Exercise: „Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?“ - Philip K. Dicks (1968)

Exercise: „Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?“ - Philip K. Dicks (1968)

Main Course Content

Main Content

Introduction

In the following, you will analyze an excerpt from Philip K. Dick's dystopian novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" as an example. (1968), which is the literary model for the movie "Blade Runner" (1982). In it, the protagonist and policeman Rick Deckard subject the (supposed) android Luba Luft, who works as an opera singer, to a test that is supposed to distinguish between humans and androids.