How we cite our quotes: (Act.Paragraph)
Quote #7
O mother of us all, you don't bless a single heart smitten with love. There is no love. O Helena, Helena. (3.4)
This is Alquist in one of his whining soliloquies at the end of the play. Here he almost seems to be praying to Helena as a kind of goddess of love. And she is sort of a goddess of love; it's she who made Gall give the robots the power to love, we suppose. Still, Alquist is irritating.
Quote #8
Let me look at you! Helena! You're called Helena?—I can't call you that. Go, take the water away. (3.128)
Robot Helena reminds Alquist of his love for Helena. Robot Helena is only an image of a woman though. But then, Helena, too, is made up; she's also the image of a woman. And she really is just an image—she never exactly feels real. She's just someone there to love and to perform the role of "woman" for all the supervisors. Helena is a kind of Robot Helena all along; a machine to generate love.