The show Parasyte delves into what defines being human and whether or not intelligent species can coexist with each other. The goal is to connect the snippets of Tamiya Ryouko in the show via a short story adaptation. Taking into account the various changes towards becoming human she has over her journey, research as to whether or not this is realistic, as well as how it could be conveyed is vital. In the show, she attends college lectures on topics covering how humans and animals are very similar in behavior so these settings can be used as a medium to introduce the idea that animals can become very human-like in their behaviors. One of the most transformative forces is probably her child, and exploring her relationship with her child is an integral part of her own transformation. The last idea that the show sort of explores is how humans lose their own humanity, which can be introduced in the adaptation as well, helping her own transformation, for example, she could start to choose what humans she feeds on, picking more oppressive ones than “innocent” people.
Annotated Bibliography “Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animal Nature.” Mark Bekoff interviews the author of the soon to be released book about its implications surrounding differences between human and animals. The argument is that “the same evolutionary forces of cooperation and competition have shaped both humans and animals” (Bekoff 1). He goes into depth saying that we share emotions and interactions with animals, like holding funerals, and that the only difference is just in the magnitude, not the actions themselves. “Authentic Love and the Mother-Child Relationship.” Cartin Gibson examines In Being and Nothingness from Jean-Paule Sartre, discussing the authenticity of love and Gibson claims that Sartre's points of inauthentic love are invalid in the case of mother to child love. Gibson’s four points for mother-child love to be authentic are “In order to show that the love between mother and child is authentic, I argue the four following points. First, the mother-child relation is not characterised by a desire to be God; second, it is an authentic relationship, in that there is a mutual comprehension of the Other’s freedom; third, this authentic relation is one of authentic love, by virtue of its generosity; and finally, the love between mother and child lacks the triple destructibility” (69) Gibson’s first point is that the relationship between mother and child deals with working for each other rather than for one’s own self and can also be interpreted as not possessing the dynamic of one ruling over the other. He goes on to talk about how there are survival risks involved in relationships with authentic love as one party may risk themselves to protect the other. “Species Questions [Gattungsfragen]: Humanity and Nature from Marx to Shiva.” Victor Wallis argues that Karl Marx downplays the effect of human classist societies effect on nature and how it abuses nature in the present day. He claims that “shaped overwhelmingly by purely private criteria, whose effects have pointed mostly towards expansion”(Wallis 503). |