In today’s world, science and technology shows a different picture in each new day with high-speed development. Now, human beings are going through a technological revolution influencing the whole world, various kinds of cutting-edge technologies springing out such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data and robot-related technology. They are deeply influencing and changing people’s life in every way. Currently, intelligent robots with extraordinary learning capacity have begun to assist even replace human in some fields and they sometimes show a better performance than human do. The narrowing distance between human beings and intelligent robots has evoked terrors in some people’s mind: since that intelligent robots are able to play the role of mankind in some fields gradually, whether does that mean the distinction of human beings and robots is gradually becoming unclear and blurred? In this way, what makes human beings? And in the face of intelligent technology, where does human’s future go? For those questions, many writers have touched them in their works and have also given their own understandings. This paper, by examining two novels, one Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and the other The Song of Life by Wang Jinkang, targets to examine the identity anxiety of human beings facing the appearance of new “life” forms for the advancement of science and technology. However, in this situation human beings are not lost in pessimism, and on the contrary they are constantly searching for the ways to get along with the science and technology. 

Fu Jing. Human Beings and Technology: Identity Anxiety and Its Settlement——A Comparative Study of Frankenstein and the Song of Life. Frontiers in Art Research (2022) Vol. 4, Issue 10: 73-77. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2022.041015.

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