Compare how "Brave New World" and "Blade Runner" explore the tension between humanity and the natural world.

The notion of a 'natural world' is one that suggests an environment that has been formed by nature; growing spontaneously, uncultivated and undergoing natural rhythms that emerge periodically. It is this natural world that incorporates flora and fauna. However, the dominant species in this setting is not the human race; rather, it is the natural environment that embraces humans as a part of its habitat. This theme is unequivocal in Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" (…

…living in appalling conditions that have either lost identity or live in an environment that has been totally dominated by science. Equally, Huxley and Scott present dystopian societies through the notion that the individual has lost identity as a result of the conflict between the progress of man and the natural environment. In both circumstances, through the laboratories that produce people, drugs that evoke pleasure and conditioning that replaces families, technology becomes a dehumanising force.