The Lady Jessica Character Analysis
The Lady Jessica is a significant part of the book Dune by Frank Herbert. When first introduced to Lady Jessica she is a loving mother and only there to serve her family; being a BG it is her duty. Throughout the story she dramatically transforms into the RM and evolves as the all knower for the Freman people.
At the beginning of the book, the story starts with Lady Jessica bringing her son to receive a test from the RM. The test is dangerous and could potentially kill her son, but she takes her son anyways. Showing the readers, she does as she is told. Jessica also says, “I am Bene Gessert: I exist only to serve.”(pg 37) Throughout the first book Jessica is nothing but a server for her family.
In the second book Maud’Dib, Jessica starts to transform. Paul and her are exiled to the desert and have to find a way to survive. She begins noticing …show more content…
If she was not, the book, itself would not be a science fiction novel. A great deal of Jessica’s Character explains the history and “science” behind the book. An example of this is when Jessica finally transforms into the Mother Reverend, the readers finally get an explanation of how the RM and the BG school works. “She felt that she was a conscious mote, smaller than any subatomic particle, yet capable of option and of sensing her surroundings. Like an abrupt revelation-the curtains whipped away- she realized she had become aware of a psychokinesthetic extension of herself.” (pg 574)
Some of the Lady Jessica’s life changes seem natural to the human experience. The lady Jessica naturally changes the way she interacts with her son Paul. She slowly allows her son to make decisions on his own and holds her tongue more as he matures. Although the way her son is changing is unnatural in the normal world, the way she reacts lets the reader connect with her as a mother letting her son make decisions on his
At the beginning of the book, the story starts with Lady Jessica bringing her son to receive a test from the RM. The test is dangerous and could potentially kill her son, but she takes her son anyways. Showing the readers, she does as she is told. Jessica also says, “I am Bene Gessert: I exist only to serve.”(pg 37) Throughout the first book Jessica is nothing but a server for her family.
In the second book Maud’Dib, Jessica starts to transform. Paul and her are exiled to the desert and have to find a way to survive. She begins noticing …show more content…
If she was not, the book, itself would not be a science fiction novel. A great deal of Jessica’s Character explains the history and “science” behind the book. An example of this is when Jessica finally transforms into the Mother Reverend, the readers finally get an explanation of how the RM and the BG school works. “She felt that she was a conscious mote, smaller than any subatomic particle, yet capable of option and of sensing her surroundings. Like an abrupt revelation-the curtains whipped away- she realized she had become aware of a psychokinesthetic extension of herself.” (pg 574)
Some of the Lady Jessica’s life changes seem natural to the human experience. The lady Jessica naturally changes the way she interacts with her son Paul. She slowly allows her son to make decisions on his own and holds her tongue more as he matures. Although the way her son is changing is unnatural in the normal world, the way she reacts lets the reader connect with her as a mother letting her son make decisions on his