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whom he had developed an unrequited infatuation with.
-> X express his feelings for her affectionately through aesthetic means.
"I could get more warmth out of a sack of CO2."
> Started with being completely clueless at the terms of love, girl, marry, poetry,etc,
EPICAC was now able to funnel such complex emotion into heart-tugging, beautiful words in the form of poetry.
By signing his name on the poems written by EPICAC, the narrative successfully won Pat over.
However, as the narrative mentioned to EPICAC about proposing to Pat,
the machine was annoyed by the fact that he should be the one marrying her because it was its poems that wooed Pat.
sarcasm
challenge the narrative WHO write better poetry or simply if
WHO is better?
Guilty and enraged,
lied about humans being made of indestructible protoplasm that outlasted any existing machines.
-> machines were built to serve men
-> fate of not being worthy of love.
The next morning,
the narrative was informed that EPICAC had committed suicide by short circuiting
EPICAC expressed his desire to become a man and be able to deserve Pat’s love.
1) Man vs Technology
2) Man vs Nature
3) woman vs self
“He”: connoting an actual human
- Poems: Individuality
- Protoplasm: X much difference between machines and humans.
- Death of EPICAC: unfairness of fate and destiny.
- The Brass: militarism
- Flashback (non chronological)
- Foreshadowing
- EPICAC: Dynamic, Rounded,
heroic protagonist
- the narrator: Dynamic, rounded
- Pat: dynamic, flat
First person view
- limited and consistent
- elicit greater responses from readers
- delivery of Vonnegut's messages effectively
- allows for in depth character development
What are the the story’s “science fiction” ingredients? What are its “fantasy” components?
- Place: Fourth floor of the physics building at Wyandotte College in USA
- Time: Not stated. story written in 1950 (COLD WAR)
- Atmosphere: lively, cold, melancholic, sentimental
- Fantasy:supermachine possessing human emotions: love, jealousy
- Ingredients: use of technology as the story’s fundamental conflict and plot
- exceeds current knowledge/capabilities.
-Unique setting: Great mechanization and warfares
1.) Based on evidence from the story, what message does Vonnegut send about individuality? Love?
- The significance of individualiy and the horrifying consequences that are to come if we do not nurture our individuality.
2) How does the author’s social, cultural, and political backstory impact/shape the text and the way the audience experiences the text?
- POW, survivor of The bombing of Dresden, cynical view
->want to express his fear of technology advancement, loss of individuality.
3) Is there an ironic “twist” at the conclusion?
- monitor of EPICAC yet the cause of EPICAC destruction
- machines are more humane than men
- Machines are built to serve men
- bounded by predetermined destiny
- EPICAC(machine) created to excel at computing yet underperform
- Narrator(human) emotionless, seemingly more mechanical than EPICAC
- Fate, destinied not worthy of love, display individuality throughout the story.