Do Andriods Dream Of Electric Sheep by Phillip P. Dick (1968)

37123The following quote needs to be explored through the motive of the character Rick Deckerd from the 1968 novel “Do Andriods Dream Of Electric Sheep” by Phillip P. Dick

“you will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. it is the basic condition of life to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. it is the ultimate shadow; the defeat creation. this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life everywhere in the universe”

Then concluded with the following quote from the same article-

“And there, in the forties, was born my idea that within our species is a bifurcation, a dichotomy between the truly human and that which mimics the truly human”

these quotes need to be expanded upon through the character of Rick Deckerd or his motive in the book.

a question to consider answering (but not mandatory) in correlation to this would be, what constitutes an essential human being? how do we know?

both of these quotes come from the following artice-

http://scrapsfromtheloft.com/2016/11/09/philip-k-dick-on-blade-runner/