What does the phrase "Deus Ex Machina" mean?

"Deus ex machina" is a Latin phrase that means, literally, "God from the machine" or "God out of the machine." Historically, it comes from the device used to lower an actor playing a god to the stage during a Greek play. Most of the time, these gods would appear to turn the plot around in a miraculous and convenient way, a way based on external forces rather than the internal forces driving the play.



In current literary terms, deus ex machina refers to a similar kind of ending or resolution: essentially, a resolution that conveniently and unexpectedly appears to solve everything, or twists the story in a way that makes no sense with what came previously.What does the phrase "Deus Ex Machina" mean?
It's a totally contrived plot device that seems to occur randomly and for the sole purpose of fulfilling a narrative aim. Think of a novel with two characters who hate each other, but after a nuclear war they are the only two people left on the planet and they subsequently fall in love. The nuclear war is a Deus Ex Machina.What does the phrase "Deus Ex Machina" mean?
This is a theatrical term that has been exported to other venues of life. It is a large contraption that is wheeled on to the stage and, because of its size and regal pronouncements, is considered to be a God. (A God machine.) The term has been cynically applied to other walks of life where the powerful person is seen as the creation of a mechanistic system rather than the real goods. I can think of no leader in the Western world, in the last fifty years, who has not been a "Deus ex Machina.)What does the phrase "Deus Ex Machina" mean?
In ancient Greek and Roman drama,a God introduced into a play to resolve the

entanglements of the plot.

Any artificialor improbable device resolving the difficulties of a plot.