Religious Violence In Frank Herbert's Dunemessiah

1-Science fiction is a genre with transformative potential, allowing authors to recontextualizetechnological, cultural, or social issues in order to pose questions about those issues. Sciencefiction narratives can transpose a problem to a futuristic literary universe, modifying the problemin order to create a critical perspective on the issue. The genre of science fiction is capable of transformation. Authors can use it to depict cultural,technological, or social issues in an alternate universe of the future and provide and invitecommentary. In this way, reality is modified in order to challenge and question existing norms.2-This work examines the first two novels of Frank Herbert ' s Dune series, Dune and DuneMessiah,

My work argues that, in the Dune novels,religious violence functions as a colonial project that closely resembles the goals of real-worldcolonial enterprises, and the failure to manage this colonial project by those who initiated itshows that the effects of colonial projects based on religious violence are dangerous anduncontrollable.A colonial project is charted and examined using the religious enabling of physical power,epistemic violence, and cultural control. According to this study, religious violence takes the roleof a colonial project in Dune, closely resembling the motives of colonial establishments in

We rightly consider the Holocaust to have forever altered our perspectives, so why do we ignorethe epistemological changes caused by Imperialism and continued into the present day byOrientalism?Theoretical part. Edward Said' s Onemalism functions as a central text for this thesis, as his analysis of Westerndepictions of the Orient will serve as a theoretical touchstone for similar depictions of the otherin the first two Dune novels. Said defines the Orient as "the place of Europe's greatest and richestand oldest colonies ... its cultural contestant, and one of its deepest and most recurring images ofthe Other" (I). Depictions of the Orient in European literature adopt the traits of Orientalism, aterm employed by Edward Said to describe the way that literature, history, and politics aredefined by and reflect hegemony. As the Dune novels portray marginalized cultures through thecolonial gaze of competing empires, postcolonial theory allows this thesis to examine those textsfrom a critical perspective