Comparative study of texts and contexts - "Blade Runner" and "Brave New World"

'Although BNW and BR were composed fifty years apart they deal with the same issues but communicate different values.' Discuss this statement and how your understanding of humanity's relationship with nature was shaped. Human relationships, and humanity's understanding of the wild, are shaped and reflected in "Blade Runner", by Ridley Scott, and in "Brave New World" (Aldous Huxley) through their composers' use of the contrast between true nature and the wild. Both texts present …

…different issues arising from human interaction with the environment. Although both texts give frightening visions of the future, various different issues that were prevalent during their period have shaped them. However, there are underlying similarities between the two texts, in that both composers warn the contemporary responder against uncontrolled technological advancement by presenting dystopian visions of possible futures. Both texts are warning the audience about the consequences of continually trying to suppress or destroy nature