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Science Fictions (Posthumans (We Can Remember It For You Wholesale…

- - - - Does Ash have a soul? He is only a representation of the old Ash so does that mean is okay to mistreat him and lock him in the attic for all of his "life"?
      - Ash's memories are only what he posted on social media. We can see that he fails to act like Ash romantically showing the importance of memory.
      - The Ash clone is a technological advancement and would normally be considered progress, but after seeing him, one considers their definition of progress.
  - - - Deckard is okay being in a relationship with a female replicant but is still disgusted by the ones that escaped.
      - The replicants are designed to die after a short period of time. Since they are made artificially people don't think they have the ability to feel or remember.
      - Since the replicants' lives are so short they don't have the ability to make their own choices in life.
      - The female replicants were designed to be very attractive to seduce men.
  - - - The kids from Hailsham learn to dream. They Tommy thinks that Madame's gallery offered the kids a chance to get a deferral which would extend their lives by a few years so that they would have a chance to live. At the cottages the clones talk about possibles. Possibles are people that look similar enough to the clones to be the person the clone was cloned from. Possibles allow the students to dream about what their lives could be.
      - The concept of soul was the most important motivation behind Hailsham. Miss Lucy and Madame Marie-Claude are trying to prove to the population that even though the kids are just clones, they have feelings and soul. Madame creates a gallery of students artwork that she shows investors to prove that the clones have soul.
      - The conditions of the donation program are quite controversial. In the setting of the novel the program is accepted, but the program would not be accepted today. The morality of the donation program is explored throughout the novel. Miss Lucy advocates for the students lives while the rest of the population is satisfied letting clones be raised like cattle with their only purpose being organ donation.
      - It is very aggravating to read Never Let Me Go. In the entire novel we see the story of clones through Kathy's eyes. She knows that her only purpose is reproducing organs for donation and that she will die young without being given the chance to live and she is completely okay with that. There were many times when Kathy and Tommy could have left and lived out their lives together, but instead both stayed complacent and gave their lives to the donation program.
      - Kathy lives in a place where all of her friends end up dying. She turns to memories as a way to cope with their losses. Never Let Me Go shows the importance of memories.
      - The students at the college who were awaiting their donation didn't show much agency. They took the trip to see Ruth's possible, but most of the things that they did were but the book. Even though t the students were clones, they should have been given some agency.
  - - - Harold sold The Machine to the government for $0.01 in the hopes that it would bring peace to the world. Instead, the government abused it and tried to kill Harold and his development team.
      - One episode explores the memory of The Machine. Harold designed The Machine to delete its memory at 12:00 every night to prevent it from evolving. In this episode we see an office full of button pushers typing the memory of the machine every day so that it does not forget what it has done.
      - After one of the members of the team die, The Machine refuses to report any more numbers, showing that something does not need to be human to have feelings or a soul.
      - The Machine saves thousands of lives by preventing terrorist attacks, but also caused the death of innocent people, a moral issue Harold has difficulty coping with.
- - - - The Athsheans are terribly mistreated by the Terrans and are also considered the lesser species despite having a better government.
      - The Terran society is a male dominated society and turn out to be the inferior government forcing consideration of the role of gender in a government.
      - The Athsheans understand the importance of dreaming. Terrans only dream at night, but some Athsheans are dreaming most of the time in an effort to further connect themselves with the environment and nature.
      - In the Athshean population, translators are gods showing the importance of language in their society.
  - - - The Heptapod language is all about time and the order that time travels in. By learning the Heptapod language, Luise gains the ability to see time as a timeline instead of current and present.
      - The power of language is the central point of the story. By learning the language of Heptapod B, Luise is able to see the future.
      - Luise has the ability to see the future and knows that her child will die. Yet she allows that to happen. She has the ability to save her daughters life but chooses to let her die and preserve the future. Luise's complacency results in the death of her daughter.
      - Luise sees the future as if it were the past and were old memories. This makes her feel obligated to keep the future on course and not change it.
  - - - Luise is order to show as little of humans technology as possible because the government is afraid of the alien race and is unsure of their intentions.
      - The Heptapods promise that they are bringing humans a gift. In the end we realize their gift was language.
  - - - People are so reliant on technology that the second it fails, people start to turn on one another becoming more dangerous than any monster or alien.
- - - - The main character relies on her memories to stay sane in an apocalyptic setting.
      - The main character is a bisexual woman showing that gender doesn't matter.
      - Sex is a tool used to prove that the main character is still alive and has feelings.
      - The main character continues to have sex knowing that it could make her infected and help spread the disease.
  - - - Clark creates the museum so that people can remember the way things were before the Georgia Flu.
      - There is no technology left. All gas has run out so no more electricity. Station eleven shows that people can still have a life without technology.
      - Kirsten and the First Symphony have a very different definition of societal progress. Before the epidemic, progress was probably based on technology, but post apocalypse, a new, more thoughtful definition of progress was created.
      - The Prophet shows how dangerous religion can be.
  - - - Humans like to think of the Nuclear Age as progress, but after nuclear fallout, Earth is a dystopia forcing one to question what progress is.
      - The house is not living but attempts to keep itself preserved. The personification of the help makes the reader feel sorry for house and think of it as a live entity.
      - The apocalypse probably happened after a war, which is caused by governments disagreeing.
  - - - In the beginning Montag is satisfied being a fireman and doesn't care that they are burning book even though he doesn't see the point.
      - Eventually Montag realizes how terrible the destruction of books is and rebels against it, but his wife call the firemen on him and his house is burned down.
- - - - The Eloi are used to represent the degeneration theory. Technology has allowed special de-evolution which caused humans to become Eloi and Morlocks. In the novel, the Eloi represent the upper class and are small creatures that live a care free life. They are able to live a care free life because they show very little intelligence. The quick progression of technology created the lack of intelligence, arguing that we need to avoid becoming overly reliant on technology.
        
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      - Time is used to create a society that parallels the current society in the book. The futuristic society consists of the Eloi and Morlocks, used to represent the upper and lower class. By using time travel, the society becomes more likely than if the society was created in a fantasy setting, also making the argument more relevant to the reader because it takes place in the same universe.
      - Advancements are usually considered progress. This includes all technological advancements as well. In The Time Maching, technology has become so advanced that species go backwards in evolution. This contradicts the common idea of progress and forces a reconsideration of what progress truly means.
      - The futuristic creatures called Eloi and Morlock are designed to represent the upper and the lower class. The Eloi are carefree and stupid, while the Morlocks are workers and prey on the Eloi for food. The Eloi represent the upper class and the Morlocks represent the lower class. The difference between these two classes shows the importance of removing the divide between classes.
  - - - Time plays a crucial part in Kindred. At the time the book was written, slavery had been abolished in the United States, but oppression was still an incredible issue. Time travel allowed Butler to challenge the "free" life of an African American woman. When the story begins Kevin is a loving husband, but after Dana's first trip to the past, Kevin appears more and more oppressive. Later when Dana and Kevin are both stuck in the past Dana states that it was unsettling how easy the two of them fit into this time period, asserting that even though the oppression looks different now, it is still the same as it was 200 years ago.
      - Dana goes back in time to save a boy named Rufus. Rufus is the son of a plantation owner. When Dana travels back in time, she is forced to assimilate into slavery. Even after saving Rufus' life many times, he still shows aggression towards her and treats her as lesser. Rufus lives in a time when it was considered proper to oppress but Dana is not. The similarities between Dana and Rufus' time illustrate racial issues.
      - Gender is not as displayed as race in Kindred, but it is present. The power dynamic between Kevin and Dana is influenced by Rolle and gender. During one of Dana's first trips to the past, she is about to be raped by a few patrolmen. Right before being raped, she is sent back to her time period, but mistakes Kevin for one of the patrolmen. These acts towards women create an unsafe living environment for them. In Dana's confusion, we see that Kevin is not that different from the raping patrolmen.
      - Kindred explores agency in a common way. Slaves are known to have little to no agency at all. Kindred varies in the way it compares agency from the past to the present. In the past Dana is treated like a slave so we would expect her to have little to no agency, but when she is in the future she doesn't gain much agency helping to show how little oppression has changed over time.