BNW/Blade Runner

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner both explore the way in which the essence of human relationships has turned from the natural to the unnatural. In BNW, Huxley contrasts the natural tribalistic world of the Malypai Reservation with the totalitarian and unnatural world of the World State. Similarly, Ridley Scott represents a world where humans have abandoned nature and in turn have become a ravaged world of artificiality. Both texts represent humans’ abandonment of nature through biological manipulation and the exploiting of technology.

In his novel BNW, Aldous Huxley has cleverly represented the changing nature of human relationships, where the essence has turned from the natural to the unnatural. He does this by contrasting the natural Malypai Reservation with the post modern World State. BNW depicts a world controlled and dominated by science and technology. It is a world whereby nature is a puppet of science, and all humans are products of a de...