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Both “The Machine that Won the War” and “The Interlopers” show irony but the stories contrast in a lot of ways. “The Machine that Won the War” shows Irony when all of the people all changed something that would affect the output of the Machine. “The Interlopers” shows Irony when the two people finally decide to stop conflict but then get lynched by wolves. In “The Machine that Won the War” there is Man vs Man, Man vs Supernatural, and Man vs Self; in “The Interlopers” there is Man vs Man, Man vs Nature, and Man vs Self. Both “The Machine that Won the War” and “The Interlopers” show Man vs Man and Man vs Self. In “The Interlopers” it shows Man vs Man when two groups are fighting over a “Disputed border- forest”(263, Saki) and shows Man vs Self

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