'Humans and replicants are more alike than they are different'. Discuss.
             Replicants are an artificial life form, created to be stronger, harder working, more intelligent and to have super-natural or paranormal strengths and abilities. However, in many cases, humans and replicants are more alike than they are different. They possess enhanced physical skills, bizarre capabilities to endure surroundings that no human could come close to, for example extreme temperatures, and eerie reflective eyes. Nevertheless, although they may appear to be completely unusual machinery, the replicants desire and hold the same needs as mankind; emotion, thought and life.
             The physical attributes of replicants are, undoubtedly, far superior to those of human beings. They were crafted to work intensely "off-world as slave labour", merely an extension or evolution of actual humans. They were formed from humans, and therefore, although not being entirely physically related, they were still made to be similar in appearance. On approaching a replicant unknowingly, a person of the time in the film Blade Runner, would not easily be aware that they were, in fact, a replicant. On the surface, leaving aside physical strength and agility, the stature of a replicant is very alike humans.
             The largest similarity that makes humans and replicants so unexpectedly alike, is the want and need for emotion. To begin with, replicants are emotionless and must spend time developing thoughts and feelings, but once found, these emotions are important in their unfortunately short lifetime. Replicants are created, and from their incept date, or metaphorical birth, onwards they are alive and seeing the world. It is impossible to undergo this without the mind advancing and finding out what it's really like to live, whether it be in a natural mind, or a genetically engineered one. Roy Batty announces to Deckard, "quite an experience to live in fear ...