Analysis Of Ray Bradbury's Short Story 'The Flying Machine'

If you’ve ever had, when you were a child, hid behind your mother because you were afraid of strangers then you have been timorous. To be timorous means to be full of fear and also very timid and shy. In Ray Bradbury’s short story The Flying Machine, the Emperor demonstrates his fear of the peace of his country being destroyed through his thoughts, words, eventually his actions when he makes up his mind about what to do with the man flying in the sky. The emperor first starts to feel timorous when his servant comes up to him and tells him that he saw a man is flying in the sky. The Emperor then sits down and prepares himself before going to see the flying man. In paragraph 20 of the flying machine, he thinks, “That wonderful wall which had
He is very timorous that the evil man will ruin his country. The Emperor is letting himself be ruled by his fears. He is so afraid that he keeps imagining the things that could happen, instead of the things that are more likely to happen. He is so ruled by his fears that he thinks about all the bad things instead of the good things that could happen from accepting the flying machine into his country. In conclusion, the Emperor is very timorous throughout the story and does end up killing the inventor of the flying machine. The Emperor does at the end say that he must take solace from the thought that it was only one life against millions of others. He was very afraid but, he wasn’t cruel. The Emperor was timorous and showed it first through his thoughts, then words, and finally, his actions when he killed the inventor. The Emperor let his fears affect his decisions, and therefore ended up killing the inventor, even though had he not been so afraid, the inventor might have lived. He did not want to kill the inventor, but he was so afraid that he