His week we discussed the book The Caves of Steel by Asimov. The booked was placed in the future where there was life on other planets and where robots were widely accepted. On Earth, Asimov predicted a population of 8 billion and a situation where humans live inside domes and never left the ventilated air and process food. The way Asimov painted Earth is not so different today. The population today is 7.4 billion and growing, and in cities, many buildings and transits are connected, sometimes underground or by enclosed walkways. On Earth, robots weren’t widely accepted.
Personally, I don’t think we are ready for change. For one, humans resist large changes. I think yes these days we love to update every electronic we have, yet if we introduced …show more content…
Jessie was the main women character in the story and during our class discussion, we talked about how she was often considered hysterical, weak, bitter, impulsive, and other negative attributes. Jessie was like a robot to society, she had a husband and son and was treated as a robot. Her husband thought of her almost less than him, someone whose only job was to support him and gossip in the bathroom. The other woman mentioned in the book was Elizabeth, an old maid who was Jessie’s co-worker and a Medievalist. This negative portrayal of women in Asimov’s book is not as surprising as some may find. The book was published in 1954, which was in between the first and second waves of feminism. If the book was published now, I think more people would talk about its lack of female characters and the way they are shown. We see the negative portrayal or the empowering portrayal of men all the time in stories; consider the fairy tales that we read our children. The women are beautiful, helpless, and their goal throughout the story is to find a husband. I know I am generalizing, but for most fairy tales the men are heroic and the women are dependent on the
Personally, I don’t think we are ready for change. For one, humans resist large changes. I think yes these days we love to update every electronic we have, yet if we introduced …show more content…
Jessie was the main women character in the story and during our class discussion, we talked about how she was often considered hysterical, weak, bitter, impulsive, and other negative attributes. Jessie was like a robot to society, she had a husband and son and was treated as a robot. Her husband thought of her almost less than him, someone whose only job was to support him and gossip in the bathroom. The other woman mentioned in the book was Elizabeth, an old maid who was Jessie’s co-worker and a Medievalist. This negative portrayal of women in Asimov’s book is not as surprising as some may find. The book was published in 1954, which was in between the first and second waves of feminism. If the book was published now, I think more people would talk about its lack of female characters and the way they are shown. We see the negative portrayal or the empowering portrayal of men all the time in stories; consider the fairy tales that we read our children. The women are beautiful, helpless, and their goal throughout the story is to find a husband. I know I am generalizing, but for most fairy tales the men are heroic and the women are dependent on the