/lit/ - Literature

What I always find so striking about Dune, is how Paul is both the antagonist and the protagonist. But it's never really ever, ever in a million years shouted down he's the antagonist. It's just gradally making you sympathize with him, as he himself comes to term with his thoughts and his future. It was written as why power is a negative, but it's always one step ahead in compromising your every day morals into getting the alien-ness of Paul himself. That's something that I'm excited to explore more in my reread.