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Dystopian Fiction: The Machine Stops

8 Pages 1920 Words April 2019

a prison cell. She is confined to her room just like a prisoner behind bars, unaware of the world outside and devoid of human interaction. Vashti also keeps an “isolation knob” in her room to avoid any form unnecessary communication. However, this seems ironic because she uses this tool for solitude, when she’s already so disconnected by living in a six-walled cell in the vast Machine. It is also ironic because she uses it while talking to her son, Kuno, through the monitor. She tells him, “Very well. Let us talk, I will isolate myself.” (Forster 1). Despite all her efforts to isolate herself to talk to Kuno, she is unable to give him her undivided attention. In the process of isolating herself from people, it seems as though she has in fact ended up blocking herself off from her own son. Through their conversation it is evident that she doesn’t give him the importance and care a mother gives her son. For instance, when he asks her to visit him, she rejects the invitation by saying that can see him through the screen, so there’s no need for her to travel to the opposite side of the earth to see him. This shows that the only real connection she shares with him is through a monitor. In Vashti’s world, the importance of physicality has been lost to the system of mechanization. Thus, although advancement of technology has made communication with others from far away very easy, humans’ misusage a...

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