Deus ex machina

Deus ex machina is a Latin phrase meaning “god leaves the machine”.

It is especially employed in the theatrical vocabulary about a person who arrives, in a way impromptue, at the end of the part and by which the outcome is carried out. The expression existed already in the Greek Théâtre (από μηχανής θεός - “ apo mekhanes theos ”), to indicate a mechanism being used to make enter in scene one or of the divinities to solve a desperate plight. The expression can be wide with any resolution of history which does not follow the Logique intern of the history but makes it possible to the playwright to conclude his part from the manner that it wishes. It can, however, indicate with the clean direction the simple representation on scene of a divinity.

At Molière, the intervention of the royal authority constitutes a Deus ex machina : in Sanctimonious hypocrite , the last counterpart is a praise of the Prince, to which the recourse was made necessary by the violent attacks of the Coterie S against the part: “We live under an enemy prince of the fraud, a prince of which the eyes are done day in the hearts, And which all the art of impostors cannot mislead. ”.

In the language running, the expression also applies to an element which arrives by surprised and which solves a problem blocked until there. One can thus say of a person who it is the deus ex machina if it comes to arrange a problem at the last time.

In Murder party, or Soirée inquires, this term often refers to an abuse the scenario or the organizer to start an action which could not have taken place of the only roleplay of the players.

A similar use of the term is made in the case of the roleplays, when the Master of play résoud by the means of an external force a situation which the characters players could not survive if not.

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