As I was reading “The Machine Stops” by E.M. Forster, I was completely awestruck because about halfway through the story, I flipped to the beginning to see if there was a copyright date because I had for some reason been assuming that he wrote it sometime in the 1950’s, but when he kept referring to [...]
“His image in the blue plate faded. ‘Kuno!’ He had isolated himself. For a moment Vashti felt lonely” (4). For a moment she felt lonely, and then she turned back to her buttons in her small, isolated room, and all was well again. Several elements of “The Machine Stops” fascinated me, one of which being [...]
I found the “The Machine Stops” so incredibly fascinating. As I was reading the story, I related to the characters to the point that I thought it was written in the 1990s, at the latest. The fact that the short story was first published over one hundred years ago (and perhaps written years before) is [...]
