Isolation In Faulkner's The Machine Stops

The second cause of isolation, in The Machine Stops, is the social isolation that comes as a result of the social and cultural isolation of the individual. Typically, the human has its special values, opinions, and self-conviction that do not mean any accepted reference or source of scientific or particular religious proof but it is the matter of private convictions rejecting these behaviors if it opposes his own freedom. But these are things in which the values, traditions and social norms were not working anymore in The Machine Stops: “the custom had become obsolete, owing to the Machine” (59). Because “people [are] almost exactly alike all over the world” (59). Thus, there are no differences among the form of social classes because the Machine causes absolute social justice. We can label this as inside isolation which has credibility accepted by the mind of Vashti and finds her conviction that comes up with permanent rejection to her son, Kuno says “I want to speak to you not through the wearisome

Social classes in a society divided into layers, each layer in order to resist the social and economic status. The review of the social classes has shown in the nineteenth century that class differences are the core source of conflict in society as a result of social injustice, for example, in the third world, the poor class is struggling to change the policies of the state, and then all the authority goes to rich people. Therefore, this form as a spatial isolation which is to enable social stability or to create a utopian society and create ethical, psychological and social barriers between the five classes and to prevent harmony with each other. While in The Machine Stops, it is called social isolation, we notice that it is no different from the social classes that lead to making justice among people and believe the machine is God, “You talk as if a god had made the Machine” (Forster