The "Monster" Reconsidered: BLADE RUNNER'S Replicant as Romantic Hero
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Jump to navigationJump to search'Abbott, Joe. "The 'Monster' Reconsidered: Blade Runners Replicant as Romantic Hero." Extrapolation 34.4 (1993): 340-50.
Compares BLADE RUNNER and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as texts that address "the issue of artificially created life" (340). Argues that Shelley's novel presents a moral about the dangers of human inquiry and knowledge that Ridley Scott's film questions. Scott suggest through the film's conclusion that "human" and "android" are not mutually exclusive terms, for they have more to do with spirits than mechanics.
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