BLOG ASSIGNMENT # 7

The imaginative text I’ve chosen for this blog post is the play A Number by Caryl Churhill. This play to me doesn’t necessarily give you facts or legit information on how cloning could affect humans and how cloning could really be like if it were to happen. However it does portray a different scenario that could be shocking and scary if you come to think of it. In the play a there is three characters Salter, Bernard 1, and Bernard 2. This play tells a story of a man that wanted to fix the past that he himself created. Bernard had many regrets because of the life style he put his son Bernard 1 through. He was raised in a bad environment due to abuse by his father and at a young age he became corrupted. As for Bernard2 he was the opposite of everything B1 was because Salter realized what he did to his first son and refused to let it happen again and created a second chance by creating clones. Nevertheless the plan Salter planned ended with a terrible tragedy that took the life of his first son as well as the clone that he learned to love. In the end Churchill’s play does leave the reader asking questions like could it really be like this if cloning were to happen?, could people become this immoral and insensitive towards other human beings, but it also tells you how cloning couldn’t be a problem by showing you how one of the clones Michael has such a successful life. Furthermore Churchill doesn’t really take a side on cloning she argues that nurture is more important than nature. Perspectives from movie I believe are very interesting to watch because it shows you certain possibilities that things can lead to and that could help us progress in the future.