rewalker
09-12-2008, 10:38 AM
What have you found in Frank Herbert's Dune and what do you think about it? I have just read the serie fully and I want to discuss the Dune and its anologies with people who read it.
Last year i had just read the Mesnevi (which is the milestone of islamic tasawwuf) by 'Mewlana" and it changed my life a lot.(That is why i am rewalking) Just after i've completed the Mesnevi, i saw one of my friend reading the "Heratics of Dune". I looked at the pages of the book and recognised there are many similar ideas with mesnevi. Then i decided to read it and started with the "Heratics of Dune" and read all the series in the order of 5-6-1-2-3-4. I am strongly suspecting that Herbert also had read the mesnevi (or at least something about mesnevi) and influenced by it.
I think Dune is the Earth itself. The word for earth is "Dünya" in middle east cultures and it is read as -Dune ya- So the Earth is actually a place of desert just like the Dune in Herberts fiction. But it is sometimes hard to recognise it for those who live well. Water is the anology not for only the oil but also for all kinds of energy, especially the biological energy of human. For example in middle east cultures, speaking for nothing (wasting energy, that is water) is shame.
Fremans are anology to the peope who saw the desert face of Earth. These are the people who suffer because of the shortage of any kind of neccassity, like food, water, health.... Because they suffer, they get much and much stronger as the time passes and they teach their children how to fight and survive.
Last year i had just read the Mesnevi (which is the milestone of islamic tasawwuf) by 'Mewlana" and it changed my life a lot.(That is why i am rewalking) Just after i've completed the Mesnevi, i saw one of my friend reading the "Heratics of Dune". I looked at the pages of the book and recognised there are many similar ideas with mesnevi. Then i decided to read it and started with the "Heratics of Dune" and read all the series in the order of 5-6-1-2-3-4. I am strongly suspecting that Herbert also had read the mesnevi (or at least something about mesnevi) and influenced by it.
I think Dune is the Earth itself. The word for earth is "Dünya" in middle east cultures and it is read as -Dune ya- So the Earth is actually a place of desert just like the Dune in Herberts fiction. But it is sometimes hard to recognise it for those who live well. Water is the anology not for only the oil but also for all kinds of energy, especially the biological energy of human. For example in middle east cultures, speaking for nothing (wasting energy, that is water) is shame.
Fremans are anology to the peope who saw the desert face of Earth. These are the people who suffer because of the shortage of any kind of neccassity, like food, water, health.... Because they suffer, they get much and much stronger as the time passes and they teach their children how to fight and survive.