Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) evokes many of the same issues about human responsibility as does R. U.R. This novel also deals with questions about the future of humanity and asks serious questions about man's humanity to man.
Prometheus Bound, written by Aeschylus in the fifth century B.C., is an example from classical literature that explores how man deals with fate and with man's inhumanity toward man.
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