Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

Mood organ

allows the user to dial variations of settings that alters the brain chemistry to experience multiple emotions and desires

Milt Borogrove

artificial pet repairman at Van Ness Pet Hospital, characterized as caring because he defends Isi even though Isi is socially inferior, audience appreciates and sympathizes with him, establishes that not all humans ostracize chickenheads

Rick Deckard

bounty hunter, husband to Iran Deckard, works for Inspector Bryant, works with Dave Holden, protagonist, sleeps with Rachael Rosen, used to develop themes of human behavior and establish the typical expectations of a citizen in the setting, internal conflict as a result of external conflict

Kipple

random junk that theoretically "reproduces" until it inevitably fills the universe and covers all life, its dominance can only be delayed by its temporary removal and disposal (like in WALL-E)

Harry Bryant

Inspector of the police department that Rick works at

Hannibal Sloat

Isi's boss, head of Van Ness Pet Hospital, anger management issues

Eldon Rosen

Rachael Rosen's uncle, supposedly human, wants to prove the Voigt-Kampff test ineffective so the Rosen Association can build more Nexus-6s and therefore make more money, sends Rachael to learn more about the test so the Nexus-6s can be made to pass it and then emotionally compromise the bounty hunters so they are unable to retire androids, represents the Rosen family and higher, successful society that are able to emigrate, etc.

Buster Friendly

Television show host on the mandatory government channel, typical eccentric, nonsensical, entertainment aficionado, exposes Wilbur Mercer to be a phony, is an android created by the government to feed the public certain ideas, represents government deception, establishes the reality of androids' integration into society despite their supposed inferiority

J. R. Isidore

a "chickenhead," didn't pass the standard IQ test, possibly Asbergers, very sweet, kind and caring, good understanding of societal conventions, works for Hannibal Sloat and Van Ness Pet Hospital driving the truck, eventually becomes friend to Pris Stratton, used as a foil to Rick Deckard, second protagonist, used to develop themes of societal values of morality, empathy, and intelligence (has empathy but not intelligence, socially excluded), audience sympathizes with him

Pris Stratton

a Nexus-6 android that is the same model as Rachael Rosen, moves into the same apartment as Isi to escape retirement, cold and detached like Rachael, friends with all the other androids (Polokov, Batys, Luba, who all came to Earth on the same ship), characterizes Isi by how he responds to and treats her, in particular the scene where she tortures the spider and Isi realizes her lack of empathy must mean she is an android, shows his extent of intelligence

Max Polokov

a Nexus-6 android, injured Dave Holden, posed as Soviet WPO cop Sandor Kadalyi and almost killed Rick before he was retired, first android audience sees Rick retire, therefore establishes routine and atmosphere of danger involved in Rick's job

Rachael Rosen

a Nexus-6 android, part of the Rosen family of the Rosen association, niece of Eldon Rosen, given the Voigt-Kampff test by Rick Deckard and later sleeps with him, cold and detached personality, foil to Iran Deckard, used to develop themes of artificial intelligence and what constitutes a human (has intelligence but not empathy, socially excluded)

Luba Luft

a Nexus-6 android, retired by Rick, was an acclaimed opera singer, Rick likes opera, Rick has difficulty retiring her because he feels an attraction to her, makes him question his capability as a bounty hunter and a human within his society

Empathy box

a box with two handles to be grasped which allows the user to fuse with Mercer

Phil Resch

a cold and detached human bounty hunter whom Rick assumed to be an android because of his character and because he worked at a police department run by androids, Resch had actually been deceived by Rachael Rosen and slept with her as Rick would later, dehumanizing him and even though he was able to continue retiring androids, he has no empathy for them

Dave Holden

senior bounty hunter who was injured by Polokov, allowing his duties to be transferred to Rick, creates circumstance that places Rick in the senior bounty hunter position which provides Rick with the money to buy his goat and his meeting Rachael Rosen and Luba Luft that begins his premonitions toward female androids, represents success in society for Rick

Voigt-Kampff test

test administered by bounty hunters to test one's empathy capability and determine if they are humans or androids, uses a mesh disk to measure involuntary flushing of the cheek and a light beam focused on the eye to measure involuntary pupil dilation while the bounty hunter asks the subject questions intended to elicit an empathetic response

Inspector Garland

the android Inspector at the false police department, retired by Rick, characterizes androids from the perspective of one who is aware that he is an android unlike Rachael and the others

Wilbur Mercer

the false deity or prophet of Mercerism, people "fuse" with Mercer through an empathy box and experience his journey up a hill with others also fusing, hit by rocks thrown by "killers," experience real wounds/blood, dies at the top of the hill and then is resurrected to repeat the journey, later proved to be fake by Buster Friendly, Rick Deckard becomes Mercer, pg. 23-24 connection with Isi? Purpose?

Roy and Irmgard Baty

two married Nexus-6 androids, Roy is big and violent, Irmgard is small and dipsy, friends with Pris, move into the apartment with Pris and Isi to protect themselves, last androids Rick had to retire, he dreaded retiring Roy, but was eventually able to even after sleeping with Rachael, develop suspense for a climax, but their actual retirement is quick and anticlimactic

Iran Deckard

wife to Rick Deckard, chronically depressed, used to develop motif of human emotion, foil to Rachael Rosen