# What Dehumanization by Technology means in Metropolis

> The machines in Metropolis are depicted as god-like entities that enslave workers, reducing them to mechanical parts. Workers are described as 'mangled souls' and 'slaves of the god-machines,' performing repetitive tasks until they collapse, highlighting the loss of humanity i…

## Explanation

The machines in Metropolis are depicted as god-like entities that enslave workers, reducing them to mechanical parts. Workers are described as 'mangled souls' and 'slaves of the god-machines,' performing repetitive tasks until they collapse, highlighting the loss of humanity in an industrial society.

The city's mechanized environment reduces workers to mere cogs in a machine, highlighting the loss of humanity.

The workers are described as having 'the same faces' and being 'one thousand years old,' reduced to 'food' for the machine. The city's relentless rhythm erases individuality.

Freder's vivid description of workers as hollowed-out beings, their brains sucked dry by machines, exemplifies the theme of technology stripping away humanity.

The Paternoster machine reduces workers to automatons, with Georgi reciting a mechanized Lord's Prayer and Freder feeling the machine's 'sucker' bore into his brain.

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