Introduction to Essay 1

Okay, I admit, I have not changed the introduction at all....but I think it's a little short, so I might...who knows?

•         In the short story No Woman Born by C.L. Moore, an actress named Deirdre loses every portion of her physical body apart from her brain to the ravages of a theater fire. To replace the flesh that once enraptured the world, a scientist named Maltzer creates a golden, robotic body to house Deirdre’s denuded brain. Deirdre’s humanity from this point forward is an eminent topic in the minds of Maltzer and Deirdre’s manager Harris. They believe that her position as a human being is unsound, as the actress has only the mind and not the flesh to keep her grounded in the human race. However, in order to allay any fears about her human state, Deirdre inadvertently reveals another fundamental component in society’s definition of humanity: the performance of normalcy.