The author specifically capitalizes the M in Machine. There are also a lot of references that they see the machine as a type of God. I soon realized that the Machine actually referred to the whole mechanical system that pretty much ran their entire society. Now at 1 st I thought that the Machine simply referred to Vashti’s house in which everything was mechanized. Now throughout the story, this thing named “the Machine” is constantly being referred to.

To me this does not seem like a utopian society. I just imagine a letdown person slowly move their chair over the door and kind of emotionlessly answer it. Now back to the depressing vibe I get from the imagery, when the protagonist Vashti hears the doorbell ring, she says this in response “I suppose I must see who it is” (Forster, 1). That’s how I imagine this world to be like. The color scheme is very bland and not a lot of vibrant colors. When the main character in the game steps out onto the earth for the 1 st time, everything is like a desert with not a lot of plant life to be seen and a lot of destroyed buildings and towns. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic society where people are trapped in “vaults” and can never step into the outside world due to radiation. I imagine the opening scene as something out of a popular video game series called “Fallout”. In this short story things seem a lot more depressing. With a utopian society you image everyone happy and life is very simple and all is well. I did not see it as your typical utopian society though. If I'm right, Forster was probably being ironic or semi-ironic by describing this as one of Wells' 'heavens', since the future society in When the Sleeper Wakes is not exactly a utopia.In E.M Forster’s “The Machine Stops” introduces a utopian type society. The tenant of the apartment could connect this with the cables of any of the great News Syndicates that he preferred. So far as the more prosperous classes were concerned, in all the more comfortable private apartments of the city were fixed Babble Machines that would speak directly a lever was pulled. When the Sleeper Wakes features devices called Babble Machines, which are used to spread propaganda and subdue the population: Wells' work may have a more definite answer, but my suspicion is that it might have been When the Sleeper Wakes, a story originally published in 1898-99 and republished in a revised form as The Sleeper Awakes in 1910. 'The Machine Stops' was published in 1909, which gives a later limit as to which of Wells' stories or novels he could have been responding to. In the introduction to his Collected Short Stories, Forster said 'The Machine Stops' wasĪ reaction to one of the earlier heavens of H.

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