A question I have about the novel is "Is Phil actually an android? Or just a human that likes to kill?"
Monday, September 27, 2010
Rick Deckard, Phil Resch, and Garland
The scene when Rick and Phil are held up in the fake police station with Garland is an interesting and important scene. Phil's entire "human hood" is questioned, Rick is very confused by all of it, and finally, Garland is killed. When his acting stops working, because Phil is going to test him, Garland admits his true identity to Rick, but also spills about the entire police station, saying that even Phil is an android. This is a major twist in the novel, it makes the reader wonder about Phil's personality, and question what an android is supposed to be like, a very nice plot twist in the novel.
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I could be completely wrong, but I'm just going to throw this out there.
ReplyDeleteI do not believe Phil is an android. The bounty hunters have tests that they can conduct to see if one if real or not. Clearly, if Phil was thought out to be an android a test would be conducted. I don't think that the police station would let an android be a bounty hunter.
I am going with a no, on Resch being an android. I believe that Dick put Resch into the story to help show Deckard's struggle to figure out the relationship between human and android. Phil completely flips Deckard's thoughts on human empathy, showing that androids have more empathy than humans.
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