Question

1. Discuss the idea of man versus machine as illustrated in Brecht's 'General, your Tank is a Powerful Machine​

Answer 1

Answer:

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Explanation:

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Answer 2

Answer:

In the poem `General, Your Tank` Bertolt Brecht expresses his strong and abiding faith in the greatness of mankind. But machines are dominating mankind. Brecht ironically shows how helpless humans are made by machines. They became slaves to the machine.

Explanation:

• The poem is a satire on war and military generals.
• The figure of speech in the poem is ironic.
• In every war, it is the poor soldier who fights and gets killed bringing glory and praise to the lazy fatty Military Generals.
• The ordinary soldier is always forgotten and the General is raised to the status of a hero after winning the war.
• Bertolt Brecht skillfully uses irony and satire throughout the poem to convince the reader of the stupidity of military generals and the futileness of war.
• Bertolt Brecht's poem is addressed to a military general, and his "tank is a powerful vehicle because it can destroy forests and kill hundreds of people, but unfortunately! It's flawed.
• Without a man to drive, it would be as useless as a helpless general without a soldier bravely fighting under him.
• Again, the poet flies faster than his bomber can carry heavy winds. So tell the general that it is very powerful, but it is useless without a mechanic who is an ordinary soldier of the army.
• However, machines were invented by humans, and machines are completely useless without humans.
• Still, it is a tragedy for machines to use humans as slaves, as all clever, creative and useful work is done by machines!
• Finally, the poet tells the general that humans are very useful to the general because he uses soldiers and machines equally in war and machines are more important.
• Soldiers can fly and kill people. But he also has drawbacks. What is lacking is that humans can think.
• In the army, thinking is flawed! If the general has the intelligence to believe they will fight and never end the war through debate!

Hence, machines are so advanced man became a slave to them. Man depends on machines to great extent. He can't lead his day without machines.

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