Blog post #7

Caryl Churchill's play shows us the natural human desire by salter to make up for his past wrongs by cloning his son. Things do not go as planned, and there is a tragic ending. We can learn a lot on science through storytelling however, we should keep in mind scientific experiments aren't always successful. Quotes in the play A Number written by Caryl Churchill about Human Cloning engage in proving this point. Churchill leaves it up to the reader to decide whether human cloning is a bad or good idea.
Quote#1
Salter: "what I want to know is how you actually, what you, how you got him to go off to some remote because that's what I'm imaging, you don't shoot the lodger without the landlady hearing"(Churchill). In making this comment Churchill argues that human cloning has many perils. Clones can be killed withno evidence of death. This raises conflict in violence therefore, if killing can be so simple without trace backs then more crimes would be committed.
Quote #2
"What they've done they've damaged your uniqueness, weakened your identity, so we're looking at five million for a start"(churchill152). Basically,Churchill illustrates in this quote, Salter a selfish father influencing his cloned son to sue the hosptial however, salter doesn't really care about his son he's more worried about the money.