# Creation and Playing God in R.U.R.

> Theme guide for R.U.R. by Karel Čapek.

The Rossums' artificial creation of life challenges divine authority, with old Rossum seeking to prove God unnecessary and young Rossum treating life as an engineering problem, leading to catastrophic consequences.

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