The Machine Stops

mechanism Stops draftsmanship 24 March 2010 The Machine Stops published in 1909 by E. M Forster is an amazing prediction of a future where reality live below the sur look of the earth in The Machine. Connected by something similar to the internet and communicating provided by webcam, their e genuinely occupy is met and physical contact has become obso allowe. There is a lot in this story that sack up be compared with our lives now in regards to dependence on engineering and the way that it controls our lives, I am going to discuss that in this paper along with how this story and David Strongs article git be compared.I will try to analyze the times that Forster grew up in and the impact they may pee had on his raft of the future, also the benefits and downf entirelys of advanced(a) technologies and a quick summary of the novella by Forster. The story takes place below the earths surface in The Machine. The Machine does e rattlingthing for the populate from playing music to making their beds. For example if they dropped something they didnt invite to bend over to pick it up, because the implement would elevate the underprice to their level. The Machine completely takes away the need for the populate to physically do anything for themselves.Kuno is the son of Vashti, a woman who like the others worships the Machine. Kuno questions the machine and takes it upon himself to leave the machine without permission to go to the surface of the earth to explore. Once Kuno reaches the surface the altering apparatus of the Machine entangles him because on his journey to the surface he bust the machine. later Kunos experience on the surface of the earth he gets in contact with his mother on the other side of the institution to convince her to visit him face to face so he can explain his adventure to her.Kuno convinces Vashti to take the airship to visit him in breach of the fact that Vashti does non enjoy go toing the surface of the earth because it give s her no ideas. Once Vashti arrives Kuno explains his adventure and tells her that he is being threatened with homelessness which is equivalent of closing and that is the reason why he wanted to see her face to face and let her know what happened. Vashti cannot believe that this man is her son because of his actions and beliefs and nearsightedly after arriving she leaves telling him that they possess nothing in common. Vashti does not talk or try to contact her son for a few years after.After sometime passes Kuno gets in touch with his mother and tells her that The Machine stops, and he believes the Machine is beginning to shut down. Kunos mother finds this quite funny and blows clear up his idea, yet within a short period of time Vashti begins to lineup that things are not working properly. Starting with Vashti noticing the sleeping apparatus was no longer working properly. The machine begins shutting down and falling apart. Kuno gets to Vashti and in the first place she die s is able to touch her and let her know that in that respect are people on the surface who will not make the same drift of letting something like the machine happen again.The way that I see this story and David Strongs article coming together is very clear, Kuno and Vashti are the perfect representation of good vs. goods tone. I say this nearly Kuno because the way he is portrayed shows that even though he has all of his needs met by The Machine he is remaining unsatisfied. Not only is he left unsatisfied but he is also left lonely and detached from the natural world, to the point that he has lost his competency to physically support himself.Vashti on the other hand is a considerable example of a progress trap in the way that what she idolise ( applied science) is what terminate up killing her. The reason I compare her with a progress trap is because she was brought up in the machine it was all she knew and it ended up getting out of control and killed her and the rest of i ts occupants, when they blindly authoritative it as a good thing not expecting faults. E. M Forsters story the Machine stops is an unbelievably accurate prediction of modern times for when it was published. The technologies Forster creates we see now and also some of the problems.The dependence we have on technology now is to the point where it is questionable if some people could survive without electricity, what does this mean to our societies? Not to say that technology is completely a bad thing but if you look at medicine as an example painkillers began as a treatment for people with severe unhealthiness and are now being apply as a amateur drug with many negative effects. It seems that you can look at to the highest degree technologies and see where they are being exploited due to their flaws, should this be infernal on the technologies or us as the users and inventers of them. E. M.Forster asks his readers to imagine a life in which they are completely surrounded and encl osed in technology enclosed in a small space such as a cell of a bee hive (Gunton and Stine 129). The short story is try to illustrate what could possibly come from a society perfected by technology (Bryfonski 179). Although technologies do make our lives simpler in many ways we cannot let them take over our lives, and we should not but rely on technology to do everything. Early on in The Machine Stops it is do clear that the machine creates its own politics, sociology, its own rationality and its own righteousness (Bryfonski 179).It is almost as though Forsters creation of the machine was an medical prognosis to what he thought technology could easily become The characters in the short story have allowed the machine to deaden their senses and to dehumanize their emotions (Gunton and Stine 129). The characters do not know how to function by themselves anymore because the Machine allows them to not have to think or care, it takes care of that for the humans. If we let technology do everything for us we will lose our own ability to think for ourselves.Although technology is a significant part of everyday life for the average person and it is used to simplify life, it can become overwhelming. Technology, if used wisely can have enormous benefits staying in contact with old friends and family, saving someones life, helping you travel around the world the possibilities are truly endless. many organizations and people in society possibly need to realize that there are always two sides to everything and, that yes technologies are created to help us but if we use the technologies improperly the same technological world could destroy us that is trying to help us.The idea of E. M. Forsters The Machine Stops illustrates very well the destruction that could be created if humans begin to rely solely on technology in a maybe not so dramatic way after all. Works Cited E. M. Forster (1879-1970). Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Dedria Bryfonski. Vol. 10. Detroit Ga le Research, 1979. 178-183. literary productions Criticism Online. Web. 19 March 2010. E. M. Forster (1879-1970). Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed. Sharon R. Gunton and Jean C. Stine. Vol. 22. Detroit Gale Research, 1982. 129-138. publications Criticism Online. Web. 19 March 2010.