Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel

In western society, technology has become so entrenched into our lives that we are seemingly unable to perform daily tasks without it. Technology is ubiquitous, rapidly evolving, and provides many benefits to society. From smartphones, to digital...

In Emily St John Mandel’s 2014 science fiction, dystopian novel Station Eleven, a majority of the world is deceased due to the Georgia-flu pandemic spread unknowingly by a passenger on a flight from Russia to The United States causing an...

Station Eleven includes a vast number of key characters and storylines, focusing on both the internal and external battles these characters face. Some characters, such as Kirsten, Jeevan, and Clark, long for community after a life of disarray,...

Humans are social beings. It is because of this that we, as a species, have survived for so long. But, what happens when an event causes confusion to many people? When the curiosity of the unknown cannot be satisfied by knowledge of one or another...

Emily St. John Mandel explores two different interpretations of humanity in the post-apocalyptic novel ‘Station Eleven.’ The author examines how humanity is capable of both goodness and evil in the face of catastrophe. Survivors often wonder why...

While Emily St John Mandel presents survival as an inert desire for humanity in the event of cataclysmic crisis, her elegiac novel Station Eleven ultimately exposes the lack of fulfillment or agency many individuals may experience in the absence...

While Emily St John Mandel’s novel Station Eleven portrays Arthur Leander as the seemingly fundamental figure due to his thorough association and cogent influence with the majority of other characters, Mandel herself preferentially catechizes...

Emily St John Mandel’s novel, ‘Station Eleven’, demonstrates the negative impacts of idolising success and indicates that truth and beauty are more fulfilling. She implies that inauthenticity blinds society from valuing art and connection which...