'Humans' - A highly Polysemic show (KEY THEORY 10&11)

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'Humans' -  A highly Polysemic show

This means that it is a different show for different people - so it can attract a larger audience. However, it can also be very complex and hard to understand because it is polysemic.

Anita can be compared to a washing machine as she is a female synth as women stereotypically supposed to do the housework in the home. This is reinforced by the hawkins family calling her 'it' and 'that' of which suggests she is basically just their slave. it reinforces the male view of what women serve as a purpose in society, they just have to do what they are told.

Cyborg - A half robot, half human (Cybernetic organism).

Glasses are a form of improving our quality of life, they help you able to see and theoretically make you a cyborg. Globalisation has improved our lives through the use of technologies, this also makes us cyborgs, for example all our clothes are made through the use of globalisation.

What is Humanity?


- We live to find fulfilment, we have achieved more than eating, sleeping, reproducing and dying. we are far more sophisticated than any other species.

- We feel Empathy

- We are inquisitive, we try to understand why we are here and stuff in science.

- We have an education system which assumes we want to learn in order to make ourselves better and improve the species.

- We are ingenuis, we have survived by finding alternative solutions to our problems

- We feel love, a complicated emotion that we revolve our lives around



Anita represents humans, she is more than a washing machine, she makes us question what makes us human and what makes us different to a robot. This is an allegory.

Gender Performativity - Judith Butler (KEY THEORY 10)

Identity is a performance, and it is constructed through a series of acts and 'expressions' that we perform everyday. Whilst there are biological differences dictated by sexes, our gender is defined through a series of acts. these may include the way we walk, talk dress and so on. Therefore, there is no gender identity behind these expressions of gender. Gender performativity is not a singular act, but a repetition and a ritual. It is outlined and reinforced through dominant patriarchal ideologies.

Feminist Theory - bell hooks (KEY THEORY 11)


Feminism is for everybody. The worlds issues can be solved by ending patriarchal oppression.(See previous notes for this theory)

Patriarchal oppression in 'Humans':

- Joe puts his foot down and states "Well we're not taking her back"
- The man rapes the female synth
- Joe sleeps with the female synth
- There is never any question of getting a male synth "I hope SHE'S pretty"
- Joe is the one who buys the synth in the first place
- Joe is the 'Primary User' of which suggests he has more control over the synth than the rest of them
- The salesman is male and is selling a woman

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