Station Eleven Book – Flashcards
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Apocalypse/collapse brought about by
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Georgia flu
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No "other" -
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i.e., zombies, vampires, Grendel, androids
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The efficiency of the disease...
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travelingsettling
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3 timelines:
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pre-apocalypse ,apocalypse & immediate aftermath, post-apocalypse - 20 years later
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pre-apocalypse
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- (Miranda, Arthur, Elizabeth love triangle; Clark)
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apocalypse & immediate aftermath
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(Arthur's death; Miranda; Kirsten as a child; Clark and Elizabeth getting to Severn City; Jeevan and his brother)
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post-apocalypse - 20 years later
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(Kirsten; Traveling Symphony; Prophet; Clark and the museum)
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** Station Eleven comics
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outside the timeline - this story transcends the entire book.
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Patient Zero?
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Arthur
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Arthur
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-actor/famous/ - constant surveillance; paparazzi; gossip; he courts the attention, though. - insecure? unsatisfied? Three wives, moves from one to the other with no break - can't be alone? a) Miranda: Ch. 13, p. 71. Dynamics of their relationship. - Delano Island, p. 72-74; theme of ISLANDS - End of marriage b) Elizabeth Colton: Ch. 15, p. 91 - Dinner party in the Hollywood Hills - M & E confront each other
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Opening Scene with Arthur's Death:
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King Lear's collapse in the narrative Art's own collapse on stage Collapse of society happening right at that moment.
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jeevan
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-Jeevan's revelation at the theatre - takes over from Arthur. **Idea that everyone has a personal apocalypse; it doesn't happen at the same time or place for everyone. -Shopping scene with multiple carts - rides out the worst of the collapse.
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Traveling Symphony
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Traveling for 15 years; performs Shakespeare-a time of apocalypse but relatable -what they mean for the archipelago of settlements. Pp. 46-47: look at this breakdown of their dynamics. Sartre: "Hell is other people" P. 57: Beautiful representation of how time is collapsed: pre- and post-apocalypse bleed together through Shakespeare.
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The Prophet
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controls people with the thought of 'we are the ones who survives for a reason" What does he end up doing for the Traveling Symphony? Sends them on a new and, ultimately, productive trajectory. - mom Elizabeth - can't think post-apocalypse. - "everything happens for a reason" - Tyler preaches to the plane = creepy!! - Prophet's death - relationship to Station Eleven?
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Miranda
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Miranda's own "apocalypse" - what do we think about her as a character? - Neptune Logistics - before and after Arthur - significance of change? Two main scenes: Shipping Fleet (p. 29) Death (pp. 225-228)
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Memory and relationships to the past
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- which is better, to remember or not to remember? Pp. 114-115: different paths for memory. - Kirsten's relationship to the past - what do various people hold onto? Kirsten, August, etc. - Looking for the Internet (Pp. 127-131) - Scavenging in the School: why so traumatic? Kirsten and August as record-keepers of a sort.
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Parallel Universes (200-203)
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what does it represent?
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Last Day
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= Severn City and the museum; making of the prophet; prophet stalking TS; last thoughts.
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Severn City Airport
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significance of this as a place in the novel? - different ways of marking time - formation of community among air travellers - islands again
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last Plane
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meaning..
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MUSEUM OF CIVILIZATION:
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- How does it start? WHY does it start? What's in there? - What function does it serve for the community and for the post-apoc world more generally?
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Comics (more)
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Chapter 8 (p. 42) & Chapter 14 (pp. 83-4; 86). - comparison between Station Eleven and post-apoc world = islands, "schism", wanting to go "home." - Two different audiences for this comic: Kirsten and Prophet/Tyler. - In the post-apoc narrative, who is the Dr. Eleven character? Who are the people of the Undersea?
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Ending
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ENDINGS HOPE 1) "World is waking up" (264) 2) Distant settlement with electricity (311-313)
