“Replicant” Heroes and Human Anti‐Heroes in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner
“Replicant” Heroes and Human Anti‐Heroes in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to examine Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Ridley Scott’s film adaptation Blade Runner, with a view to highlighting the way that their leading characters are portrayed. Although neither the novel nor the film is lacking heroic figures, this role is not given to the protagonists but to secondary characters who, due to their empathic traits, are better fit to play this part. As opposed to them, both Dick and Scott’s protagonists are flat characters who do not undergo a noteworthy development in the course of the story.

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