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What do you find particularly horrifying about the world Forster creates in
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What do you find particularly horrifying about the world Forster creates in "The Machine Stops"? In "The Machine Stops" Forster creates a world set in the future, where machines rule. In fact, machines run life so much so that human beings, by this time, have adapted accordingly to life and the lifestyle it brings. "In the arm-chair there sits a swaddled lump of flesh - a woman, about five feet high, with a face as white as a fungus," Forster writes. This is a pretty horrific description because it shows us that in the world Forster has created, people get no exercise whatsoever. There is in fact no need to get any exercise with the life the humans lead under the control of The Machine. "Infants [are] examined at birth, and all who [promise] to endue strength [are] destroyed...it would [be] no true kindness to let an athlete live; he...
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