The creature has no faintest desire to return that contempt with worship. In Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel we see a flawed creator who hates his own flawed creation. If you consider fantasy literature that explores the relationship between creator and created, there is scarce a better. Perhaps the best.Įdited to add Frankenstein. I would add Twain's 'The Mysterious Stranger' as another powerful example of this theme. The old twilight-zone episode ( (The_Twilight_Zone) had the same point the horror of existing in the presence of childish, sadistic, self-centered Omnipotence. But Ellison is removing the separation, leaving a vision of mankind as a kind of bug tormented by a kid with a magnifying glass. Religions put that God at a distance mediate his abhorrence of humanity with prayer, curtains and sacrifice. His goal was to show what a horror it is to live in the presence of an omniscient, omnipotent being that hated and despised your very nature. It is Ellison's expression of any Abrahamic deity, Jewish, Muslim or Christian. Am I on the money here or am I misinterpreting things?Įither way, I highly enjoyed this read. More like, it seems like this story was developed off of a deeply pessimistic feeling (a lot like how Lovecraft crafted his stories) that we are all trapped here in reality, subject to the machinations of a divine being that hates us. So I wonder, was the entire point of the book an idea that we as humans, are consistently tortured by God day in and day out? Maybe the concept of an idea is the wrong thing to apply to this story. The A.I AM is referred to as God several times and he even comes to this prisoners in the form of a burning bush once, so I think the parallels are kinda hard to miss. Maybe it is because I was raised Christian (no longer one), but I saw some major parallels to biblical themes. This edition contains the original introduction by Theodore Sturgeon and the. First published in 1967 and re-issued in 1983, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream contains seven stories with copyrights ranging from 1958 through 1967. ![]() Now, I am guessing that this story doesn't necessarily have a main point to make, but rather the point is what you draw from it, and what I draw from it as thus. Rating details 28,559 ratings 2,303 reviews. It kinda has a bit of an art piece feel to it where the story isn't as much of the point compared what it has to say, and that is pretty much why I want to talk about it. ![]() I think at first glance someone might look at this story and conclude that it is nothing but torture porn but I didn't really get a sense of that. Overall, it was a darkly enjoyable, hour long read. As the title says, I finally got around to reading this.
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