In Class Blog: Figuring Out My Theme

  1. The writers of Dollhouse use the many instances of people using Dolls to fulfill their fantasies to argue that, since the Dolls can’t make decisions for themselves, those people imposing their wills upon the Dolls are morally wrong because they are using another unknowing human for their own personal pleasure. In the first scene we see that Joel Mynor used his immense wealth as a popular children's cartoon creator to create a fantasy world for himself. The second scene shows that the Dolls cannot make decisions for themselves because she does not try and stop Joe Hearn from making sexual advances upon her. The real world implications of this argument are that human trafficking is a worldwide problem that affects more people than most realize. Many families are torn apart due to this atrocity and for some it is the only option to survive. In Eastern Asia millions of individuals and families are ruined by being forced into the world of human trafficking. While people may acknowledge that this happens, they do little as a whole to try and prevent it.

2. Possible Themes:

     a.) Human Trafficking

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      a.) Human trafficking relates perfectly to the television show Dollhouse because in the show people pay for an individual to perform an act that is either sexual or otherwise and human trafficking works almost the same way by some group using a poor person or persons to do labor or some other deed that is seen as below that groups status or to perform sexual acts for money.