# R.U.R. — Character guide

> Key figures in R.U.R. by Karel Čapek.

- [Dr. Gall](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/r_u_r_se/characters/dr_gall.md): Dr. Gall runs the physiology department at Rossum's, the man who decides what a Robot's body can feel and endure. Acting on Helena's plea to make the Robots 'more like us,' he quietly alters their irritability for his ow
- [Harry Domin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/r_u_r_se/characters/harry_domin.md): Domin presides over the factory, dictating orders to Southampton and Hamburg and welcoming Helena Glory with the ease of someone who believes he has no secrets worth keeping. He loves Helena, yet he cannot hear her fear:
- [Helena Glory](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/r_u_r_se/characters/helena_glory.md): Helena comes to the factory as an outsider with a cause, warning Domin that she intends to rouse the Robots, and ends up his wife ten years later in the same room. Haunted by the 'cruel strangeness' between humans and Ro
- [Alquist](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/r_u_r_se/characters/alquist.md): Alquist oversees the factory's construction department, a practical man among visionaries who measure the world in orders and output. In the besieged drawing-room he sits apart, listening to Helena's Rachmaninoff while t
- [Radius](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/r_u_r_se/characters/radius.md): Radius is the Robot whose rebellion gives the play its menace, the one whose dissatisfaction spreads through the ranks until the factory is ringed by identical faces. In the besieged house he is felt more than seen: the 
- [Busman](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/r_u_r_se/characters/busman.md): Busman handles the commercial side of R.U.R., the man who turns Robots into invoices, shipping terms, and part payment in coal. He is the play's pragmatist, quick to ask Gall when the experiments began and how many Robot
- [Fabry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/r_u_r_se/characters/fabry.md): Fabry is the hands-on technical mind of the factory, the man who lays cable, barricades stairs, and keeps the electrical works burning as the last proof that humans still function. Where Domin strategizes and Gall broods
- [Hallemeier](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/r_u_r_se/characters/hallemeier.md): Hallemeier oversees the training of Robots, yet in the crisis he is the one stacking barricades and admitting, with a soldier's bluntness, that there's a feeling of death about it all. He is practical, a little sentiment
- [Sulla](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/r_u_r_se/characters/sulla.md): Sulla works among the humans as a typist, one of the manufactured beings whose labor the whole Rossum enterprise depends on. Her place in the domestic world keeps the Robots visible as workers rather than abstractions, s
- [Nana](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/r_u_r_se/characters/nana.md): Helena's elderly nurse and maid, skeptical of robots.
- [Primus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/r_u_r_se/characters/primus.md): Primus is a Robot made on the same day as Helena, and when Alquist threatens to dissect her, he offers his own life instead and threatens to kill the man who would take her. His protectiveness, his jealousy of her touch,
- [Helena (Robot)](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/r_u_r_se/characters/helena_robot.md): Helena is a Robotess who shies away from Alquist's touch, smooths Primus's hair, and asks what use beauty is—yet she weeps, and her tears are the thing Alquist cannot explain away. She and Primus belong to each other wit
- [Old Rossum](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/r_u_r_se/characters/old_rossum.md): The original scientist who discovered the secret of creating artificial life.
- [President Glory](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/r_u_r_se/characters/president_glory.md): Helena's father, president of the Humanity League mentioned but not appearing on stage.

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