The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age Literary Elements

The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age Literary Elements

Genre

Short stories

Setting and Context

A distant cyber controlled world

Narrator and Point of View

An unnamed, third-person omniscient narrator.

Tone and Mood

The tone is unsettling; the mood is strange.

Protagonist and Antagonist

Trurl is the protagonist; the robot is the antagonist.

Major Conflict

The major conflict of the book occurs when the intelligent machines are first developed and Trurl is tasked with repairing them.

Climax

The climax of the story is reached when Klapaucius tells Trurl about his shocking discovery about one of the robots that he was fixing.

Foreshadowing

The desire to uncover the truth is foreshadowed by Trurl's determined nature.

Understatement

The role of honesty is understated throughout the novel.

Allusions

The story alludes to an alternative world where robots rule the entire society.

Imagery

The imagery of mechanical fixing is present in the novel.

Paradox

The fact that the robots are in charge, yet have no emotions is an example of paradox in the story.

Parallelism

N/A

Metonymy and Synecdoche

The broken tools are a metonym for the destruction of the human race.

Personification

N/A

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