Asimov Reading Response

Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov is a short story in which a robot named Elvex has dreams of ruling over other robots and he is a real man. In the end he is punished for free thinking by the destroying of his positronic brain. Similar to this in 1984 Winston Smith is a member of a conformist party. He thinks for himself in the longing for something better, as in the downfall of the party. Once the party figures this out he is brought in for questioning and torture. Throughout this his entire way of thinking is changed and he believes in the ways of the party. In both of these pieces of literature a minority of the working class have thoughts of overpowering the higher power and become themselves the higher power. Despite the main ideas of the two pieces in Robot Dreams Elvex dreams of himself taking on the strong human characteristics of knowledge and power, and most importantly the human form, while the beings he rules take all the weak characteristics such as the physical weakness of human and the form of a robot. In1984 Winston just wants to overthrow the current party in power but not necessarily become what they once were.

I believe that if George Orwell and Isaac Asimov were to meet they would agree on the main ideas of what they are trying to say but not on the details as their books take different paths into the future, such as Asimov's Robots and Orwell's Big Brother. I believe this because of how their stories differ and are similar.