overtaken and overcome by human development, and to pose the question, at what price?