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Essay / Research Paper Abstract
This 6
page report discusses the 1968 novel written by Dick that tells
the story of a human bounty hunter who seeks out androids to
destroy because such creatures so closely resemble human beings
that they have proven to be a threat. In the process, he has to
deal with his own understanding of what it means to be human and
what aspects of his world are as artificial as that of the
androids. This book was the inspiration for the Ridley Scott
movie “Blade Runner” but the report deals only with the novel.
Bibliography lists only the primary source.
Page Count:
6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_BWesheep.rtf
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his own understanding of what it means to be human and what aspects of his world are as artificial as that of the androids. This book was the inspiration for
the Ridley Scott movie "Blade Runner" but the report deals only with the novel. Bibliography lists only the primary source. BWesheep.rtf 207310 5
pages i source MLA "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" By: C.B. Rodgers - October 2001 -- for more information on using
this paper properly! Introduction The cover of Philip K. Dicks 1968 book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" claims that it was the inspiration for the Ridley Scotts 1982
movie "Blade Runner." It should be considered as something of a paradox that a popular movie is seen as the best enticement for a novel that had such a greater
degree of depth and grace than the movie was able to duplicate, regardless of how "inspired" it might have been. The bounty hunter, Rick Deckard, and the world in which
he lives is far more disturbing in print than Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard could ever be on the big screen. What the reader imagines and sees through the eyes
of the character is a world with shocking parallels to modern humanitys own questions regarding the nature of reality and the authentic self. A Very Different World From
the moment the reader first meets Deckard and learns that his alarm clock is a "merry little surge of electricity piped by automatic alarm from the mood organ beside his
bed" (3) it is clear that reader is entering a very different world. One cannot help but be drawn in as he and his wife, Iran, begin to argue. She
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