Childhood's End | Themes
Several commentators have noted how Childhood's End opposes the intuitive to the rational, the immaterial to the material, and the community to the individual. The prohibition the aliens deliver, "The stars are not for Man," implies human impotence on the epistemological, sexual, and personal levels. Not only is technology unable to cope with the manifold appearances of the universe, its maker, the analytic mind, is unable. Several of the novel's questers are blind, actually or metaphorically; the insights of the novel are achieved by those characters willing to acquiesce or to...
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