When an author writes a time travel narrative the author must consider the effects that changes will have upon ethical standards, history, mortality, free will, and self-identity. For instance Octavia Butler tackles the nature of self-identity, in her novel Kindred, by having Dana experience real life situations in two different realities, leaving her altered forever never truly being a part of either time. She also gives graphic first hand illustration of what ethics should be and why they should be as they are, especially in her depiction of American slavery, making history come alive. Authors must also question the possibility of free wills existence, sometimes even contradicting each other. For instance in Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol free will exists and it is up to the individual to choose their fate. Where as in Robert Heinlein’s By His Bootstraps free will is entirely an illusion. Nevertheless, it is the manner in which rules that make up modern reality can be playful questioned and explored that makes time travel narratives so intriguing to the
When an author writes a time travel narrative the author must consider the effects that changes will have upon ethical standards, history, mortality, free will, and self-identity. For instance Octavia Butler tackles the nature of self-identity, in her novel Kindred, by having Dana experience real life situations in two different realities, leaving her altered forever never truly being a part of either time. She also gives graphic first hand illustration of what ethics should be and why they should be as they are, especially in her depiction of American slavery, making history come alive. Authors must also question the possibility of free wills existence, sometimes even contradicting each other. For instance in Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol free will exists and it is up to the individual to choose their fate. Where as in Robert Heinlein’s By His Bootstraps free will is entirely an illusion. Nevertheless, it is the manner in which rules that make up modern reality can be playful questioned and explored that makes time travel narratives so intriguing to the