Analysis: Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep

Honey Abdul
Eng. 105
Mr. South
April 18, 2018

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The theme explored in Philp K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” is on a central axis of conflicts between human and androids. Android is a literary analysis, which focuses on them emigrating from Mars to the earth. People on Earth are balanced but Androids are far on ahead and banned on Earth. What to be alive is illustrated as a theme in the book, which brings us back to the government asking the bounty hunters to kill the androids. Life, empathy, humanity, conflicts, what is real and what is not real played a role in analysis. Conflicts involved around this book is to impact the showcase of the duty of the bounty hunters and androids. Iconic elements

play where Dick used the object, the Voigt-Kampff testing to ask self-denotative questions. Many of those questions can bring out the misanthropic and dissatisfaction in androids. The world war Terminus penetrates technology towards androids.
Rick Deckard is potraited as a person who seems to balance is official duties as a bounty hunter, who is also real. Dick uses the motif of eugenics towards Rick in this book, despite killing the android. Rick blurred the lines of being special about being on earth is otherwise. Dick irony towards Rick represents him as hypocritical, despite selfish. Characters represent different version of humanity and the line between the real and not real is blurred. Rick Deckard lacking a balance of his job, the humanity in him that prominent humans from android. When trying to be obligated. Mercer’s quote: "You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity" (Dick 179) he started to have empathy towards the android betraying his sense of humor and humanity.
Ironies of the novel help reinforce the crux of the motif in the novel. The complex of the android lead us to Rachel Rosens character. Dicks demonstrates irony as Rachel for having feelings towards Rick, also flips around. Rick having to fall towards the female android is ironic, neglects his conscience of becoming a bounty hunter. in this vein, Dick dramatizes, not so much the language he uses, but it’s very iconicity to not only concretize what has become conventional. The differences between androids and human is the empathy that human have but android don’t. When having to question about Rick, he lacks empathy towards the android. The failures of the androids in terms of social affect and the establishing of "authentic" relationships are due to their lack of empathy, no loyalty to one another.
Rick need to retire them to get the money. Despite the fact he liked the money, Rick later on had empathy on the androids. Rick’s wife, Iran who is emotionally sad has humanity “I realized how unhealthy it was, sensing the absence of life.” (Dick 5). Mood organs provide individuals with any kind of emotion they have desire, which leads to social existence of congenial exchange. The meaning of this have to be real affect. Some may say Iran have a mental illness, the answer is no. Iran is cognitive devoted of who she is. Throughout the novel she had a sense of humor and empathy. Linking to end of the book, Iran showed the electric toad some empathy.
Humanity is a symbol of human serving the purpose of the divine and God created man in his image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them and God said to them, 'Be fertile and increase, fill the earth and master it; and rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and all the living things that creep on the earth.” (Genesis 1:27-28) That brings us back to the androids. Androids are not real, not human. The Scientist fixed them into android. So what happens when they die? Just as they search to create meaningful lives, this escapes them, because they can never even feel for themselves. Rick is a symbolic function of a human and supports the serendipity of human being. Dick. Thus the experience of the android is ultimately meaningless, which is exactly how Deckard describes them; the android can only understand at an intellectual level and when thinking about the inverse for this is than human can have empathic bonds.
When describing the first conversation between Pris Stratton and Joh Isidore, Dick described them as a chicken head human being and an android which leads to irony.

The way Pris used irony was by greeting John symbolizing to open up, living freely and still hiding from the bounty hunters. Dick continuation of using irony is highlighting the struggles for a constant. John, an advocate who finds it to believe in Mercers but intend to connect with the community and society despite his emotions and mental processes. John later believe in Mercerism, after is encounter of his spider brought back to life. Internal conflicts lead to the struggle of identity search. Dick showed that John mental make-up did not judge Pris despite the fact is an android. Not everyone in this book like android, which draw us back to beliefs in actions and represents identity and priorities. The establishment to emphasize identity. Pris the android symbolizes the behavior of the empty deprived action of

absence.
Rick social standard in the book is used by human traits. When meeting with Rachel, Rick states, “Legally you're not alive. But really you are. Biologically. You're not made out of transistorized circuits like a false [robot] animal; you're an organic entity.” (Dick 181). These two people indicates what is authentic and natural, what is real and what is not. The anatomical structure themes of sociality and human being are marked by images of absence. Distinguish between androids and human. They always stay alone. Android kept to stay alone even around other android.
Society in this book is possession of having an animal.

Real animal vs electric animal. These are considered to symbolizes a lower status of owner. Real animal is considered superior to electric animals. Rick is influenced of his job as a bounty hunter, in other to own a real animal. Desire to fit into expectation of moral senses and not just owning a fake animal. Few certain animals only exist and are only taken care of by certain animal. People didn’t buy animal to care for them but to show the status based on value of their animal, that is why electric animals are created. Animas are expensive and to buy them to be socially

acceptable.
Androids and human being exist as characteristics individuals. Humans live for a long time, whereas androids live for some years because they are going to be killed in any minute by the bounty hunters. Dick invented androids as isolated states of psychology idea that owns mind. Connecting to the world can only mean one thing which is cognitive. Androids are always absent due to them hiding which stand to the conjunction of human character, who lives freely around the world. Mercer’s quote: “You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.” (Dick 179). Having real euthenics to find empathy in humanity.

Works Cited
• Dick, Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep? New York, NY: Random House Group, 1968. Print.