Essay, Research Paper In the short narrative The Electric Ant, Philip. K. Dick is showing his sarcastical sentiment of adult male in society and adult male # 8217 ; s inability to separate between the truth and phantasy. Using his chief character # 8217 ; s life, Garson Poole, the writer illustrates teh psychotic belief of world # 8217 ; s freedom. This psychotic belief is demonstrated by three constituents of Garson # 8217 ; s life: his machine-controlled world bit, and his emotional and physical make-up as an oranic automaton. Garson Poole who, prior to his sensing of the world bit was under the feeling that he was exempted from all the universe # 8217 ; s restraints, finds himself in a cloud nine of confusion when he realizes that his life is being dictated by an machine-controlled world tape. The nowadayss of this mechanical setup symbolizes the conditioning adult male inherits from parents and others to conform and be accepted by society. This world appliance restricts Garson from certain ideas and certain actions and forces him into others.
