Case Study Dylar

1. After a lengthy discussion in their bedroom about Dylar, Jack tells her,“I’m tentatively scheduled to die. It won’t happen tomorrow or the next day. But it is in the works”. This is ironic because everyone is “tentatively scheduled die” at some point in their lives. He cannot tell Babbette when he is going to die because the computer technician did not even give him an estimated date. This is due to the fact that they do not know much about Nyodene D. The brief description of Jack’s diagnosis is satirizing how little information they computer technicians have about the possible side effects.
2. Mr. Gray is a project manager who conducts secret research on Dylar that is too dangerous for human testing. Babette comes to the arrangement that she will sleep with him if he continues to prescribe her Dylar. She takes the pills to help deal with her fear of death. Jack reaction is that he tries to convince Babette she is suffering from something else and overall their fear of death increases.
3. Winnie Richards is a neurochemist at the College-on-the-Hill. Winnie talks about a communal ego in the sense that everyone can have the same quality. For example, the quality of “brilliance” can be used to describe many different kinds of people. However,
Contemporary society is in the lucrative business of “death avoidance” because of the technological advancements of the time period and how they impact society. In the novel, technological simulations have occurred that have allowed the citizens of Blacksmith to prepare for them along with future natural disasters. Dylar is a satire of this preoccupation because it is an innovation in technology that blocks neurotransmitters in the brain which contain the fear of death. The study is secret because the drug is far too dangerous to test on humans. This is mainly satirical it is meant to help people who suffer from the fear of death, however the side effects of this pill could be leading someone like Babette closer to