Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Can someone explain what "Deus ex Machina" means?

I've looked it up on google.

but i still don't understand. :/Can someone explain what "Deus ex Machina" means?
Means "God out of a Machine" and generally in old stories it signifies divine intervention when a hero is saved by some divinity when in perilCan someone explain what "Deus ex Machina" means?
"Deus ex machina" literally means God from a machine in Latin. It is usually used in connection with theatre, but can apply to film, books and even life.



It started in Greek theatre, with a plot that may have seemed like it was going one way, until a god stepped in and fixed everything. These plays to which the original term applied actually had seemingly doomed characters, when a god "suddenly" appeared (possibly from above with pulley and lever system) and made the situation positive. Hence the term, "God from a machine" or "Deus ex machina."



Now a days, this term usually applies to a bad script or story, where the plot contains a circumstance that suddenly fixes everything without a valid explanation.



Hope this helps!Can someone explain what "Deus ex Machina" means?
It means "God from the Machine." In ancient Greek drama,

when the leading character got himself into an inextricable

mess and there was really no plausible way out, one of the

gods would descend in a winched basket and magically

solve the problem.



By extension, the term applies to an unheralded and

improbable party, who arrives at the 11th hour to save

the day.

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