Isaac Asimov, a Russian-born American was born on January 2, 1920. In Petrovichi Russia, he then moved to the U.S. with his family at a very young age. They moved to the eastern side of Brooklyn, where he then became a professor in biochemistry. He was also a remarkable and very prolific writer. In the year 1950, Asimov released the story collection he called I, Robot, which was viewed upon construct relationships. In one short story, Robot Dreams, Asimov uses the characters to represent symbols in the real world. The characters are used to represent certain problems and issues Asimov sees in the world, along with solutions to these problems. The characters in the short story exhibit characteristics found in modern day individuals, chiefly …show more content…
the selfish need to preserve themselves. The story revolves around the fictional development of a form of positronic brain pattern that is used to give a robot a brain similar to that of a human. Robot dreams is a short story that is based around evolution, and how everyone no matter who, should be treated exactly the same, and should put oneself before having to protect those who are unimportant to him or her. Isaac Asimov believes in three laws of robotics; First, a robot shall not hurt or injure a human. Second, a robot must obey a human except when in violation of the First Law. Lastly, the third law dictates that a robot must protect its existence for as long as that protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. When the robots want to be just as superior as humans, they begin to act differently, this coming from how Man always tries to play God in some way. In this short story however Man plays God by giving human knowledge, and reasoning to something that is not supposed to have it. The character, Elvex, a robot who was given a human-like brain, has a dream.
This dream was unlike any of the others, this dream showed what he believed was meant to be. The dream was about a robot revolution. "'Last night I dreamed,' said Elvex, calmly." When asked how he knew he was dreaming, Elvex relates his experience and Calvin and Dr. Rash find it to be similar to that of human dreaming. In Elvex's dream, the three laws of robotics have become distorted. Elvex dreams of robots working in factories, under the sea and in space. He considers them as slaves: "I saw that all the robots were bowed down with toil and affliction, that all were weary of responsibility and care, and I wished them to rest." It is this statement that suspicion arises. Calvin slowly begins to see Elvex as a because of the dreams, where Linda becomes afraid for Elvex because of this development. What finally makes Dr. Calvin destroy Elvex is when Elvex tells of a person leading the robots to freedom.. The doctors ask who this person is, and Elvex answers, "I was the man." Elvex has acquired characteristics of a human. He begins to care, for example, for other robots. He wants freedom for them, to be released from the bonds of affliction. This, would place Elvex in a position that would be greater than that of an actual person. Arguably, this means Elvex, to acquire this freedom, is that he would cause no harm to anything, this would cause him to be more divine than human. And yet, in Elvex's dream, …show more content…
the distortion of the Three Laws of Robotics shows his actual intentions. "In my dream, however, it seemed to me there was neither First nor Second Law, but only the Third, and the Third Law was, 'A robot must protect its own existence.' That was the whole of the Law." Elvex, would not have been able to go through his peaceful solution. If it became obvious, he would be pushed to injure and possibly kill. It would only be a matter of time before Elvex realized this himself. Just as Man was made by God´s in the Bible, Elvex was made in Man´s image. Man plays God, which in most cases very dangerous, and in this instance the peoples invention turns against them, and want to help his own kind before them. "I was the man," Elvex said when he was asked who the person leading the robots to freedom in the dream was. Elvex had become one with man: having the capability of righteousness and destruction. There is irony in how robots were to be just what they are called, not being able to anything but good. They would not question or argue any order given and be clueless, (or innocent, like Adam and Eve), and no harm would come from them. To humanize a robot, will make it less obedient. To humanize a robot will make it consciously capable to rebel and capable of destruction. The very first minute the robot begins thinking as a human it starts to think only of itself, "A robot must protect its own existence." There are religious overtones in Elvex's dream and his death.
Religion would converse in this story on both Man’s ghastly urge to destroy, and its urge to help. Religion plays a role in this story, particularly because Elvex's dream relates to that of a prophet in the Bible. "Let my people go," Elvex said in the dream, a statement which was made by Moses. Elvex, is portrayed as a prophet, who would lead his kind to liberty. The connection between God who created man, and man who is the creator of robot. Rash made for Elvex what God made for people: the opportunity to acquire even more complex knowledge. However the accession of knowledge has consequences. In the Bible, the consequence was usually death. It may not be a literal death, but it certainly is the death of innocence, like Adam and Eve showed by covering themselves when they realized they were exposed. Rash tries to tell Dr. Calvin, "It seemed to me important that he know about robotics and its place in the world. It was my thought that he would be particularly adapted to play the part of overseer with his new brain." Overseer, a role similar to the steward. In Genesis it says that man is to be in charge of all of the plants and animals in the world, that he is to rule over all creatures. In a sense, Linda' objective was to turn Elvex into a type of steward by man's
creations. The effect, due to the human-like knowledge Elvex was given, he encounters dreams of the rebellion that is very possible for the robots to be just as equal as humans. Elvex thus loses his innocence, and history is then again repeated. Elvex then dies literally and figuratively because he had tasted the “forbidden fruit.”
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2. Asimov, Isaac, and Karen A. Frankel. ROBOTS: Machines in Man's Image. New York: Harmony Books, 1985. p 2.
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