Editing Golem (section)

==Theme of hubris==
[[File:Clay-golem.jpg|upright|thumb|A statue of the Prague Golem created for the film ''[[The Emperor and the Golem]]'']]

The existence of a golem is sometimes a mixed blessing. Golems are not intelligent; if commanded to perform a task, they will perform the instructions literally. In many depictions, golems are inherently perfectly obedient. In its earliest known modern form, the Golem of Chełm became enormous and uncooperative. In one version of this story, the rabbi had to resort to trickery to deactivate it, whereupon it crumbled upon its creator and crushed him.<ref name="Introduction" />

A similar theme of [[hubris]] is seen in ''[[Frankenstein]]'', ''[[The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]'', and some other stories in popular culture, such as ''[[The Terminator]]''. The theme manifests itself in ''[[R.U.R.]]'' (''Rossum's Universal Robots''), [[Karel Čapek]]'s 1921 play that coined the term [[robot]]. The play was written in Prague, and while Čapek denied that he modeled the robot after the golem, many similarities are seen in the plot.<ref>[[Voyen Koreis|Koreis, Voyen]]. Introduction. [https://books.google.com/books?id=UP-Ui34-M7UC&dq=Karel+%C4%8Capek+golem&pg=PA9 "Two Plays by Karel Capek: R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) & The Robber"]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204063423/https://books.google.com/books?id=UP-Ui34-M7UC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=Karel+%C4%8Capek+golem&source=bl&ots=2WLnFDNDEA&sig=xgQvJZYlT9nWVC5sqMWcjfPhhUU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjC-bb4-vLVAhXosFQKHbVyDngQ6AEIQjAE#v=onepage&q=Karel%20%C4%8Capek%20golem&f=false |date=4 February 2021 }} ''Google Books''. 25 August 2017.</ref>