Dune Lesson Plan

Discuss the differences between how Paul and Feyd-Rautha handle killing another person.

In this last section at the end of Book 2, both Paul and his Harkonnen parallel, Feyd-Rautha, kill men in one-on-one combat. Paul kills Jamis perhaps too fairly, shaming him by giving him the option to yield. Feyd kills the slave-gladiator cruelly, using mind tricks and poison.

Both young men kill for a goal: Paul aims to secure his and Jessica's security with the Fremen; Feyd aims to replace key members of House Harkonnen so that he's set up for a later assassination attempt on his uncle, the Baron. The reactions to their fights are parallel as well. While Paul is chastised by...