SPOILER ALERT. This video is for Fedaykin ONLY! Dune 2020 is happening. There has been an onslaught of new photos of the movie and the set. So far everything looks pretty epic and a whole new wave of excitement has been ignited for this movie and the Dune series as a whole. Before we get started if you wanted detailed breakdowns of Dune lore check out my Ultimate Guide to Dune Videos which can be found in the playlist on my channel front page.
So far I’ve covered the first 6 original Frank Herbert Dune Books and I’m currently working on the final video in the series. Many people are talking about Dune right now, which is great because I think it’s one of the greatest and certainly one of the most influential Science Fiction Sagas of all time. But Dune is also very complicated not only narratively often, but thematically as well. So in this video I will do my very best to break down some of the key themes of the series. First however, we have to briefly talk about the setting of the Dune Universe and its social and political structure!
Alright, So Dune takes place in the year 10190 AG. This is about 20,000 years in our future. The Epoch AG stands for After Guild. The guild is significant enough to be used as a marker of time because the guild provided a means for safe faster than light travel between worlds, which effectively unified the imperium. You’ve probably heard that the Dune universe runs on a substance called spice. That is true, the Planet Arrakis, also known as Dune is the only planet in the known universe where the spice Melange can be found. The spice is a substance that extends life, heightens awareness, in some it can lead to prescient vision, and it is also essential to space travel. Oh and one last thing, the spice is highly addictive to the point that once you become addicted you must continue taking it otherwise the withdrawals will kill you.
The Empire is maintained by a balance of power between the Emperor, The Noble Great Houses of the Landsraad, The Spacing Guild, and The Highly Secretively, Highly Manipulative, ever adapting Bene Gesserit Sisterhood. The Bene Gesserit sisterhood are key to the essential plot lines of Dune. For thousands of years they’ve been attempting to create The Kwisatz Haderach. The Kwisatz Haderach would be a man trained in their ways possessing all of their powers and more. But Ultimately their plans are thrown off when the Bene Gesserit Lady Jessica, who was given the task of bearing daughters only to the Duke Atreides, chose to give birth to a son instead. Jessica trained her son Paul in the Bene Gesserit way. The result was a Kwisatz Haderach born a generation too soon. Paul was not bound under Bene Gesserit conditioning, they could not control him. Inadvertently through their own hubris they unleashed a super being unto the universe and the eventual results would be devastating and long lasting.
Alright so now that we’ve gotten all of that out of the way it’s time to get to the main topic of this video. What are the key themes of the Dune Saga?
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