The Role of Nature

MAN Vs.

TECHNOLOGY

How nature is presented in the books

Frankenstein• Personal Therapy

– “…although they did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranquillized it.” (66)

“The sight of the awful and majestic in nature had always the effect of solemnizing my mind and causing me to forget the passing cares of life.” (66)

• Lack of Depth in Personal Relationships

RUR• Something to copy• Trying to do nature’s job through technology• Destruction of human kind

• “You see, so many robots are being manufactured that people are becoming superfluous, man is really a survival. But that man should begin to die out... to restrict (the robot) production… mankind will become extinct through lack of fertility.” (29)

Downfall of nature due to technology

• Makes its point in many books and movies– Frankenstein– I Am Legend– R.U.R

Frankenstein• Murder of William• Murder of Elizabeth

I Am Legend

• Vaccines• Wipes out the human race

R.U.R

• Robots revolt• Human race to become extinct