Anyone know what 'deus ex machina' means?

"A deus ex machina (IPA: [藞de瑟蕦s 蓻ks 藞mak拾瑟na], literally "god from the machine") is a plot device in which a surprising or unexpected event occurs in a story's plot, often to resolve flaws or tie up loose ends in the narrative."Anyone know what 'deus ex machina' means?
God of the machine.
God as machine. It's latin, but it is the name of a literary technique.Anyone know what 'deus ex machina' means?
it means "god from the machine"



heres a page about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina







hope this helps.
鈥搉oun 1. (in ancient Greek and Roman drama) a god introduced into a play to resolve the entanglements of the plot.

2. any artificial or improbable device resolving the difficulties of a plot.Anyone know what 'deus ex machina' means?
It means "God From the Machine"
It means "God of the Machine".



It's a literary device in which something out of the blue happens to aid the protagonist.



Kind of like the germs in War of the Worlds. It also happens in almost every Harry Potter book.
A deus ex machina (IPA: [藞de瑟蕦s 蓻ks 藞mak拾瑟na], literally "god from the machine") is a plot device in which a surprising or unexpected event occurs in a story's plot, often to resolve flaws or tie up loose ends in the narrative.[1] Neoclassical literary criticism, from Corneille and John Dennis on, took it as a given that one mark of a bad play was the sudden invocation of extraordinary circumstance. Thus, the term "deus ex machina" has come to mean any inferior plot device that expeditiously solves the conflict of a narrative
I would have said God in the machine, a black box, the answer to everything or something, but without explanation. Like gravity is just a word to explain what we don't really know what it is. Gravity is God in the machine that makes everything work. The magic that holds things together. God is the explanation of how all was made, without an explanation of how it was done. Webster's says a god from a machine, therefore any person or thing artificially introduced, as in a story, to solve a difficulty.
"God of the machine" it's a literary device that a writer would use to take a sort of 'divine intervention' to "fix" the plot to the desired ending.



Person A sacrifices themselves to save the life of person B; but the God intervenes and ressurects person A so that there will be a happy ending.
It means god of the machine - and it references the timely (and often unlikely) resolution of conflict by a powerful outside agent.

The name comes from the theater - in old plays, the complications of the plot would be resolved by the arrival of a god character - typically Greek or Roman - to set things straight at a strategic moment just before the end of the play. The god character was transported onto the stage by a machine or mechanical device that allowed him to appear to descend from the heavens - making him the god of the machine.
It means a god out of a machine.



It really designates an actor getting out of a device in a theater, at the end of the play. This actor plays a god who is going to save the situation (or the plot) at the end of the play.



This god accomplishes a miracle for the plot to come to a denouement.

so the expression is not equal to a miracle.



We all wish for a god ex machina when we are in a hard situation.
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