Essays on Station Eleven

The novel, “Station Eleven”, by Emily St. John Mandel, begins surprisingly with the end of the world as people know it. While performing onstage, Arthur Leander, playing the role of King Arthur, falls dead to a heart attack. Shortly after this tragedy, a highly contagious...

Thousands of decades ago, civilization created a language, symbols and cultures all over the world and the moment this all appeared researches have called it “the cultural big bang”. The reason the world is what it is today, is because humanity has brought the art...

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel highlights the situation in the world years after the world’s population has been swept away by a dangerous virus known as the Georgian Flu. The flu leads to the desertion of numerous major cities. All sources of “gasoline...

The idea of what makes an acceptable hero in literature today is vastly different to what it was in ancient times. Analyzing Oedipus Rex and Station Eleven displays an excellent example of how the idea of a hero has changed in writings over time. Sophocles...

“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...

Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven was published in September 2014. The novel was a National Book Award Finalist and a Pen/Faulkner Award. The novel starts and ends with Arthur Leander’s death on the stage from a heart attack. Arthur got married three times and...