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The Dancing Partner
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"The Dancing Partner" is a Short Story from 1893 about a mechanical genius who builds the ideal lady's dancing partner and it all does not end well. It's a light Sci-Fi Horror told with a pinch of schadenfreude, which is to be expected from Jerome K. Jerome.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Nicholaus Geibel is an exceptionally talented mechanical toy maker who lives in Furtwangen im Schwarzwald, Germany. He and his daughter Olga enjoy a rich social life, one day leading to a post-ball get-together between Olga and a few close friends. The women chitchat about the trouble of finding quality dancing partners. They dislike how few men can dance well, how easily they tire, and how repetitive their small talk is. They jokingly bring up that a clockwork dancer would be a huge improvement. Geibel overhears this and decides to give it a try, as he's not made a partner dancing robot before. At a ball thrown by Wenzel some weeks later, Geibel introduces his latest creation to the guests as Lieutenant Fritz, but as intrigued as all are by it, the women are reluctant to take Fritz dancing on account of its uncanniness. Annette, the woman who'd first suggested the mechanical dancer, is cajoled into a trial run. All is well when Fritz demonstrates to be an excellent and entertaining dancing partner. Yet as the night ages and even the musicians tire, Annette and Fritz proceed to only dance faster and faster. It's at this point the other guests realize Annette has fainted and only keeps dancing because she's strapped to Fritz. The rescue attempt sends the robot crashing into a wall and badly injures Annette. Due to this incident, Geibel ends his construction of any and all humanoid robots.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Foreshadowing: The list of Geibel's more extravagant creations provides the reader with early clues what Fritz is capable of, what its limits are, and how things will play out. Like the donkey, Fritz can dance faster (for longer) than a human can. Like the bird, Fritz has a set course and disturbing that course causes unpredictability. Like the gentleman is more than a match to three humans, so to would've two or three men acting in concert been needed to force Fritz to a halt. Then there's the dancing skeleton that brings together dance and doom. And the curious description of a "life-size lady doll" is applicable to Annette once caged in Fritz's hold. | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Invoked twofold. One of the wishes the women had for a dancing partner was that he would "not get tired before [we] do." The problem with the robot was that it just never got tired at all and could not respond to his partner's tiredness the way a human would. And so when Annette made Fritz go faster, they kept dancing and dancing well past the moment she lost consciousness. When Annette warms up to Fritz, she exclaims that she "could go on dancing with him all [her] life." There's a possibility she did. | |
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