After watching almost the full first season of Dollhouse, there a lot of character with distinctive characters that attract me a lot; however, the deepest impression for me is how the company treat its employees. Exteriorly, the Dollhouse really provide an excellent environment for employees; however, when they are accepted the treatment and execute the task, the company is really cold-blooded. They let actives to suffer extremely pain, participate in tough missions and have the rule to give up them once they fail the tasks. I don’t like the way they treat employees. Not only the employees get hurt in both metal and physical aspect, but also the enterprise itself receives damages. There are a lot of scenes to see how the employees get hurts, but also several scenes in later episodes also shows how the company get damaged. As a result, my proposed argument is: What’s the benefit for both companies and employees if companies treat employees well?
In the real world, there are also a lot of employees being treated badly. Firms always want to increase their profit, but sometimes with extreme methods. However, using the employees exceeding is bad for the company. When the companies overuse their workers, they will undergo big pressure and get physical degradation, the production of the company will also be affected. Conversely, nowadays, there are still a lot of companies changed their rules to take care of their staff to make sure the general operation of their firms. Furthermore, workers will also be satisfied with working in the company continuously.
You seem to be saying that in these episodes the writers of Dollhouse are aguing that it is worth the risk of their employees to get certain things accomplished. The main evidence for this argument seems to be the harsh treatment, both physically and mentally, of the show's employees as they are set out to accomplish rough missions. The argument is timely because there is unfair and unjust behavior like this going on in some of the real worlds industires also. Have you thought about connecting this argument to the treatment of workers with severe working conditions in our world. This is how I see these two connecting the characters in Dollhouse are physically and mentally damage by completing tough tasks and giving up on the people, who are then damaged, if they dont produce the right outcome and in the real world some industries are allowing workers to work long, difficult workdays with low pay based because they are of certain nationality. I think analyzing this episode and the real worlds problems together could be beneficial because this can eventually turn into a larger problem in our world.
ReplyDeleteYour argument of treating employees well versus treating them badly is solid. The evidence you provided from the second episode does show that the employees are not treated very respectfully and this almost leads to Echo’s death. It is sad that the employees and the dolls are treated like machines or objects rather than human beings. If you classify the dolls as employees too I think an even more convincing argument can be made. Noting the differences between how the actual employees are treated versus the dolls can further support your claims. You mentioned how firms and cooperate enterprises can be very greedy when all they care about is profit. Evidence could be supplied from the real world if you look at past law suits of big companies who are not treating their employees with respect. More evidence could be found be searching through other countries (other than the USA) work and labor laws. Researching child labor laws might also be helpful. I liked that you drew a connection to appropriate treatment of employees to productivity. It is well known that an individual will perform better, and will want to perform better, if they are being treated with respect. It also helps when they can be assured that they are working for appropriate pay and benefits. Analyzing this aspect of the episode is a very good choice for writing a 7 page paper. There are numerous perspectives you could research to support your claims. There is also support for your argument throughout the entire season. You only mentioned 3 episodes, but if needed there is probably some proof in every episode.
ReplyDeleteYou seem to be saying that through Episode 2, 4&9, the writers are arguing that no matter how hard and cruel the missions are, the dolls have to accept them and accomplish them. The main evidences for this argument seem to be that Echo was assigned to take an adventure with an insane guy and almost got killed by him in episode 2, and when Echo failed the task and got caught by the police, the dollhouse is trying to kill her.
ReplyDeleteYou make a very nice connection between the Dollhouse and the real world. How the company treats people is a very unique topic. Have you thought about connecting the suicide rates in the world and how there are more and more office ladies get sick easily to the topic? They both are showing how cruelly company treats their employees. Companies always put making profits as their priority, so this is a very nice topic to discuss!
You seem to be saying that through "The Target", the writers of Dollhouse are arguing that if companies treated their employees better, they would increase their profits, and it would make the company better as a whole. The main evidence for this argument seems to be instances of negative behavior between employees and actives in the dollhouse. The argument is untimely because because labor laws have been in affect since the 30's I believe, and this particular episode doesn't really have that many examples of negative behavior among dollhouse staff. Have you though about using the company Google as a real world correlation. I see the two things connected because you say that companies should treat employees better to keep them happy and thus more productive, and that is exactly what Google does, I read that Google is one of the top companies in the world to work for. I think connecting the two could be fruitful because there is alot of information available on Google's employee relations, check on MSNBC, there a documentary on the whole operation.
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