Deus+ex+Machina

//__Deus ex Machina __//



a person or thing in a fiction or drama that is introduced suddenly that decide the outcome or solution to a seemingly hopeless situation
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 * Origin:: T **ranslation of Greek //theos ek mēkhanēs//, 'god from the machinery.' In Greek dramas, actors playing gods would suspended from above the stage and would resolve the situation.


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Definition taken from Merriam-Webster Dictionary (m-w.com)


 * Examples ** from text:

1) From //Story of an Hour// by Kate Chopin "Some one was opening the front door with a latchkey. It was Brently Mallard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his grip-sack and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of the accident, and did non even know there had been one. He stood amazed at Josephine's piercing cry; at Richards' quick motion to screen him form the view of his wife. When the doctors came they said she had died of heard disease--of the joy that kills."

2) From //Litte Red-Cap// by The Brother's Grimm Household Tales When the wolf had appeased his appetite, he lay down again in the bed, fell asleep and began to snore very loud. The huntsman was just passing the house, and thought to himself, “How the old woman is snoring! I must just see if she wants anything.” Sohe went into the room, and when he came to the bed, he saw that the wolf was lying in it. “Do I find thee here, thou old sinner!” said he. “I have long sought thee!” Then just as he was going to fire at him, it occurred to him that the wolf might have devoured the grandmother, and that she might still be saved, so he did not fire, but took a pair of scissors, and began to cut open the stomach of the sleeping wolf. When he had made two snips, he saw the little Red-Cap shining, and then he made two snips more, and the little girl sprang out, crying, “Ah, how frightened I have been! How dark it was inside the wolf;” and after that the aged grandmother came out alive also, but scarcely able to breathe.

3) From Bisclavret In order to get rid of his animal form, put on his clothes in from of you; you don't understand what this means: he's just too ashamed to do it here. Have him led to your chambers and being the **clothes** with him; then we'll leave him alone for a while. If he turned into a man, we'll know about it." The king himself led the way and closed all the doors on him. After a while he went back, taking two barons with him; all three entered the king's chamber. On the kind's royal bed they found the knight asleep.

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