Where did they go wrong?

For essay #2 my broad topic is the use and responsibility of a creator over its intelligent creation and the relation of technology to this process. The first piece of evidence comes from Frankenstein and Victor’s complete lack of control of his creation and thus his empowerment of the Monster. In Rossum’s Universal Robots comes the second with the gradual empowerment of the Robots through the sloth of humanity. The final piece of evidence comes again from Rossum’s Universal Robots as the plans of manipulating the Robots with limited emotions and feelings to control them.
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the principle character fails to exert any control of his creation, in fact he outright deserts it. This leaves the monster to its own devices allowing it to come up with its own terrible outlook on humanity. Clearly no control has very negative affects but at least the Monster has some concept of the sublime through its own observations. This in effect contrasts nicely with the case of Rossum’s Robots.
Rossum’s Robots were originally created to serve man with no sense of self-worth, pain or resistance. But with a gradual increase in freedom yet with the retention of oppression the Robots eventually revolt. With the oppressive nature of the Robots existence they are compelled to rebel. So it would seem that too much control is also negative.
Further evidence of this comes from the plans of Domin to creation division among the robots to keep them from uniting. He also sought to give the robots pain so that they would learn not to damage themselves. These two facets of control are manipulative to the extreme, but ultimately in part, at least with the feeling of pain, contribute to the humanization of the robots.
These three pieces of evidence all share the same common trait, which is the reaction of a creation to the misuse of control. When left without any limitations the creation of man is free to draw its conclusions as to the value of the human race. As the creation is separate from mankind it is free to do so. But when oppressed it is forced to draw a negative image of humanity.