• kristina [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    :party-blob:

    btw in czech this is also a double meaning word. robot means what you think but it also means slave, forced labor. and the woman is saying that she would be anything for her lover, that she would toil in the kitchens. so its actually a critique of the traditional female role, basically requiring women to be unfeeling slaves to men. there is also the historical context of serfs being referred to by 'robota' by habsburg collaborating lords. so when she mentions frankenstein it also refers to the german oppression