Blog post #7

Caryl Churchill's play A Number depicts how nurture plays a roll in how people end up being. This is done with a clone and showing how he ends up being different from the original simply by the way he was raised. Bernard 1, the original, had a very sad childhood because his father didn't pay much attention to him and never was there for him when he was needed. However for Bernard 2, he did the complete opposite and showered him affected and appealed to his every need. This shows how even though genetic clones can be raised by the same person and still end up being different, leading to human identity being more unique even if it were to be compared to that of your clone. Churchill does this by showing Micheal Black and Bernard 2, the clones of Bernard 1, each having different paths and success stories. Churchill sides with nurture along with nature lead to human identity and not just one's genes. So this leads to human cloning not being as skeptical as once thought to be because even thought a person can have 21 different clones, none of them are ever going to end being the same exact person unless they both grew up under the exact same conditions and experiences, which face it will never truly happen unless its an experiment and even then the way the clones process that wont be the same as the original.