Description
In R. U. R. Capek dramatizes the impending danger to mankind's vitality of machine-like efficiency. Here is a pleasing fantasy attempting to develop a notion implicit in Mrs. Shelley's Frankenstein, the peril of man's creating a monster destined eventually to destroy him. Of course, Capek changes this notion somewhat by giving it a social application. It seems that he is primarily concerned with the future of mankind. However, his "planetary consciousness" has not a scientific basis; it springs rather from a desire to save human values from the enslavement of industrial civilization.
Recommended Citation
Lukenbill, Charles
(1947)
"Capek's Masterpiece,"
Manuscripts: Vol. 15
:
Iss.
3
, Article 10.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/manuscripts/vol15/iss3/10
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