Isaac Asimov Reason
In my opinion, Isaac Asimov uses humor and irony first to mock QT, Powell and Donovan with the help of humorous situations that happen in the story. QT does not believe that he was created by people and tries to analyze and find the answers. He does not believe in what the Earthmen tell him, even in what he read in books. When QT says that his purpose is to serve the Master, Powell and Donovan laugh at him and his words. But the real irony is that QT acts the same way all the people do – they try to find the real reason and aim of their existence, create religions and worship prophets.
In the story it is said that QT is the first robot “who’s ever exhibited curiosity as to his own existence”. To my mind, QT obeys the laws of robotic mandate, but does it in his own way. QT refused to obey the Earthmen, but he created for himself the Master and performs his orders. All in all, he performs all the duties and has a build-in program that controls him.
David is similar to Pinocchio, because they both have real human feelings. In the story David expresses the love to his mother by writing the letters to her and his feeling are more real and ‘human’ than Monica’s. The difference is that Pinocchio became a real boy at the end and David will be sent back to the factory to fix his “verbal communication-center”.
I think that David’s love is similar to the love of the child, because he thinks about his mother all the time, and tries to express his love to her by writing her letters (“Darling Mummy, I’m your one and only son and I love you so much”) and picking roses, which “beauty and softness reminded him of Mummy”.
Works Cited
Aldiss, Brian. "Super-Toys Last All Summer Long". WIRED. N.p., 2016. Web. 10 June 2016.
Asimov, Isaac. I, Robot. New York: Bantam Books, 2004. Print.
