Foundations of Dune & Not a Hero
A man not named Little Platoon offers the most fascinating, in depth analysis of Frank Herbert’s DUNE and its relation to Asimov’s FOUNDATION, I have ever heard. To me it is utterly eye-opening.
I found out more than I ever knew about Asimov and Herbert, perhaps more than I wanted to know. My dislike of DUNE MESSIAH, for example, is now explained to me.
He continues with a description of the famed (or notorious) hero’s journey or monomyth theory of Joseph Campbell, and contrasts that with more tragic and unheroic myth of Lord Raglan.
Watch and comment.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
