Why Is Lincoln Six-Echo Still Dehumanized?

There are many places in today’s world where it is very common that people are being dehumanized. Dehumanizing humans was used in multiple cases in the movie, The Island. In Michael Bay’s film, The Island, all of the clones, including Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta are dehumanized in one way or another. Although, Lincoln Six Echo is unorthodox, he and the other clones are still dehumanized in many different ways. First, The clones are only given a elementary education. This is dehumanizing them because Dr. Merrick, the scientist in charge of the compound, does not allow them to learn, which doesn’t let the clones be curious about their life. For most of Lincoln’s life he is content with being in the compound, and is even grateful for
being in the compound and not in the real world. Dr. Merrick also dehumanizes Lincoln and the others by letting them think that the outside world is contaminated. By letting the clones think this, they are happy that they were saved from this contamination. The clones are also loyal to the scientist because they think they were lucky to be a survivor of this contamination. Also, the clones are not aware that they are clones. They believe that they are their own person, which is not the case. The clones are made for one reason and one reason only, which is to be a life insurance policy for their sponsor. This is particularly evil because his or her only purpose in life is to die at the right time for someone else. Another way they are all dehumanized is because they are not allowed to feel sad or mad. When one of the patients got upset in the elevator, the compound had guards at the bottom, waiting for him to calm him down. Clearly, it is easy to say that there were many different ways that the corporation dehumanized the clones. This movie relates to our dystopian unit because in all the books we have read, there have been some sort of dehumanizing individuals. For example, the author dehumanized people in The Handmaids Tale by giving each class a different color. In the film, The Island, Michael Bay leaves the audience thinking more about what dehumanizing can do to a person and the many different ways it can be done.