Posthumanist Perspectives on Motherhood: Exploring Interspecies Care through Novel and Film – The Wild Robot by Peter Brown

Posthumanism is way of thinking that moves beyond the idea that humans are important or central beings of the world. Instead of seeing animals, machines and nature, posthumanism recognizes that all living and nonliving things are connected and interdependent. This paper examines The Wild Robot movie through the lens of posthumanist theory, analyzing how the film challenges conventional boundaries between humans, animals and machines. By illustrating the robot Roz itself as mother of a bird. The movie depicts even a robot could have the motherly affection and caring relationship, drawing on frameworks of posthuman ethics and feminist care ethics. This study highlights how Roz’s transformation exemplifies a redefinition of moral subjectivity beyond human. There are some other films that depicts posthumanism like Avatar (2009). But this movie is contemporary contribution to posthumanist discourse by envisioning a future wherein artificial intelligence beings participate fully in ethical and social networks. Roz undergoes an ethical transformation that redefines motherhood and assimilates in AI narratives by embodying posthuman ideas of emotional connection, ecological care, and nonbiological relationship. Through Roz motherly assimilations are carried throughout the movie to bring out posthumanism in human made Robot.