Formalistic Approach to Karel Capek's R.U.R

In Karel Capek's Rossum's Universal Robots (R.U.R.), the text speaks of a metaphor because it explains the resemblance or likeness of robots and humans, as well as its differences. Also, it speaks of old and young (engineer) Rossum who were able to produce these replicas of human beings. Another is about how these Russums tried to pretend like God and justified their actions that it was for the sake of humanity, for them to live a life of luxury and without hard labor, or labor per se.

I think the object that was defamiliarized was the robot. We already have a schema on how a robot looks like. Basically, it is a machine and without human emotions at all. But in the text, it was showed that robots were made to look exactly like humans. The old Rossum wanted just to create another human being and not just robots, but he failed to make it successful for it only lived for three days. Unlike the old Rossum, the young Rossum......

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