Ash and Martha

Martha and Ash are the main characters from the episode "Be Right Back" in the "Black Mirror" Netflix series. Ash dies in an accident leaving Martha pregnant. Martha's friend recommends an application that will help her get through her recent loss. At first, Martha reacts angrily, but later she finds the app comforting. It replicates how Ash would respond verbally to a person by using Ash's social media records. Martha takes a step further into this new process and she buys a robot that will attempt to mimic most of Ash as perfectly as possible. The following are just some of my personal insights. Martha's reaction to her husbands' death was completely normal at first. She went through most of the phases of moorning shich include denial, anger, acceptance, and moving on. She began by not wanting to acknowledge that Ash was actually dead. She starts by emailing and texting Ash2. When she realizes that she can be able to talk to the application as if it were Ash1 she feels like that is a solution for what she is feeling. This demonstrates her denial of the fact that she is alone now. Martha then chooses to buy a robot because the app was not enough of her husband. She was having trouble letting go. Her desire to find more of her husband through technology grows. Once she realizes that Ash1 is gone for good and that nothing she does will ever bring him back completely, she goes into the phase of anger. Martha demands the robot to act more like Ash. When she tries to order the robot jump into the water, she tells him that Ash is gone. Martha is accepting that the robot is just a reflection of what her husband was. The robot can never perfectly replecate the imperfections that Ash was made up of. It would be a dilema since he was made to act as perfectly as possible. Martha realizes this and stores him in the atic. The only part missing from the process of moorning, in Martha's life, is moving on. She visits the robot in the atic weekly. If she had destroyed or gotten rid of the robot, this would be proof that she has moved on with her life. Instead, she keeps a part of Ash2 to remind her of Ash1. Like keeping a wrapper once the contents it held are gone, she keeps Ash 2.