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An analysis of a struggle between the worlds of the dominator and the dominated through Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Karel Čapek's R.U.R and Isaac Asimov's I, robot

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2016
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Despite the fact that not only Mary Shelley's ignored and abandoned Frankenstein but also the robots are generally supposed as the tinny machines in some dystopian works such as Karel Čapek's R.U.R. and Isaac Asimov's I, Robot. These three works report a fiction about the artiificial lives created by human beings and the mutual relationship among these works can be mentioned like that all the authors have displayed the potential danger of man's bequested willing of claiming the role of God. The major characters in Frankenstein or R.U.R. attempt to create an artificial life with an excessive desire to control and reach the secrets of nature. It seems as if it questions about the presence of God when viewed from this side, but the theme which is basically focused on throughout the study is the struggle between the worlds of the dominator and the dominated. At the begining, their purpose is to help the humanity, serving better living conditions but then it is understood that the truth is totally different. The truth is as old as humanity. The powerful feeling that perfectly captures the human being is his hubris. On the other hand, the creature and the robots created by human beings seem to feel mostly lonely and strange in the society. Although they unconcsiously begin to be compared with humans, which partly means that they are seen the same as human beings, they are never accepted as an individual by human society. As a consequence of these damaging feelings, they unfortunately attempt to destroy their creator. It is something like a rule of the real world. First, human beings start thinking that they have godlike power while creating those artificial lives. As a matter of fact, creating such creatures which are really like human beings in some points, humans actually try to destroy their creator, who is God himself. Then, the human made creatures start to destroy human beings. This situation could be a punishment to humankind. Every attempt to destroy to law of the nature brings another destruction on humankind. As seen in the following pages, it has been the same in the history as well and every time a struggle has the one winning. The reason why human beings are looking for better choice than death seems that they are creatures many of whom are afraid of dissappering, whom are consciously willing to have a better human race for developing their civilization, and whom believe in their uniqueness with their unique mind. The idea of being immortal attracts humans' attention. Because death is terrifying to most people and this fear from past to present cause human beings reject the truth and seek for another solution for their conscious or unconscious desires. The message of these three works concerning the future would appear dystopian. However, many of the improvements in socio-economic and socio-political areas affect the situation in the natural frame of man and society that would be considered as some positive advancement yet it would horrify mankind. Because this new world order, combined with mankind's limitless enthusiasm reveals it as a great risk for humanity for he creates an artificial life, and then it turns into a struggle between the dominator and the dominated which ends with potential destruction and degradation of both sides.

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Tuğba Canlı Afyon

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Tuğba Canlı Afyon (Master Thesis). An analysis of a struggle between the worlds of the dominator and the dominated through Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Karel Čapek's R.U.R and Isaac Asimov's I, robot, 2016, İstanbul Aydın University.

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