Compare and Contrast: ‘Dune’ by Herbert and ‘Star Wars’ by Lucas The novel Dune by Frank Herbert, and the novel Star Wars by George Lucas have many comparisons and contrasts. Even though they were written more than 10 years apart, they are both very entertaining. In Dune the story takes place on a dry desert planet called Arra kis, where water is very scarce, and only the rich own it. Similarly, in Star Wars the story starts out on a desert world called Tatooine, where water is very scarce and expensive. In Star Wars there is a mysterious power called the force that only a few people posses.
It allows you to move objects, see in to the future, and communicate with people far away just by thinking it. Similarly, in Dune there is a power that very few people posses. It let the people that knew how to use it communicate with their people when they were far away, and let them see intothe future. In Dune, there are people who live out in the desert called Freemen who are scavengers and somehow survive without water. Similarly, there is a small scavenger race called Jaw as who live out in the desert in the story Star Wars.
In Dune the main character is a teenage boy whose father was killed by the evil Vladmir, a powerful leader who he must confront and kill. The main character finds out that Vladmir is related to him, he is his uncle. He also starts to learn about a powerful force from someone close to him, his mother. Similarly, in Star Wars the main character is a teenage boy, whose father was killed by the evil Darth Vader, whom he must confront. Darth Vader also turns out to be related to the main character, his father. He also gets his first teachings in the force from someone close to him, the man that was like an uncle to him.
The Essay on Star War Special Effects
People saw the news on the TV, hundreds of Star Wars fans lined up out side of movie ticket box office when Star Wars: Episode I- the Phantom Menace just starts showing in theaters. Star War fans waited hours in the line, just to get the movie tickets so they can watch this latest Sci-fi movie. The sneak previews of the Phantom Menace showed many spectacular computer generated scenes, graphics, ...
In Dune, all the space flights and cargo transportation were done by the secretive Guild, who don’t reveal their identity to anyone. However, in Star Wars anybody who can buy a space ship can fly it. Cargo transportation is done by smugglers who do not hide their identity. In conclusion, there are so many similarities between Dune and Star Wars, that the reader might wonder if some of the ideas were stolen from Frank Herbert’s novel Dune and used when George Lucas wrote Star Wars.
