The novel explores the differences and similarities that humans share with androids. The novel puts an emphasis on the importance of empathy in a dying world consumed by technology, where humans struggle with their obsession of the materialistic possessions in life. The protagonist of the novel, Rick Deckard, realizes that he is engaged in an internal battle once he begins to question his work and ultimately his whole way of life. Dick explores the evolution of the protagonist from cold and calculating, to empathetic, and critiques human arrogance to reveal similar traits between humans and androids.
Dic explores the similarities shared between humans and androids by unmasking human hypocrisy through the selective religion of Mercerism. The primary goal of Mercerism is to bring humans…show more content… Deckard encounters a toad that he believes he has seen “through Mercer’s eyes” (pg 120). Although at first sight Iran recognizes the artificial toad. As Deckards instincts, gained through a career of retiring artificial life, should have immediatley warned him of the electric animal, he allows himself to be fooled, leading himself to abandon his attempt at suicide. Dick highlights this disgrepancy between humans and androids, as the nexus-6 models would hypothetically “give up” (pg 121) when confronted with a bounty hunter. Deckard describes humans as “a genuine organism--with two billion yeard of pressure to live and evolve hagriding it--could never have reconciled itself” (pg 176) when faced with the threat of dying. Dick then introduces the idea of a so called bad faith. Bad faith essentially means intentional dishonesty with the intent to deceive coupled with the subjects refusal to confront obvious questions derived from common sense or simply ones own
