What does the film "Alien" say about the relationship between man and his creations?

I wonder why you are asking a begged question--you seem to have decided already what the film says. As a matter of fact, the HAL 9000 in 2001 was programmed to withhold information on the nature of the mission from the human crew--the computer has not betrayed anyone.

Sorry, this is a question for a class, I'm not the one who wrote it.

I don’t think the xenomorph was analogous to a machine in any way. So I think the assignment question is flawed.

I would start by looking at Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. That's pretty much where the conflict between man and his creation starts. Then look at the similarities with the book and the two films. You might want to look at the Terminator films as well.

Btw, the best xenomorphs are in Red Dwarf.

So? You're basically want us to do your homework for you?

They do have some sort of artificial human (android?) in the crew if I remember correctly.

As Alien and later, Aliens, are my favorite movies I feel obligated to step in here...
In Alien, the USCSS Nostromo is diverted to an alien signal (distress signal perhaps) from an unknown source. The main villain in this movie is not really the alien, but the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. Yes, the alien does kill everyone except Ripley, but it was the corporation that diverted the ship in search of profiting from an unknown signal.

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Ultimately, man is responsible for i's creations as they are programmed by man, and follow the rules programmed therein.

Yes, the original crew had an android on board posing as a human crew member. But the android wasn't the xenomorph.

The android in Alien is a villain in the sense that he tries to kill the human protagonist Ripley. Of course, he is only following his programming by the EVIL COMPANY.

In Aliens the android Bishop reveals himself to be a hero despite the continued sinister designs of the EVIL COMPANY

Two different directors explain why there is not a consistent theme concerning "man and his machine" in the two films. Scott is more cerebral than the ripping yarn spinner Cameron.

The next two films in the series are not, IMO, worthy of consideration.

In Prometheus, (IMO the best of the Alien films) you will find what you are looking for:

David the android and his deeds are the responsibility (ultimately) of his human creators.

The Xenomorph, on the other hand, is the responsibility of the alien race that, seemingly, engineered humanity and then decided to destroy it. Although biological, it is not less a "construction" than the human created androids.

We find, disappointingly IMO, in Alien Requiem that both constructs (machine and biological) combine to annihilate the race that gave birth to humanity. David is the engineer, the xenomorphs are his tools. The idea that the advanced aliens are destroyed by their own creations is not necessarily disappointing (although hackneyed) but the ease with which the annihilation takes place is not credible. After all, the pale-skinned giant in Prometheus at least wrestles with the creature that kills him.

After the first two films, the movies in this series suffer from a need to perpetuate their lucrative run.

Personally, I am rather tired of the "lone warrior woman defeats the last alien killer" plot feature of these films. I enjoy creative repetition in movies that take themselves less seriously (e.g. the Die Hard series) but the Alien series (directed by Scott) aspires to a loftier place.

Try actually watching the films and then coming to your own conclusions.

Disagree...

The xenomorph, although biological, was a deliberate construct just as the androids were, and both went beyond what their creators planned for them.

The answer your teacher wants is that man cannot control his creations.