Machine Stops

This ability to be overwhelmed by something as little as the stars shows how easy it is for an android to have their emotions overpower their thoughts, let alone 4F6, who has the ability to feel more emotion than any other android. Therefore when 4F6 is flooded with emotion, after the baby robot is born, she becomes inundated and it clouds her judgement of how to properly handle the situation, resulting in irrational actions. While being overrun by thought, she begins to feel uncertain of what to do and who to turn to for help.

A parent will never know what goes on in the mind of their child, all a parent can do is shield the child from the negatives of life and hope negativity never enters their mind. Author Bruno Bettelheim wrote The Uses of Enchantment, published in 1976, the book contains an essay called “Fairy Tales and the Existential Predicament,” in which Bettelheim presents a psychological perspective of the impact that traditional fairy tales have on children. Bettelheim begins his essay with personal knowledge, rhetorical appeals (pathos and, logos) and textual evidence. In his essay, Bettelheim sets the stage by reaching out to to his audience, he writes “overcoming narcissistic disappointments, oedipal dilemmas, sibling rivalries; becoming able to relinquish

The topic of spirituality, divinity and otherworldly phenomena is quite common in medieval literature and there is a multitude of contexts, in which these topics are addressed. The protagonists of those texts find themselves in a balancing act between the secular world and a supernatural world, where they need to overcome struggles to master the difficulties of their worlds’ dualisms. Be it an otherworld of fairies or the christian hereafter, those worlds and the mundane conducts often influence each other reciprocally in the stories of medieval literature.

There will always be philosophical interpretations that will create universal truths for many generations to come. In addition, these literary works enriches the audiences’ understanding of these texts as supremely important cultural and historical documents, for audiences who embrace their universal truths. Both generational audiences’ spiritual interpretations seemed to have, collectively, developed a text of extraordinary literary works that are overflowing with philosophical and truth-seeking richness.

When examining various cultural myths, one archetype keeps repeating—the image of the quest. This archetype functions with various different mythologies as a method of learning about the world, both its external features and what is inside the self. The quest comes from ancient origins and is found in Classical Western culture, but has been fine tuned through the generations. In its most modern interpretations, there are continuing elements of the age old myth, where extenuating circumstances or hubris, place the hero in turmoil and needing to find an answer. Having additional sexual charges, it is clear that through the quest, adulthood is not only reached but embraced. This answer represents a completeness of being,

In The Machine Stops, E.M. Forster projects life years from now where people live underground with extreme technological advances. Also, people live separated in little rooms where they find a variety of buttons they can press in order to perform any task they desire. They do not communicate with people face to face as often as we do now. Without a doubt, their society is very different from ours. All of the inhabitants are used to living along with the Machine and it is hard for them to imagine life without everything the Machine is able to facilitate. People are so caught up with technology that they find it absurd to spend time in nature. Because of the dependence people have towards the Machine, they have somewhat lost their humanity

The “hero’s journey”, coined by Joseph Campbell, is a pattern in the plot structure of literature, myths, and oral tradition in which the hero is consistently faced with similar obstacles and achieves many of the same goals. The first part of the hero’s journey is “The Call.” The hero is usually living a very comfortable and easy life, unaware of the journey ahead. The hero is then faced with a situation or dilemma which eventually causes them to seek change. The hero, at this point, tends to refuse the call to adventure in fear of the unknown. Once the hero has been given the strength to push past the unknown, they have entered the threshold. The hero will experience many challenges and temptations where the hero is tested, eventually reaching “The Abyss,” the most difficult challenge. The hero is then transformed by these trials and returns home to every-day life and begins to contribute to their society. The novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, the protagonist, Janie, experiences the hero’s journey first-hand through overcoming obstacles and transforming herself. In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, the heroine Janie overcomes many obstacles and is therefore transformed into a self reliant woman.

“You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.”

In his book One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey compares the patients of the mental hospital to machines in order to illustrate the absence of humanity they face in their treatments. Kesey, through the narrator, compares the patients quite literally to machines when he says, “most of us - are machines with flaws inside that can’t be repaired” (16). The language of this quotes plainly connects the patients to broken machines, and in doing so, removes their humanity. In particular, the patients having “flaws inside that can’t be repaired” implies that their individual illnesses and daily struggles are faults of their own, and do not require specialized care. This comparison drawn between patients and machines reveals the root of the

Our parents raise us hoping for us to develop certain character traits, but there comes to a point when we start to become our own person based on the experiences we go through, any situation, good or bad, can influence our personality mentally and emotionally. Emotion is what makes us human, it's how we cope and how we manage our crazy lives’. When our feelings get damaged or even nourished, it will change how we react

The hospital represents one core of this machine. Closed off from the rest of society, the hospital acts as a micro-manager of health by turning non-functioning bodies into productive workers once more. In this instance, the hospital acts both as an enclosed space for the ill, and as a functional site for reproducing capitalism

But beyond making the families dependent on the machine and its masters for food, the machine has also forced the men to rely upon the machine for their sense of purpose. Without the sound of the factory and the schedule of maintaining the train, the men feel a temporary emptiness.

A clock has a life span like a human; eventually they both break down and their time stops. Born with expiration dates the human mind eventually will run out of time. William Faulkner presents the concept of time and its effect on the human condition in his short story “A Rose for Emily”. His main character Emily is left alone when the only man, her father, who controlled her world dies. Unable to accept the fact of his death Emily undergoes a state of depression, which shields herself from society and makes her unable to face reality. William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” reveals the terrible consequences when humans attempt to make time stand still.

‘The Time Machine’ has many characters but none so profound as ‘The Time Traveller’. ‘The Time Traveller’ is a smart, intellectual upper-class man of his time, with smart friends as well. He’s also an amazingly bright scientist, which is what pushed him further to make his time machine. The world to which the ‘Time Traveller’ visits in his long journey through time is described as a ‘Dystopia’. A ‘Dystopia’ is best defined as the complete opposite of a ‘Utopia’.

In this essay, I will be comparing the importance of knowledge in terms of power in The Tempest and Paradise Lost. Adam and Eve are the main characters I will focus on in Paradise Lost, and the main character in The Tempest will be Prospero. During the English Renaissance, knowledge was becoming easier to obtain, and the literature became concerned with telling people about the possible unforeseen dangers of certain types of knowledge. In The Tempest and Paradise Lost, knowledge becomes more important than anything else to the main characters of each story. Also, these two literary works help reinforce the idea that the pursuit of knowledge can have devastating effects. Consequently, both stories end with Adam and Eve of Paradise Lost and Prospero of The Tempest being left to deal with the consequences of their actions.