So much I have read and experience of “Rhinoceros” for the last few weeks, the beautiful part was the greatest opportunity of viewing the play last 8 December 2005. Here I am can’t be getting enough of my time exploring deeper and deeper into “RUR”.
It surprised me that this Czech playwright Karel Capek from the Czech word for “forced labor” or “serf” coined the term robot. Capek used the word Robot in “RUR” which opened in Prague in January 1921, which was exactly 40 years before I was even born. “RUR” is a play in which robots are mass-produced by an Englishman, Rossum. The robots in the very beginning are meant to make a better life for human beings but finally rebel and wipe out humanity and start a new race of intelligent life for them.
The evidence in similarity between “Rhinoceros” and “RUR” is that both are transformation into another entity of the origin they exist, from human to beast in “Rhinoceros” and from machine to human in “RUR”.
This is quite an achievement for me considering the fact it was only yesterday I stumbled into “RUR” and for the last few hours researching further on it. And as for “The Adding Machine”, I am still trying to figure out how best I can map the three great work of literature together, one of absurdism, the other expressionistic and this one a sci-fiction.
It surprised me that this Czech playwright Karel Capek from the Czech word for “forced labor” or “serf” coined the term robot. Capek used the word Robot in “RUR” which opened in Prague in January 1921, which was exactly 40 years before I was even born. “RUR” is a play in which robots are mass-produced by an Englishman, Rossum. The robots in the very beginning are meant to make a better life for human beings but finally rebel and wipe out humanity and start a new race of intelligent life for them.
The evidence in similarity between “Rhinoceros” and “RUR” is that both are transformation into another entity of the origin they exist, from human to beast in “Rhinoceros” and from machine to human in “RUR”.
This is quite an achievement for me considering the fact it was only yesterday I stumbled into “RUR” and for the last few hours researching further on it. And as for “The Adding Machine”, I am still trying to figure out how best I can map the three great work of literature together, one of absurdism, the other expressionistic and this one a sci-fiction.
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