Shifting Power Dynamics and Transgressive Ethics: The Representation of Human-Android Relations in Contemporary Science Fiction Literature and Film

Abstract

Through the thesis, I am analyzing three films and a short story. These chosen narratives depict humanity crucially intertwined with robotics. In the paper, I will demonstrate how robots are prone to transgress human boundaries and I will explain how they are present in the narratives. Through ethics, I will examine how the robots overstep the rules made by humans, and I will use several phylosophical and ethical notion to prove this. The thesis also uses Isaac Asimov's notion of the Three Laws of Robotics as a basis.