“Every act of creation is first and foremost an act of destruction.” These famous words by painter Pablo Picasso prove true in the infamous Jewish myth, The Golem: How He Came into the World (The Golem), and in Karl Capek's work, Rossum's Universal Robots (RUR). Throughout history, many people have attempted to play the role of God, through acts such as cloning in the 1990s or simply calling themselves God, as was the practice in ancient Egyptian societies. However, man rarely succeeded in his game, until the arrival of the infamous Prague golem and the RUR robots. In the stories, two elders and their communities discover the consequences of creation when they bring clay and machines to life. Both tales detail the conception and destruction of artificial beings, the golem and the robot, respectively. Although the lives of golems and robots follow a similar path, the reasoning behind the creation, use, and destruction of both are radically different. For starters, both the golem in The Golem and the robots in RUR were fashioned from material and supernatural elements. . In The Golem, Rabbi Low literally molds a large amount of clay into a man. He also proceeds to call upon the spirit of Astaroth to help him bring the golem back to life. After a series of rituals and the placement of the Shem Amulet in the golem's chest, Rabbi Low finally gives life. Likewise, robots also have physical and mystical components to their training. So, even if an android was initially processed by a factory, over time it would develop emotional and destructive traits. Dr. Gall had experimented with how to give sensations to machines, but he could never have imagined that robots would be granted a literal soul, something that Dr. Gall or any scientist could never... middle of paper.. . of violence in The Golem and RUR, both parables ended on relatively positive notes, with the golem smelling the roses and playing with the children, with many robots passionately declaring their love for each other. Despite the large number of similarities between the golem and androids, both were produced by their masters for different reasons: Rabbi Low seeks to demonstrate God's wrath, and Old Rossum seeks to demonstrate his absence. The beings are also used by their creators for several reasons: the golem to protect; robots simply to serve and help. And when the creations finally rise again to ruin their masters, they again have different motivations behind their actions, with the golem simply destroying because it was pre-programmed to do so, and the robots due to their humanization. In total, The Golem and RUR demonstrate the lethal consequences of creation.