Station Eleven essays
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In Emily St. John Mandel’s post - apocalyptic novel ‘Station Eleven’ memory plays a significant role in the lives of the characters. Due to the Georgia Flu, wiping most of the worlds population and creating a world destruction, the characters in Mandel’s novel are ripped from the warmth and safety of their civilised lives and world and thrown into the...
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Emily St. John Mandel’s novel Station Eleven, spans across multiple timelines and provides her commentary of the modern world, ironically through it’s ‘downfall’. Station Eleven explores life post, during and after a cataclysmic pandemic, the Georgia Flu; a disease that wiped out the preponderance of mankind and for the most part, what Mandel viewed as toxic was also left behind....
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“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” Said by Albert Einstein when asked about the future relationship between humanity and our technology. In the current fast pace society, we demand speed and convivence with every aspect of our lives; whether it is faster internet, faster vehicles, smart phones, or AI. As a society technology has...
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