Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep Summary

French politician Marion Marechal-Le Pen once said, “I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery.” Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? challenges the dichotomy between human and non-human species. Dick’s fundamental contention is that humans are dependent upon interactions with living creatures, and he further asserts that androids are, in fact, not human. Humans are inclined to bond to other living beings via social interaction. Such bonds transpire only through reciprocity of empathetic feelings; in their absence, disillusionment and resentment can flourish. Such was the case for Rick Deckard, who dreams of owning a real animal. He currently owns an ersatz sheep; he feels providing and supporting a fraud