![]() ![]() ![]() At the end of the prologue, Domin proposes to Helena. ![]() They discuss making the robots more human, and all of the men fall in love with Helena. Domin explains that the directors are the only humans in the factory. When Helena meets the other directors of R.U.R., she mistakes them all for robots, and tries to organize them to rally for better working conditions. Domin tells her that all the factory workers are robots, and explains how the Rossums-father and son-created robots. He takes a meeting with Helena Glory, the president’s daughter. Domin is working with his robot secretary. The play opens with Domin, a director of Rossum’s Universal Robots (R.U.R.), a factory that supplies the world with robots. This guide cites the 2004 Penguin Classics edition, translated into English by Claudia Novack, with an introduction by Ivan Klima. The theme of Love is central in the play-engendering powerful and healing emotions for both humans and robots. The working conditions of Rossum’s factory offer an opportunity to explore power dynamics created by labor. ![]() He uses the robots’ revolt and eventual annihilation of the human race to explore what it means to be human and the purpose of human life. In R.U.R., Čapek imagines a future world where robots become the world’s workers, laboring for humans. ![]()
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