Midterm Project Idea

Theme:

Overwork. Or rather, working to the point of exhaustion and how even then, the next job is always waiting leading to a "burn-out".

Story:
Beginning in a manufacturing plant, workers have constructed a large Construct Creature, which is brought to life and ordered to go out and rebuild buildings. The creature goes out to the city and begins to knock over buildings and reconstructing them larger and better (subjective). It continues to knock over and rebuild buildings, developing certain deformities and ticks as it progresses without respite. It eventually stops after knocking over a building, and topples, breaking apart. Workers gather around and look at the broken Creature, before using the remains of the creature to construct the buildings it was going to renovate.
Alternate ending consists of them just literally building on top of the dead creature. Either way works though the message of building off the backs of the worker becomes more literal in the second idea.

Characters:
The Construct:
The character is a construct which is devoid of emotion and mostly devoid of personality. It has a single desire, which is to build. A small figure, which exerts its dominance over the creature, points in the direction of the buildings to reconstruct. It doesn’t know why it rebuilds these structures, but it continues to work. As soon as it finishes one job, it immediately seeks to regain its purpose by shuffling to the next building. It never takes time for itself, as the next job is always waiting just a few feet away, and thus it begins to fall apart.
*built in order to build, and that is all it desires to do
*emotionless and doesn’t feel pleasure, mearly seeks to get the job done, but a new job always waits right next to it
*never questions, merely follows the orders given to it