![]() Somewhere between a church and a fraternity, the Bene Gesserit are a sisterhood who use the spice melange (found only on Arrakis, or "Dune") to have visions of the future, or "prescience". What really separates Dune from other science fiction and fantasy stories is the complexity of its plot, and a chosen one or messiah storyline is a central thread. The plot is roughly the same between the novel and its film adaptations, even the cast of Dune's film adaptations are comparable to their fictional characters. ![]() Written in 1965 as the crowning achievement of science fiction author Frank Herbert, Dune is a much-loved novel of warring noble space houses fighting over control of the spice melange, a substance useful for both space travel and, for some people, prescience (the ability to see into the future). These plots do not play out as conventionally as one would expect, however, because the chosen one narrative is substantially complicated by other factors within the wider story. ![]() The chosen one trope is common in science fiction and fantasy storytelling. In Dune, Paul Atreides comes from another planet to lead Arrakis' indigenous Fremen. ![]() ![]() Paul Atreides is central to Dune's chosen one prophecy. ![]()
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