The Sound Machine: Character Sketch of Klausner
CHARACTER SKETCH Of KLAUSNER
Klausner is the protagonist of the story. He was an amateur scientist, who was obsessed with sounds. He invented a sound machine to capture the sounds which are inaudible to te human ear.
- Physical Appearance –
Klausner is described as “a small frail man, nervous and twitchy, with always moving hands.”
His head was comparatively large, inclined towards his left shoulder as though his neck were not strong enough to support it.
He had a strange pale face and pale gray eyes that blinked and peered behind a pair of steel spectacles which looked bewildered, unfocused and remote.
His looks are that of typical scientist who is occupied in his own world so he appeared quite “dreamy” and”distracted “.
There was something different about him and his mind seemed to be quite distant from his body which characterised his absentmindness and he seemed to belong to different world.
- Self possessed and self occupied –
Klausner is quite self possessed and self occupied at this moment, as he is all alone in his workshop, tugging the wires, twiddling the switch and re -examining the mechanism of the machine. E enjoys talking to himself, sometimes smiling, hands and fingers continuously moving and shaking and his mouth twisting into curious shapes. He was saying to himself ” Ah yes ……of course…..good ….good….yes, yes.”
His excitement seemed to be suppressed as if waiting for something expected to happen.
- Obsessed –
his own world of thoughts. He was obsessed with sounds as he himself said to
Dr. Scott “ I like sound.”
high pitched sounds that are inaudible to human ear. He wanted to hear those
inaudible sounds which, according to him, made such a powerful musicthat they
could drive a listener mad. That is why he invented a sound machine, to capture
those inaudible sounds.
for hours on it, and made changes for improving on it.
moth is attracted to bright lights, so was Klausner was attracted to sounds.
Klausner as a “peculiar person” a
crazy man but “harmless one.”
desperately wanted to test his machine and prove his theory. At the end of the
story, even after his machine was destroyed, he demanded to know the doctor, if
the latter had heard the sound which he himself had heard earlier.
throughout the story in his behaviour and in his actions. While working on his
machine “ he picked up a piece of paper
that lay beside the box, studied it
carefully, put it down , peered inside the box ………then at the paper
again, checking each wire. He did this for perhaps an hour”.
machine to Dr. Scott, “ he was shifting
from one foot to other, tugging at the lobe of his ear, looking at his feet”-
reflecting his insecurity and lack of confidence.
was quite meticulous and patient like a true scientist.
to call Dr. Scott to verify the result produced by his sound machine in park,
he hurriedly went back to his home – “
he went to telephone, consulted the book, dialled a number and waited”.
patiently for him to answer. He even sat down beside the telephone and waited
for Dr. Scott to come.
to be a lover of nature. He was attracted to various sounds in nature.
inaudible sounds would be making new exciting music in the universe such
inaudible sounds when heard by men, would make them mad with excitement.
the inaudible sounds made by plants animals and insects.
his neighbour Mrs. Saunders cut the stem of the rose plant , Klausner could
hear “a throat less, inhuman shriek,
sharp and short, very clear and cold”.
if the rose stem was in pain .
Mrs. Saunders but she could not understand then he asked her “ how do you know that a rose bush doesn’t
feel as much pain when someone cuts its stem in two… It’s alive, isn’t it?”
when experimenting on a tree in a park, klausner hit the trunk of the tree with
axe, he could not stop himself touching the edges of the gash and pressing them
together to close the wound, he felt sorry for the damage as if the tree were a
real wounded person.
about the sound generated by the wheat plants when the mower would cut the
field and five hundred wheat stems every
second would scream with pain. His heart
was filled with pain and sorrow for the pain of plants.
and the branch fell upon the sound machine, smashing it into pieces. He was
although disappointed for his experiment but at the same time he demanded Dr. Scott
to “ stitch this up quickly” and “paint – the – cut- with –iodine”.
painful shriek of the plants. He could sense the unheard pain of the nature
when it is exploited and disturbed.
different from other human beings.
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