Deus ex machina

This past weekend I went to view Southern Miss’s Trojan Barbie. This play was an amazing display of the range of talent in Southern Miss’s theatre department. As I stepped through the doors of Tatum Theatre, I was transported back to Ancient Troy. Along with the set, the preshow soundtrack made me excited for the play that I was about to see. When the lights dimmed and the play began, soldiers walked out from the vomitoriums and surrounded audience members. When the first solider yelled his line…

Ex machina is a film set in the isolated mountain home of the CEO of a massive internet search engine “bluebook” ,a young programmer named Caleb is brought in to test if the newly made A.I Ava would work in human society by using the turing test . Before everything there is the main conflict which should be man versus machine but that is not always the case ,when Caleb meets Nathan for the first time there conversation acts more like a psycho-analysis test then a normal conversation . It…

Furthermore, both plays kind of fits into the concept of comedy. It’s the classic scenario of a comedy where the villain is carried off to jail, the lovers get married and justice is served. However, there is no renewal in society because the blocking force itself is not renewed. In “Tartuffe”, Orgon is the blocking force who separates Mariane and Valère from being together. He says “Yes, Tartuffe shall be/Allied by marriage to this family/And he’s to be your husband is that clear? /It’s a…

beings regulate androids? Nevertheless, the title has already implied that there is no God. Ex Machina originates from the Greek theater phrase, Deus ex machina, which is a device aiming to solve the impasse in the plot. Deus means God and machina means machine. It is like God reaches out his hand, giving a help in order to make the story continue to be performed. And the name of this film took out the word, Deus, which clearly explain the writer’s vision. The consequence of artificial…

Ex machina is a film set in the isolated mountain home of the CEO of a massive internet search engine “bluebook” ,a young programmer named Caleb is brought in to test if the newly made A.I Ava would work in human society by using the turing test . Before everything there is the main conflict which should be man versus machine but that is not always the case ,when Caleb meets Nathan for the first time there conversation acts more like a psycho-analysis test then a normal conversation . It…

The climax, a scene of suspense where every major plot twist is reveal. Well-done climaxes make the audience genuinely watch every detail and Ex Machina is not an exception. In this particular scene from Alex Garland 2015 film Ex Machina, the music, characters and dialogue make the audience lean in their sits. The music is to true director of this film, it guide when the audience when to feel surprise (Kyoko stabbing Nathan), humiliate (Celeb finding he is the testing subject), and alarm (Ava…

The definition of deus ex machina is a resolution achieved through an utterly unexpected twist. The little mermaid’s fate entailed, “She looked once more at the prince, then threw herself down from the ship into the sea, and felt her body dissolving into foam” (Andersen 109).…

Norwegian born in 1828, Henrik Ibsen, the oldest of five children was living in poverty due to the business failures of his father. Ibsen showed great interest in painting and reading; in his teens began painting and writing poetry. At the age of twenty-one, Henrik Ibsen wrote his first play titled, Catilina. His first play was a drama, very much influenced by the style of Shakespeare. It did not receive much notice but did open the door for him to be hired as a writer and manager for the…

periods of time, each place is written only as a few paragraphs or a chapter in the book. However, El Dorado was the only location Voltaire writes more on to show the importance of the place and the impact it caused on Candide’s journey. The deus ex machina in this instance is that the reader doesn’t know much about what happened in each place, just that it happened. 13. Liebniz' idea of causality drives Voltaire's satire. In other words,…

Gandalf saves Thorin and company in the goblin caves. As written, ‘Suddenly, a sword flashed in its own light. Bilbo saw it go right through the Great Goblin as he stood dumbfounded in the middle of his rage’ (pg 61). This is also an example of a Deus ex Machina, as the wizard swoops in and saves the characters at the last minute. Second, is most of the times Thorin gets presented with his honorary title. He says, “‘Thorin, son of Thrain son of Thror, King Under the Mountain!’” (pg 181). Thorin…