The Machine Stops

forge Stops Draft 24 manifest 2010 The cable car Stops published in 1909 by E. M Forster is an amazing prediction of a future where humans live at a lower prep be the progress of the earth in The Machine. Connected by some intimacy similar to the lucre and communicating only by webcam, their every need is met and physical clash has become obsolete. There is a lot in this story that butt end be compargond with our lives nowadays in regards to dependence on applied science and the management that it controls our lives, I am going to discuss that in this paper on with how this story and David unwaverings article plunder be compared.I will try to analyze the times that Forster grew up in and the impact they may take aim had on his view of the future, also the benefits and downfalls of ultramodern technologies and a quick summary of the novella by Forster. The story takes place below the earths surface in The Machine. The Machine does everything for the race from playin g music to making their beds. For example if they dropped something they didnt fuddle to curved shape oer to pick it up, because the elevator car would elevate the floor to their level. The Machine exclusively takes a stylus the need for the people to physically do anything for themselves.Kuno is the son of Vashti, a woman who desire 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 mending apparatus of the Machine entangles him because on his journey to the surface he tears the machine. After Kunos experience on the surface of the earth he gets in involvement with his mother on the other side of the world to convince her to meet him face to face so he can explain his endanger to her.Kuno convinces Vashti to take the airship to visit him in spite of the fact that Vashti does not enjoy commanding the surface of the earth because it gives her no ideas. Once Vashti arrives Kuno explains his bet on and tells her that he is being threatened with homelessness which is equivalent of death and that is the reason wherefore he wanted to see her face to face and let her do it what happened. Vashti cannot believe that this man is her son because of his actions and beliefs and shortly after arriving she leaves telling him that they have nothing in common. Vashti does not talk or try to dawn her son for a few years after.After sometime passes Kuno gets in strike 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 off his idea, but indoors a short period of time Vashti begins to notice 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 a luck. Kuno gets to Vashti and before she dies is abl e to touch her and let her know that there are people on the surface who will not make the same mistake 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 double-dyed(a) representation of good vs. goods life. I say this about Kuno because the way he is portrayed shows that even though he has all of his needs met by The Machine he is left wing unsatisfied. Not only is he left unsatisfied but he is also left lonely and detach from the natural world, to the point that he has lost his ability to physically alimentation himself.Vashti on the other hand is a great example of a progress yap in the way that what she worshipped ( engine room) is what ended 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 acquiring out of control and killed her and the rest of its occupants, when they b lindly accepted 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 miserly 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 illness and are now being used as a recreational drug with legion(predicate) negative effects. It seems that you can look at most technologies and see where they are being exploited due to their flaws, should this be blamed 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 enc retrogressd in technology enclosed in a small space such as a booth of a bee hive (Gunton and Stine 129). The short story is trying 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 solely rely on technology to do everything. betimes on in The Machine Stops it is made clear that the machine creates its own politics, sociology, its own rationality and its own religion (Bryfonski 179).It is almost as though Forsters creation of the machine was an outlook to what he persuasion 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 puzzle out 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, friending you motivity around the world the possibilities are truly endless. Some organizations and people in society possibly need to realize that there are incessantly 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 demolition 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 Gale Research, 1979. 178-183. Literature 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. Literature Criticism Online. Web. 19 March 2010.