In Philip K. Dick’s novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, the world has become a degraded radioactive wasteland after a nuclear global war has rendered many species to be extinct and has forced people to seek more habitable land on Mars. Those deemed “worthy” of living on Mars are given an Android as a servant. Overtime, Androids acquired human-like characteristics leading to their desire to break free from captivity. The Android’s quest for freedom created a demand for bounty hunters to kill or retire runaway Androids. Alongside with the abundance of androids, animal ownership holds thematic emphasis. On planet Earth, animal ownership was seen as a status symbol. Rick Deckard, the main character of the novel, struggles with the fact that he has neither a real animal nor a real connection with his wife as a result of being an android retirer which goes against his wife’s, Iran, wishes (how so, explain). After his real sheep’s death, he is forced to settle with an electric …show more content…
Due to this, she is the reason he begins to have an empathetic response towards female androids. He is warned that this empathy is only a desire for sex and is not really an empathetic response. Rick is drawn to Luft Luba because of her talent beauty, and natural worth. She is far livelier than Iran and demonstrates passion. He is intrigued by her beauty and does not believe that something so beautiful could be fake. His blindness to reality rears at the end of the novel when he finds an electric toad and believes it to be real. As a result of his relationship with Rachel, Rick finds himself to be more empathetic and conscious of what is real or fake. This is displayed when when he decides to love and cherish the toad as if it were real. Ultimately, these small changes in Rick's actions and attitude show the development of his character and his relationship with