Frankenstein, I,Robot and Utopia
des. 9th, 2012 by jobasfer
I have decided to link these three works to see how it tests the human mind as how there are a number of rules in our society. Mary Shelley dreamt about a scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made. The creation of a being through science we see it in I, Robot and in Frankenstein. In both works we see we need a set of rules of ethics that guide the creatures. This guide should lead to a utopia where scientific creativity and humanity itself came together in perfect harmony. But we can clearly see in these novels of fiction that this is not possible, that society is not prepared for this kind of science and creatures. This leads me to think about the morals and ethics of man, that perhaps we are not smart enough or tolerant.
The Robots of Isaac Asimov have a more perfect moral as the society in the Utopia of Thomas More, but in contrast the creature of Frankenstein is more human so it is more imperfect or impure. Those three authors through their novels tried to show us another way of being. Also they show the structure of society how it is, how it could be and why we are how we are.