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What Science Fiction themes are present in E.M Forster’s short story The Machine Stops? Give evidence from the text to support your answer
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Science Fiction The Machine Stops by E.M Forster (1909) Yr 10 coursework essay Pre 1914 What Science Fiction themes are present in E.M Forster's short story The Machine Stops? Give evidence from the text to support your answer Introduction The Machine Stops includes a lot of essentials that are found in many science fiction stories, novels, etc. For example the creation of an alternative world. This can also be seen in films like The Matrix. Creation of an alternative world The world that has been created in The Machine Stops is an underground world. The entire world is controlled by the machine. Everyone and everything is controlled and restricted by this machine. People live in this machine governed world because they are led to believe that the air on the earth's surface is toxic, this is infact a lie. Everyone lives in their own cell. We are told that they live in a hexagonal shape...
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