I don't think the plot is delayed, because self-awareness is generated slowly, and it moves forward slowly through constant questioning.
Although the play is a sci-fi setting, if you think about it, it is like medieval Europe, and there have been many rulers in human history that were maintained by lies. They were instilled with specific values and ideas from birth. , and then slowly some of them began to have self-awareness, began to think and act, there was a Renaissance in Europe, and there was a war of independence in the United States....
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