Utopia and the Monster : Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant as an Adaptation of The Tempest

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The combined topoi of a monster and utopia effectively depict the human anxiety that persisted within the Renaissance. William Shakespeare's The Tempest suggests, rather intelligibly, that the utopia sometimes discloses the inhumanness of the Renaissance humanity. Four hundred years later, Shakespeare's latent skepticism about humanity is intensified in a modern film, Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant (2017), an obvious adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Alien: Covenant interprets and expands the problems of humanity and utopia/dystopia. The discovery of the New World allowed the Renaissance people to dream of realizing the world of the Testament or a politically ideal society. However, the no-man's-land depicted through the literature serves as a touchstone to bring out the most undesirable aspects of the human for illumination through the representation of monstorosity.

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  • 自然・人間・社会

    自然・人間・社会 68 1-13, 2020-01

    関東学院大学経済学部・経営学部教養学会

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