![]() ![]() Witnessing this act causes Ted to realize that death is the only way they can ever escape AM, and he murders Benny and the others out of mercy, in order to free them from their tortured existence. ![]() Thus, driven mad from hunger after a months-long journey without food, Benny chooses to cannibalize Gorrister once they reach the ice caverns and realize that AM hasn’t given them a can opener to access the canned food there. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream Harlan Ellison One of Ellison’s most famous short stories, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream takes place in a future dominated by a supercomputer. While this might be an enjoyable game for AM, it has dire consequences: by removing Benny’s higher brain function, all that’s left is instinct. AM plays with evolution through Benny, devolving the more refined aspects of Benny’s humanity down to primal instincts and even blinding Benny when he tries to escape AM as the group makes their way to the ice caverns within the supercomputer. According to Ted, Benny went insane many years before the story takes place and now mutters to himself and acts childishly and impulsively. Once inside AM, however, the supercomputer dissolved Benny’s brain and body to a diminished state that is more akin to a deformed monkey than a human being. Before AM, Benny was a brilliant theorist and college professor. At one point, one of the characters hangs his mother-in-law in a harness so her brain can fly an evil iron zeppelin. Benny’s transformation is the most extreme of the five people-himself, Ted, Ellen, Gorrister, and Nimdok-trapped inside AM. And this is I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream. ![]()
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