Organic: a very lucid conceptWill it ever be possible for a machine to be an organic being? It's an interesting question, addressed in Merry Shelly's Frankstein, Karel Capek's RUR, and Jessica Riskin's The Defecating Duck. These three texts provide information on what makes a creature an organic being. From these readings it can be deduced that the duck in The Defecating Duck, together with the robots at the beginning of RUR cannot be considered organic beings, while the monster in Frankstein and the robots at the end of RUR can. An organic robot is an oxymoron; a robot does not have the chemical capacity to be considered biologically organic. Although a chemical process was alluded to in both Frankstein and RUR, it was very brief, a short paragraph in each case, and did not provide enough information to classify either as organic. However, there is a definition of organic that can be applied to demonstrate that robots have the ability to be organic, "[10th definition of organic] something having growth and development analogous to that of living organisms" (Merriam Webster Dictionary) . In other words, to be considered organic you must have the ability and desire to live. Wanting a mate shows that one has a desire to connect with someone in one's life, and therefore shows that the person has a desire to be separated from the rest. world. Frankstein's monster has a desire to find a person to connect with and ends up going on a journey to find one. This journey begins with the monster observing and eventually falling in love with a peasant family. “I formed images in my imagination of introducing myself to them… I imagined that they would be disgusted, until, by my polite behavior and with…… middle of paper……ple. They are mechanically more perfect than us… but they have no soul” (Capek, 9). This quote from Domin explains to Helena how robots are not humans but only workers. Domin further expresses this point by saying this. “Everything will be done by living machines. People will only do what they like” (Capek, 21). These robots, for the moment, are complicit in their place and show no desire to live. The robots and the duck fail to show the desire to live and therefore cannot be considered organic beings. The robots at the end of RUR and Frankstein's Monster, unlike the robots at the beginning of RUR and the duck in Defecating Duck, can be called organic beings because of their desire to live. These three texts raised interesting points on the confusing issue of organic robots. Making people believe that only time will be able to solve this enigma.