Fatal Eggs: Plot Summary

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Science is often criticized in novels for its dangers, or for being too advanced for the current society. In the Eastern European novel, Fatal Eggs, the play, R.U.R., and in the short story, Professor Dowell’s head, the criticism of science is different; it focuses on the harm that can transpire when science is used by unmoral or ill-equipped citizens.
Although the protagonist in Fatal Eggs is a scientist, the story reads as a warning that science should only be used by those who understand it. Persikov, the scientist who created the “red ray” which increased reproduction in amphibians, is the protagonist. When the news spreads of the “red ray”, it is confiscated to use at a farm to help with the chicken plague devastating the USSR. This results …show more content…
In this story, a group of men create robots that act, look and operate as a human does, and these robots eventually turn on humans and exterminate them. Morality is an important theme in this story, and arguably the only character who has proper morals is Helena. Helena believes that the robots should be treated better, and have rights, and recognizes them as sentient beings, whereas the creators look at the robots as servants and non-human. In their eyes if they created them, they cannot be human, and it does not matter how they are treated. If the creators had had morals they would have recognized that what they were doing was unjust, especially when they allowed the robots to be bought for the act of war. What this work shows, is that you cannot use science to better society, if you do not have proper morals or ethics …show more content…
Professor Dowell, is a scientist who worked on keeping people’s heads alive after their bodies had perished, and ultimately became a severed head due to his partner Kern. Kern then carries out experiments on two others, all the while keeping Dowell imprisioned and forced to live. Kern does all of this in the hope that the science works, and he can gain notoriety, and recognition for the science. The problem is that Kern continues his science at the cost of innocent people’s suffering. For example, Professor Dowell, although wanting the science to continue, wants to die in peace, but Kern continues to force him to help him, and controls when he can speak. As well, Bridget, one of the severed heads, is forced to be use as proof of the science and is paraded on stage on front of a crowd of people. Professor Dowell’s Head illustrates that you should not value science, over innocent people’s quality of
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