Among the many concepts of "Starwalks War" Type of stolen books by "Dina"Here is the voice. People who have not read the novels "Duna" will recognize the idea of ​​the equivalent of the trick of the minds of "Starwells War" ("These are not the Duins you are looking for"), but in Frank Herbert's novels, The The the The voice is used primarily by Bene Geserite, a cult of women who are essentially nuns of witches from space. The voice can be used to overcome people's free will, so if someone who is not trained to resist the voice is trying to kill Bene Gesite with a knife, for example, the nurse can use the voice to tell them : "Lower the knife." The attacker will usually do so, even if they know they should not.

Voice is usually used directly, but there are times in books where the character will subtly use the voice to get what they want; If you listen to a highly trained member of Bene Gesite with a bright voice, sometimes it can feel like they are very convincing.

Like many concepts in the Duna Universe, voice is one of those things that sounds simple, but raises a ton of questions the moment you start thinking about it. Fortunately, the author Frank Herbert himself asked himself these questions, so the books mainly have all the answers you need.

Learning to make our voice, it lasts for years of training, as we see with Paul Atreids when we first meet him in the book/film. Despite the fact that Paul is incredibly gifted, becoming to become Ultra powerful Quissac HaderahAt 14, he is still struggling to use his voice effectively. When the book moves to Essica's point of view, she often notes that his voice attempts are clumsy, but there seems to be no doubt that she will get there in the end.

As for exactly how the voice is taught? The details are rare, but we have been told that it is a combination of years of voice training, tightening someone's overwhelming skills and a diet that includes Regular help of spice melange. In general, training for Bene Gesite as a whole seems to prioritize strong control over one's emotions and learning to read all the subtle signs of someone else's emotional state; This helps because part of the work of the voice is to make sure you understand the psyche of your goal. The more familiar with someone, the easier time you will have by using their voice.

Just as Bene Geserite is trained to use the voice, they are also trained to resist. Even someone who was not raised in ways of Bene Gesite, as a fan-old Duncan Idaho, is capable of learning to ignore his voice. In the second book, Paul trains Idaho (more precisely, A naked clone of Adaho) by exposing him to the voice as much as possible and allowed him to build immunity to it.

But although people can be trained to oppose their voice, it is still possible that Bene GeSerite is particularly powerful to overcome that training. We see this at the exhibition in one of the last moments of "Duna: Part Two", where Paul uses the voice of the same respect for the mother who used it at the beginning of the first film. The fact that he is capable of using his voice, shows how far he has grown during the story, and also makes it clear that Paul has become a Quisac Haderach, a figure more powerful than anyone else in the universe.

For those who do not have training for Bene Gesite, the best way to avoid a voice is to prevent the person from talking to you. Simple ear plugs could probably make the trick, or you could ask the person so they can't talk. The second is what Harconens do to Essesica and a half in Denis Vilnev's first film "Duna", though they make him a step further and hire a deaf man to keep them.

When he wrote the books, Frank Herbert not only came up with a bunch of cool superhuman capabilities for his characters, he also thought a lot about how the existence of those abilities would affect society. The existence of a voice means that being deaf is a really useful quality for a security guard, and also means that political rulers have an easier time manipulating the masses. It is not uncommon for leadership positions (mainly Paul) to subtly use the voice during his political speeches, quietly swing the audience on their side with a mix of magic and convincing rhetoric.

Voice also contributes to general widespread fear and mistrust of Bene Gesite. When Paul and Imsis have double to death, The leader of the frem style It essentially puts Essica's wrapping out of fear that he can speak with his voice and affect the outcome of the duel.

Essesica seems to be aware of this mistrust, so it reflects on the book about how she never used her husband's voice, even subtle. She is thinking about how he could have used him to influence his strategic decisions, but she knew to do so even once it would be a violation of his confidence and could potentially poison their relationship. In general, Bene Geserite seems to do not want to use the voice, except in extreme circumstances, partly because they know how upset regular people are.

Part of the inspiration for the voice has been reduced to how a very strong cultural and scientific interest in psychic forces during the 1950s and 60s. It helped Won W. Campbell, who edited one of the greatest scientific journals at the time, was fascinated by the topic And it will encourage writers to deliver stories to focus on this topic. The result is that a ton of hard science fiction in the mid -20th century has characters with the opportunity to do things similar to the voice, even books that have nothing to do with the subject. That may be why the "left hand of the dark" of Ursula K. Le Guin, who is largely aimed at exploring sex and gender, also has a great extent to an exhibition of one character who teaches another character telepathy.

Frank Herbert himself was clearly interested in psychia and believed that voice was something that existed among today's people. (Although not to the point we see in "Duna.") In A. 1969 interview for the bookHerbert explained how some college students expressed skepticism of their voice and how he talked and changed his mind.

"I said," We are doing it all the time ... And it is amazing for me that someone can even start asking this as a fact of our existence. " And they couldn't see that, "Herbert said. He described the students a hypothetical man who was a middle -aged, conservative veteran who lives in a small town in the Middle West. Herbert told students: "Now, by phone, strictly in voice, I want to go crazy." He continued:

"I drew a gross cartoon, but we say that if you know the individual well enough, if you know the subtleties of his strengths and weaknesses, just by the way you throw your voice, in the words you chose, with intonations, whatever Well, you can control it.