![]() Thus, “R.U.R.,” which gave birth to the robot, was a critique of mechanization and the ways it can dehumanize people. He is not concerned to prove, but to manufacture. Young Rossum is the modern scientist, untroubled by metaphysical ideas scientific experiment is to him the road to industrial production. ![]() His desire to create an artificial man - in the chemical and biological, not mechanical sense - is inspired by a foolish and obstinate wish to prove God to be unnecessary and absurd. Brain”), is a typical representative of the scientific materialism of the last century. Rossum (whose name translated into English signifies “Mr. In that same interview, Čapek reflected on the origin of one of the play’s characters: “The product of the human brain has escaped the control of human hands,” Čapek told the London Saturday Review following the play’s premiere. ![]() He was also deeply skeptical of the utopian notions of science and technology. Like many of his peers, he was appalled by the carnage wrought by the mechanical and chemical weapons that marked World War I as a departure from previous combat. BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently.īy the time his play “R.U.R.” (which stands for “Rossum’s Universal Robots”) premiered in Prague in 1921, Karel Čapek was a well-known Czech intellectual. ![]()
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