A study of desires and emotions in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The dream in the title of Philip K. Dick's masterpiece Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? refers to the ability to have "desires" and "emotions." The text focuses closely on "desires" and "emotions"—a theme that can be divided into the humans' lack of emotion, the evolution of the androids' desire...
| Publicado en: | Neohelicon Vol. 49; no. 2; pp. 477 - 494 |
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