blog #7

Blog #7

I choose Caryl Churchill’s play called A Number. The imaginative text “dramatizes’ or embodies the conflicts or complexities because the play shows us what a man is willing to do to make up for his mistakes in the past and in the ends tragically. One of the questions that the imaginative text asks is when Bernard 2 asks his father “So if I was your son the original would be your son too which is nonsense so”.  Bernard 2 is saying that the father told him he was his son but since he is the clone that must mean the original one is his son. Since they are the same person but one is a clone does that mean there both his son.

  Is it ok to clone your son? After reading this play, the original did not like that idea and killed the clone.  Bernard one says “I didn’t need to tell you how it happened. And Im wishing I didn’t. “ He didn’t like that there was another person just like him walking around and being just like him. The clone didn’t mind at all, he thought it was interesting. “ It’s like having a twin that’s all it’s just. I think I’d like to meet one.” The author leaves it up to the reader to decide how they feel about cloning. Stories from humanities give us questions for scientist such as is cloning a good thing to do?