Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Context
- Frankenstein
- Previously religion goverened
- Moved to
- Industrial revolution
- empirical scientific research
- galvinism
- Romanticism helped retain
- personal and emotional compassion
- Values human spirituality
- swinged towards
- humanistic attitude
- reverence of nature over
artificial
- Shelley
- questions scientific rationalists
- (still values science)
- Going too far?
- Disregarding nature?
- Warning of the
consequences when
going too far
- Bladerunner
- strong environmental focus
- Nature was fragile and vulnerable
- Destruction from increasing
mammoth technology
- Exploitation
- recognition of human potential
- through technology
- for greatness
- or DESTRUCTION
- End result when man has gone too far
- Portrays a bleak vision
- Illustrates
- chaos
- nuclear holocaust
- ecological fragile
- through soil depletion and rain
- Man has eliminated nature
- "When the last tree is cut and the last fish killed,
the last river poisoned, then you will see that you
can't eat money." - John May
- 60s-70s, time of change and political
upheavel
- globalisation
- Rise of Asian involvement
- With Western nations