ENG 3 Feb 23 HW

In both books Humans play god and make successful attempts to create artificial intelligence. The creations learn about human society and try to imitate them. In “Frankenstein” the creature observes human which is how he learns to speak and feel more emotions. However the creature is shunned from human society because of his grotesque appearance. After always being hurt by humans he begins to feel anger and hatred killing humans in attempt to hurt his creator. In “R.U.R” the humans create robots to do their work. At first no emotions or free will seems apparent but the robots seem to develop emotions and free will down the line. Both creations just want to be equals in society. Humans still deny both creations free will and acceptance in society so the creations believe that they should be above humans because they are faster, smarter and stronger in everyway. This leads to the creations trying to take over by force, killing humans.

The outcomes of both creations in “Frankenstein” and “R.U.R” would have been completely different if the creators had just accepted them as equals. In “Frankenstein” Victor abandons the creature leaving it to survive on its own, causing the creature to resent Victor. In “R.U.R.” the robots are treated as slaves rather than equals to humans, which again causes resentment towards humans. Both creatures just want accepted by their creators as equals and not to be resented themselves.

The creators always try to create a human substitute but when they succeed they do not react with love and amazement. Instead they think of the creations as less than human even though they are human substitutes. Humans try and imitate themselves but every time they come close they are filled with resentment and never treat the creations as equals.