dune essay

This book all started with the family Atreides landing on plant Arrakis, commonly known as Dune.. The family Atreides were asked by Emperor himself to go and mine the spice on the planet

This book all started with the family Atreides landing on plant Arrakis,

commonly known as Dune The planet Dune was the centre of the universe due to

its immense amounts of spice This spice is greatly needed for all planets as

fuel and for raw materials The family Atreides were asked by Emperor himself

to go and mine the spice on the planet Their greatest enemy the Harkonnen's,

were also on Dune These two families mining the precious spice

on the same

plant would lead to great troubles and wars

Soon after that, I was introduced to a very brave and insightful young

man The young man is Paul Atreides Paul is medium height with short, black

hair His mother Jessica is a Bene Gesserit that means she knows the “weirding

way.” This means Jessica is trained to kill and is also trained

as a mind

reader She is very tall and beautiful and is always concerned with the actions

of Paul, the future ruler of the galaxy

Jessica's teacher, the Reverend Mother heard of Paul and thought that he

might be the great leader that the prophets told of The

Reverend Mother came

to Dune and tested Paul to see if this was so Paul underwent great pain and

suffering but passed the tests with the highest reverence Duke Leto, Paul's

father now came into the picture He was the leader of the

Atreides Family He

seemed very established and perceptive The Atreides family represented good

and honesty while their enemies, the Harkonnen's, were ruthless killers

The Harkonnen home planet, Gedi Prime was very desolate and dark It

represented the immorality and darkness within the Harkonnens Their leader

Baron Vladimir Harkonnen was very obese and inhuman He killed his own slaves

for fun and hated the Atreides with a passion He hated their peaceful and

honest ways Most of all he despised their coming to Dune This Harkonnen

leader appeared the typical tyrant leader Vladimir Harkonnen's most trusted

solider Feyd-Rautha was also like him except his physical

appearance was that of

ideal shape and form

Back at the Atreides base more characters are introduced

to me They

are Duncan Idaho who was the personal trainer for Paul Atreides,

Dr Yeuh who

was a good friend of the Duke and later was found out to be a traitor, and

Thufir Hawat the security officer of the base All these men seemed greatly

trusted in the Atreides family They taught Paul much about fighting and

protecting himself from his enemies These men along with

Paul's mother and

father helped prepare him for the coming hardships ahead A group of people

named the Fremen also were presented They were people who lived

in the desert

within the forbidden zone The forbidden zone was where no one would ever

travel It was said that there are huge masses of Fremen there along with giant

sandworms reaching a length of four hundred and fifty meters The Fremen

harvested spice, lived in the cities and in underground cities Their eyes were

bright blue on blue due to the saturation of the spice which changed their

colour

The beginning of this book was very interesting and told

me much about

each characters background and personality I knew there was something special

about Paul and his mother right from the start just by how the author described

them The family Atreides was very strong and even feared by the Emperor himself

because he knew that Paul was the prophet who was destined to stop all violence,

hunger, spice mining, armies and fighting He was to bring a new era along with

his leadership This frightened the Emperor that forced him to act against the

Atreides family

The Harkonnen's seemed a bit too uninteresting and

average to me They

were evil and hated all that was good The author should of added a bit more “

spice” to their characters This would of made the story more enjoyable

Otherwise, this science fiction novel is like it says on the cover, “A world

beyond your experience, beyond your imagination.”

The emperor sent the Atreides to Dune for one purpose only Their

destruction He joined forces with the Harkonnens and attacked the Atreides

The Harkonnen spy, Dr Yeuh turned off the defence's of the base that resulted

in the defeat of the Atreides All were killed except Jessica, Paul and Duncan

Idaho They managed to escape in a spice mining ship deep into the desert, in

the middle of the forbidden zone

The forbidden zone was very desolate and all you could see was sand

dunes and rock piles This place was to be inhabited by the Fremen Paul and

Jessica were amazed when they found an underground cavern that had thousands of

Fremen in it These Fremen looked strong and experienced Their bright blue

eyes stood out like the moon at night I knew that these Fremen would play a

big part in the book It was said that a man would come to lead them out of the

caves and they thought this was Paul by how he knew their

traditions

Paul began to grow more powerful with each passing day This part was

very interesting because I was shown how Paul has grown and how his dreams were

coming to reality The Fremen also developed because they seemed amused, but

simultaneously fearful of Jessica and Paul These two knew the weirding way and

the Fremen wanted to learn it in preparation for battle

Paul and Jessica started to teach the Fremen the

“weirding way” so they

could help fight against the Harkonnens and the Emperor Paul now is also

showing sings of a mature and experienced man

The novel now is progressing at a very fast pace because Paul and

Jessica are training the Fremen, planning their revenge on the Harkonnens and

their growth as characters in the novel Although I knew that Paul was going to

defeat the Harkonnens without finishing the book, the plot still was very

captivating I liked how the author described the feelings and pictures of

different scenes He really went into depth about the emotions

of the character

like whenever Jessica thinks about how Paul is maturing at an astonishing speed

Paul Atreides started to gain more power and fear throughout the planet The

Emperor knew Paul would soon be unstoppable so he must try to stop him By the

author making the Emperor fear Paul Atreides, it shows that even one of the most

powerful and influential man in the universe is afraid of him This shows that

if the Emperor is afraid of Paul then many more would also be Paul has already

won half the battle by putting fear into the hearts of his

enemies

After all the Fremen were trained and ready for battle, they call upon

their most powerful friend; the sandworms of Dune These massive creatures live

throughout all the sand dunes The sandworms were very well described and added

imagination and originality in the book The worms combined with the Fremen's

training would prove to be an unstoppable match Sandworms were used as a form

of transportation for Paul's army Since they are so large, many people could

fit onto them Armies would be crushed by their weight and would have great

disadvantages from the ground which was a great advantage to the Fremen No

force could stop or even match their extraordinary power and all would be

punished for the unfair deaths of the Atreides family Blood would soon flow

and Paul's revenge would be fulfilled.

To call upon the sandworms, a special tool named a

thumper would be used

These machines would send large vibrations into the ground Since sandworms

can sense vibrations easily and are attracted to them, they would come Once

they have arrived, ropes are thrown onto the sandworms and the men climb on top

of it By making the sandworms sensitive to sounds and

vibrations, people other

then the Fremen are fearful to walk deep into the desert because they know the

worms hear everything This is a natural protection for the Fremen because the

Harkonnens will never travel into the forbidden zone to attack

The final battle was approaching All of Paul's men were ready and

riding to meet the Harkonnen's and the Emperors legions of

soldiers Once at

the battle field, the giant worms spread open their mouths to stop enemy fire

and Paul's men got the first attack Much excitement and

fighting were

happening here so this part was worth reading the story Much detail was put

into the final fighting scene that made things more vivid and real There were

feelings of tension and fear So much was happening in so little time This

final battle scene was the climax of the story All of Paul's dreams and

training paid off by their victory over the Harkonnens Now he can rebuild the

empire to be what he was destined to make it Once victory was achieved, Paul

made rain clouds appear and rain poured onto the dry sands All were amazed by

his powers and no on ever questioned him or his decisions again Paul was now

the almighty ruler

In making a story get the readers appreciation the author must provide

the following essentials;

* Creativity

* Action and adventure

* Love and romance

* Strong story line (opening, body and closing)

The author Frank Herbert provided all these that made the story

interesting to me Frank Herbert's imagination made the

sandworms become lively

and the mystic powers of Paul come into perspective Paul fell

on love with a

beautiful young Fremen woman This added romance made Paul work harder to free

Arrakis of the wicked Harkonnens Much extra background

information given

through the book made me understand the characters and their emotions with more

comprehension There were many themes in ‘Dune' such as “you shall get your

just deserves.” This means that what you have done to others shall be done

back to you in full The Harkonnens army combined with the

Emperors attacked

and beat the Atreides Paul in turn strikes back with brute force that many

have not seen throughout their existence The Harkonnens and the Emperor were

annihilated and Paul's vengeance was paid I must say that this science fiction

book did create a sense of reality meaning that this situation could happen in

the future A boy or girl born in the future who is destined to

be the almighty

ruler He/she will guide us out of depression and into a new era

of peace and

prosperity Their may be truth to this story and one day a fight between good

and evil may come to reality

Dune is the typical `Good guys vs Bad guys' theme The Atreides are at

war with the Harkonnens and the good always win (as you already know.) Although

this plot is really used too much Frank Herbert did an excellent job to disguise

this fact He blended this into a great story line of action packed adventure

and dreams of the future