![]() 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. In E.M Forster’s “The Machine Stops” introduces a utopian type society. ![]()
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