Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Phil K. Dick The distinctions between animal, human and android (cyborg) are important in the world of...

What is so fascinating
about the
world that Dick creates in this novel is that initially binary opposites between
human
and android are created and set up, but these are only torn down later
on in the novel as
Deckard finds it more and more difficult to establish the
difference between humans and
androids. The question of identity in this
dystopian world seems to be so important, with
androids being treated at best
as second class citizens, and humans enjoying mastery over them.
However,
what challenges this binary opposition is...

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