A main difference between RUR and Frankenstein I feel, is that the production of the robots is by several people and they are mass produced, where as the creature is only created by Victor and there is only one. Also the Technophilia aspect is consistent in Domin throughout the whole novel, even when the robots are about to kill him he still believes it was good idea to make them and that he did the right thing. It is characters such as Helena, Nana, and Alquist who adopt a sense of technophobia and realize that creating the robots was a horrible thing for all of mankind. In Frankenstein it follows a different pattern of Victor being enthusiastically technophiliac and then becoming extremely technophobic and regretting what he has done. Victor also chases after his creature and they both hate each other. In RUR humans have come to depend on the robots completely and the creators do not really hate the robots but have a strange affection for their creation and the dreams they hope to achieve through them. Even when the robots attack and kill all of mankind the most of the engineers at RUR feel that the robots could have really benefitted mankind, something just went wrong. It is unclear whether Victor had grand dreams of benefitting mankind when he started, but from the time the creature was created he hated his creation and knew it was a huge mistake that could never help mankind, only hurt it. Frankenstein seems to take a little more direct approach in speaking against the evils of technology, while RUR is a little more satirical and comedic. They destroy the human race with blind ambition and feel hardly any remorse in the end, or so it would seem, besides of course Helena and Alquist.
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