Bean as Our Future: How Ender's Shadow Disputes the 1997 Backlash Against Human Cloning

dc.contributor.authorTemple, Seth
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-25T20:55:36Z
dc.date.available2018-07-25T20:55:36Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description13 pagesen_US
dc.description.abstractIn 1997, Dr. Ian Wilmut and colleagues at the Roslin Institute performed a successful somatic cell nuclear transfer on a female sheep named Dolly. Fear-mongering media coverage of Dolly immediately postulated concerns surrounding potential human cloning. In 1999, Orson Scott Card reimagined the Enderverse with the genetically enhanced clone Bean as the protagonist for Ender’s Shadow. Bean exists as Card’s counterexample to the aforementioned speculation. Card’s portrayal of Bean posits a world in which cloning technologies maintain human dignity, respect individuality, and benefit mankind’s pursuits. This paper demonstrates the historical concerns surrounding cloning as inadequately corroborated through analyses of Bean and Ender as literary foils, of Bean and Nikolai as unique personalities despite being genetic copies, and of Bean as a helpful wholesome clone due to the Christian education Sister Carlotta provides him. By presenting a contradiction to dispute the media’s fallacious and unfounded claims, Card requests more discourse over the cloning debate and pleads for an understanding of various perspectives.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.5399/uo/ourj.11.1.2en
dc.identifier.issn2160-617X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/23493
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USen_US
dc.subjectEnder's Shadowen_US
dc.subjectCloningen_US
dc.titleBean as Our Future: How Ender's Shadow Disputes the 1997 Backlash Against Human Cloningen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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