Themes of Word processor of Gods

Words processor of Gods By Stephen King

Themes

1)    Bringing Dream into existence

Richard always longed for money and happy life. For the money he wanted to write lucrative novel and for the happy life, he wanted to marry Belinda, but he failed in his own. His brother’s son Jon play a very important role in bringing his dream true. He gifts his uncle a computer which is more like Wand Word Processor. But his brother family die in accident. He used Execute key each time to make his wish true like rubbing ewer in Aladdin.

First wish he typed for money

“Twelve twenty Dollar gold pieces in small cotton sack”

These coins appear as he wishes. These golden coins are heavier than the Rolex watch. The symbol of Eagle is carved on it with date 1871. Date suggest that word processor work like a time machine which bring coin from the past.

Second dream of Richard was that he led a happy married life but in reality he was too cowardice to fight for his beloved. He typed on screen

“I am a man who lives alone except for my wife Belinda and my son Jonathan”

Wife and son of his brother which become dead in accident. This machine brings back to them in this world again. It also suggests according to writer that machine can defy the God power.

2)   Deleting things from reality:

Richard life is not a happy life. He has an ignorant son and wicked wife. This family in his life is a burden on Richard. Richard was only a money bank for his son, who waste time in playing guitar and with the group of his friends. While his wife who do nothing just reading sexually explicit Romantic novels and eating. There is no love between Richard and his wife.

First of all, he vanishes his son from home by typing command on machine.

“My son is Seth Robert Hagstrom”

Then he clicked on Delete button. One of his hurdle is removed from his life. But the other one remaining, who is his wife. He becomes relieved that he read many times the melodramatic phrase “I have no son”. Because he experiences first time the feeling of not having irritating one.

Richard always feels embarrassed due to his wife in front of his friends because she served them anything. He always criticized by her for not writing a noble prize winning short story while she does nothing.

As she says

“Why don’t you write a noble prize winning short story or something?”

So, that’s reason he wanted to get rid of wife foe not being happy with him.

He typed command on computer

“My wife is Adlina Mabel Warren Hagstrom”

And then click on Delete button. He gets command over his life by using a machine which was only a set of wires. He deleted things from his life which only gives him a sadness

 

3) Fate vs Technology

  Richard life was the ill-fated life and his brother who is older and bigger always get what he wanted by force even his girlfriend Belinda. In real life, Richard was cowardice, timid and weak to fight for his love. So, he uses technology which he called magic dream machine, to defy and to go against his fate. By the use of technology, he makes his dead brother’s wife and son in the possession of himself.

4) The corruption of Mankind

The theme of corruption of mankind is prevalent in the story. Human always wanted that the bad and useless people who are closed ones to be vanished from their life instead of making them better ones. In the story Richard also done this with his verbally abusive wife and bratty, disrespectful teenage son. Vanishing the real one is not less than to murder someone. So the happy ending in the story is attained by annihilating moral values.

5) Human Shortsightedness and greed

Richard after getting the temporary and Godlike power, he only fulfils his few wishes which is also in reach of human powers. There are many ways to attain wealth and led a happy life. But human being as shortsightedness and greed only think about little thing in spite of having a huge purpose.

6) Indignant hate for bullies

Stephan King really hates bullies and it is manifested in many of his stories. In this story Richard’s brother bullies him, writer show it through flashback technique that he was viciously cruel to Richard throughout in his childhood. Depiction of teenage cruelty are terribly effective in making us sympathize with victim.

There are two places in story where Richard become victim of bully. Firstly, when Roger breaks the Magic Eight Ball which is the toy of Richard

“Roger had thrown it onto the sidewalk as hard as he could, breaking it”

And second time, he bullied for his beloved Belinda. Richard was first who dated with Belinda. But they broke up due to the threat given by his brother. And later Belinda becomes wife of the Roger.