The Self-Destruction of Humank
The Self-Destruction of Humankind in R. U. R. In Karel Capek's play R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) the idealistic young Helena Glory arrives at the remote island factory of Rossum's Universal Robots, on a mission from a humanitarian organization devoted to liberating the Robots, which are being sold to the world as cheap labour force. Although Helena's decision to ask Dr. Gall, the head of the Physiological and Experimental Department of R. U. R., to make the robots more human was a foolish, naive miscalculation which leads to the extermination of the human race, she isn't the only one to blame for the destructive consequences of Rossum's Universal Robots. Helena Glory arrives at the factory of Rossum's Universal Robots as a representative of a group which wants to give more human rights to the robots. This is a contradiction in itself because one can't give something non-human the rights of a human. So in order to achieve her request the robots have to become more like human. But this request is very naive because Helena only considers the non-destructive human characteristics like love, to have a soul and to have a free will. The human features she doesn't think which robots shouldn't have are the will not to have a
Gall isn't to good in playing God because he is the one to give the robots a better brain than humans have, a soul and all the other dangerous characteristics. Domin believes that he's got everything under control and that he is so mighty that he is able to absolutely knows all of modern engineering but he doesn't because he lets Dr. Harry Domin being the manager could symbolise the governments, politicians or rulers who have the power to stop what was going on but didn't stop the robots from taking over the world and killing all human beings on earth. The first impression that Helena is fault of "the end of the world" (p. master just like Radius, a highly developed robot, says to Helena (p. This attribute was the one which lead to the extinction of the human race. At some point of the play Helena reads the newspaper and finds out that no more births are being recorded (p. The people in this play who pretend as if they were God are also fault of the cost which has to be paid at the end of the play. Secondly, practically everybody stopped working and therefore lost their ability to work because the people didn't have any motivation to work. The best biblical example is where the people want to be God and God wipes out the human race through a flood. That's why the robtos want to rule over others just like Radius tells Helena (p. At first Helena believed that it would be useful and good for the robots be more like the human race but she didn't see what her request to Dr.
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