Aura in Plays and Children's Movies

           Another example comes from a children’s movie, Pokemon: The First Movie. Although it is a children’s movie it explores the concepts of cloning, and what makes a clone different from its original. The main antagonist is a clone of a Pokemon who is trying to find his place in the world. He has been tying his worth to the fact that he is a clone, and that he cannot rise above that. So instead he decides to clone other Pokemon and create his own paradise made solely out of clones. By the actions of the protagonists he learns that his worth comes from his own actions, and not from the fact that he is a clone.

 So the villain learns that the way the world sees him, his aura, is not dependent on his origin as a clone but on his actions. He learns that his creations, even though they are copies of other Pokemon are also not defined by being clones. Each of them may not be the original, and may not have the aura associated with that, but they have their own auras created by the fact that despite being clones they have decided to move forward with their lives. The villain ends with the quote “I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are” (Pokemon: The First Movie).

In the play R.U.R. the same thing happens. Robots in R.U.R. are biological creatures which are created to perform certain functions. The robots are created to fulfill certain functions and are put to work immediately after being made in order to give them something with which to fill their minds. After the robot revolution the robots begin to develop their own personalities. Two of the robots, Primus and Helena, even fall in love. They are even referred to as the new Adam and Eve. So these robots rise above what they were and through their actions and experiences develop into something more than they were

The robots were created with a certain aura. The aura they had was one of a mass produced worker created to do only a certain task. To this end they are described in the beginning as slightly mechanical in their movement, and having blank expressions. By the end they are displaying emotions like anger and love. Their aura has grown to encompass these new facets of their personalities and show the new emotional and spiritual depth obtained by the robots. Even though they are not originals each robot creates its own original aura. In the end two of the robots have created an aura that reminds a human of the biblical Adam and Eve, when before that human did not see robots as living creatures.