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I would like to focus my topic for my analytical research paper on the ethical and theological implications of the Dollhouse's technology.  Every episode, the morality and ethics are questioned surrounding the motives and actions of the corporation that is running the underground establishment across the globe by the viewer.  The argument can be made that the actives being sent on missions and engagements by the dollhouse are all volunteers in search of ultimate wealth or an escape from everyday normal life.  The volunteers are erased of their memories and personalities and forced to live like soul-less dolls in a dollhouse where everything is controlled and decided for them by the organization.  These volunteers are given the promise that, after five years of service, their memories and personalities will be restored, as well as a large deposit into their bank accounts.  The moral implications come into play because these people are put in high-risk situations against their will that they cannot personally control the outcome.  Also, many of the engagements that the actives are purchased for involve sexual and romantic fantasies of the clients.  This is prostitution at a whole new level because the actives are entirely unknowing of what is happening.  I wanted to focus mostly on the season finale, "Epitaph One", because it depicts a future of what could go wrong with this technology.  The main character are also brought to realize the moral complicity and ultimately that what the organization is doing is immoral and wrong.