2. INDEX
• Biography
• Life
• Work
• Style
• Features
• Critisism and fame
• Themes
• Do the androids dream of electric sheep?
• Plot
• Themes
• Differences between novel and film Blade Runnner
3. LIFE
• 16° December 1928 in Chicago
• Jane death
• Parents’ devorce
• John Eaton Elementary school
• 1938 California
• 1940 reading «Stirring Science Stories»
• 1950 University of California
• ROTC ( Refers Officers’ Training Corps)
• 1951 sold his first story
• 1952 = death
Washington, D.C.
From 1952 to 1982 = 36 novels,
5 short story collections
4. WORK
• Change of emotional state
• Death of his twin sister
• Bad marriages
• Addiction to drugs
• 1950 bacame known in sci-fi
• Fist published novel = Solar Lottery (1954)
• 1950 – 1960 creative periods
• The Man In The High Castle (1962)
• 1970 create his best work
• Do The Adroids Dream of Electric Sheep
• Flow My Tears The Policeman Said
• 2-3-74 --> contacts with a forse beyond Earth
Create his own unique style
2-3-74
5. STYLE – FEATURES
• EMOTION
• Story ‘s elements:
• Paranoia
• Psychosis
• Schizophrenia
• hallucination
• His works = journey through many human emotions
• CULTURAL INFLUENCES
• Genre of science fiction
• PROPHETIC VIEWS
• an air of reliability and danger
6. STYLE – CRITICISM AND FAME
• Numerous annual literary
awards
• 1983 = Philip K. Dick award
• Twentyfirts century interest
• His views of future --> real
7. THEMES
• Reality – illusion
• What is real; construction of personal identity
• Disorientation characters --> confused = addicted to drugs
• Themes of drugs and mental illness --> Dick = drug user
• God and religion irruption of the divine; God use characters to
save humanity
• Androids and aliens androids = similar to human;
aliens = supernatural powers; enemies
Create illusory words
8. DO THE ANDROIDS DREAMS OF ELECTRIC
SHEEP?
• Sci-fi novel
• Published in 1968 Blade Runner (1982)
9. PLOT
• Set in the 1992 after WWTerminus
• Many people Mars = easy life with android servant
• Poor people and people genetically demaged Earth
• Cities unpopulated
• Relation with animals definition human’s features
Extinction plant and animal species
Regular and «special»
10. • Protagonist = Rick Deckard bounty hunter
• Conversation with Bill Barbour pregnant mare
• Deckard coming colt
• Dave Holden Hospital after android attack
• Deckard real animal
• Deckard’s task = empathy test defining qualities humans/androids
Meaning to his life
Research of 8 Nexus-6 androids
11. • Rosen Industries in Seattle test a Nexus-6 android
• Test Rechael = niece of Eldon Rosen
• Rechael bribe Rick with real owl conversation
• Rosen industries discredit the emphaty test
• Rechael = use to protect other androids
Failure of the test Explanation = life on spaceship
Confirm the result of test
12. • J.R. Isidore
• driver for an animal repair shop
• “special” status
• empty apartament building
• Pris Stratton = Nexus-6
• Isidore befriend her
• The androids enlist Isidore
• Deckard loves Rechael Rosen Industries
Deckard recruits Rechael
Distract him with her sexuality
13. • Dackard vs. Androids
• Home his wife Rechael kill his goat
• Trip in Oregon toad
New record
Bought with his bounty money
14. THEMES:
• Hierarchies and division of life
• Animals = precious
• Every type
• Humans
• Who can immigrate off-world
• Who can’t immigrate off-world
• Androids = meaningless
• Old generation
• New generation
• Mercerism = religion --> relationship with and empathy towards animals = definition of
humanity
15. • The Voigt-Kampff Test --> monitors reaction for a series of questions of situation for an emotional
response --> androids --> cold unsympathetic view
• Androids
• Key difference = Lack of empathy
• Incredibly intelligent
• Care about themselves
• Humanity versus non-humanity --> presence of not-human beings => organic vs mecchanical
• Reason for this choise
• Holocaust
• Methanphetamine
16. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE NOVEL AND
THE FILM
(BLADE RUNNER 1982)
Film Novel
Setting place 2019, Los Angeles 1992, San Francisco
Deckard Devorced Married
Atmosphere No dust Radioactive dust
Dekard’s job Retired from bounty hunter Active bounty hunter
Bounty hunter Blade Runner
Android Replicant Andy
Andorids’ ability More skilled Less skilled
Racheal and Pris 2 different girls Identical
J.R Isidor Brilliant android designer Chickenhead
Android? Open question Deckard passes the test
Android’s life Four years lifespan Roughly four years
