Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep Analysis

387 Words2 Pages
In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? androids and humans have similar physical appearances; however, people are complicated and complex and have the capacity for empathy, compassion, and kindness; whereas androids do not innately possess these characteristics. Humans are able to react to emotions expressed by others and then reproduce them; an android, however, is programmed with an “empathy box” (Dick 21). Humanity is expressed in this novel through the innate human ability to feel the way another person does.
Humans feel empathy and these feelings develop over time and with experiences; androids, however, are “not born” and “don’t grow up” (193) developing these emotions. These emotions are programmed in the androids and are not