The book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was published in the year of 1968 by the author Phillip Dick. This novel was a depiction of a futuristic outcome of androids being created with similarities to humans. Within the book, readers are given a vivid understanding that the main character Rick Deckard is human. Shortly after, readers compare Dick’s book to an adapted version in 1982, of a futuristic film interpretation by Ridley Scott, who utilized the book to call into question the theme of what it means to be human through the usage of empathy. Within the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by the author Phillip Dick, we are given the setting of a 2021 version of San Francisco’s future. During this time, human life has become so
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In the film, we have Deckard falling in love with a replicant known as Rachael. Here is the major turning point within the movie because Deckard does not see her as a replicant, instead he has a harder time trying to label her as one since she is so closely replicated to human qualities. In addition, we are given a final scene between Roy and Deckard. Within this scene, Deckard almost loses the battle or his life so to speak but instead, Roy empathizes with Deckard and decides to spare his life so Deckard is able to run away with the replicant …show more content…
This connects to the films ending because Deckard does not see her as an android instead he sees someone who is good at singing opera; Which he loves. Like Rachael, Deckard begins to feel empathy for Luba before she is killed. We see this empathy emerge when he proclaims “I 've had enough. She was a wonderful singer. The planet could have used her. This is insane" and “You 're a good bounty hunter, Rick realized. Your attitude proves it. But am I? Suddenly, for the first time in his life, he had begun to wonder” (Chapter 12). We later see his actual epiphany when Deckard states “everything about me has become unnatural; I 've become an unnatural self (Chapter 21) and “electric things have their lives, too" (Chapter 22). At last, Deckard is finally realizing how he is considered to be unhuman because he does not empathize with the androids as
In the film, we have Deckard falling in love with a replicant known as Rachael. Here is the major turning point within the movie because Deckard does not see her as a replicant, instead he has a harder time trying to label her as one since she is so closely replicated to human qualities. In addition, we are given a final scene between Roy and Deckard. Within this scene, Deckard almost loses the battle or his life so to speak but instead, Roy empathizes with Deckard and decides to spare his life so Deckard is able to run away with the replicant …show more content…
This connects to the films ending because Deckard does not see her as an android instead he sees someone who is good at singing opera; Which he loves. Like Rachael, Deckard begins to feel empathy for Luba before she is killed. We see this empathy emerge when he proclaims “I 've had enough. She was a wonderful singer. The planet could have used her. This is insane" and “You 're a good bounty hunter, Rick realized. Your attitude proves it. But am I? Suddenly, for the first time in his life, he had begun to wonder” (Chapter 12). We later see his actual epiphany when Deckard states “everything about me has become unnatural; I 've become an unnatural self (Chapter 21) and “electric things have their lives, too" (Chapter 22). At last, Deckard is finally realizing how he is considered to be unhuman because he does not empathize with the androids as