Paul Atreides (; later known as Paul Muad'Dib, and later still as The Preacher) is a fictional character in the
''Dune'' universe created by
Frank Herbert. Paul is the primary
protagonist
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in the first two novels in the series, ''
Dune
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'' (1965) and ''
Dune Messiah'' (1969), and returns in ''
Children of Dune'' (1976). The character is brought back as two different
gholas in the
Brian Herbert/
Kevin J. Anderson novels which conclude the original series, ''
Hunters of Dune'' (2006) and ''
Sandworms of Dune'' (2007), and appears in the
prequel
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The term ...
s ''
Paul of Dune'' (2008) and ''
The Winds of Dune'' (2009). According to
Brian Herbert, Frank Herbert's son and biographer, House Atreides was based on the heroic but ill-fated Greek mythological House
Atreus
In Greek mythology, Atreus ( , ; from ἀ-, "no" and τρέω, "tremble", "fearless", gr, Ἀτρεύς ) was a king of Mycenae in the Peloponnese, the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, and the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus. Collectively, ...
.
A primary theme of ''Dune'' and its
sequels is Frank Herbert's warning about society's tendencies to "give over every decision-making capacity" to a charismatic leader.
He said in 1979, "The bottom line of the ''Dune'' trilogy is: beware of heroes. Much better rely on your own judgment, and your own mistakes."
Paul rises to leadership through military strategy and political maneuvering, but his
superhuman
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powers and ability to fit himself into pre-existing religious infrastructure allow him to force himself upon mankind as their
messiah
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; ,
; ) is a saviour or liberator of a group of people. The concepts of '' mashiach'', messianism, and of a Messianic Age originated in Judaism, and in the Hebrew Bible, in which a ''mashiach ...
. As "Muad'Dib", Paul becomes the central figure of a new religion, and reluctantly unleashes a bloody
jihad
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in his name across the universe. Paul struggles with the idea of potentially seizing divine control over his newly minted empire, but by following the path of his destiny he escapes from the burden of it. He lets an assassination plot against him play out, blinding him, and follows the Fremen tradition of the blind going out into the desert to die. The burden of the empire is then placed upon Paul's sister
Alia, and his children
Leto II and
Ghanima. Paul later reappears as the Preacher, seeking to end the religion founded around him, but is assassinated.
Paul is portrayed by
Kyle MacLachlan in
David Lynch's
1984 film adaptation, by
Alec Newman in the
2000 ''Dune'' miniseries and its
2003 sequel, and by
Timothée Chalamet in the 2021
Denis Villeneuve
Denis Villeneuve (; born October 3, 1967) is a Canadian filmmaker. He is a four-time recipient of the Canadian Screen Award (formerly Genie Award) for Best Direction, winning for '' Maelström'' in 2001, '' Polytechnique'' in 2009, '' Incendie ...
film ''
Dune
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'' and its upcoming
2023 sequel.
Appearances
''Dune''
The son of
Duke Leto Atreides and the
Lady Jessica, Paul is the heir of
House Atreides, an aristocratic family that rules the planet
Caladan. Jessica is a
Bene Gesserit and an important key in the Bene Gesserit
breeding program. According to the breeding program, she was to produce a daughter, who would be bred with
Feyd-Rautha, a nephew of
Baron Vladimir Harkonnen. However, Jessica falls in love with Leto and grants him the son he desires. Although Paul is a boy, Jessica gives him some training in the Bene Gesserit ways, including enhanced observation and the Sisterhood's specialized martial art. Initially described as "small for his age", Paul has secretly undergone the early
Mentat training, and is also schooled in weapon use by
Gurney Halleck and
Duncan Idaho.
In ''
Dune
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'' (1965), Paul is fifteen years old; the
Padishah Emperor
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Shaddam IV orders the family to leave Caladan and govern the desert planet
Arrakis (known as Dune), though Paul's father Duke Leto is in full knowledge that the Emperor is colluding with
House Harkonnen to destroy the Atreides as a perceived threat to the throne. On Dune, the family is betrayed by their
Suk doctor
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''Dune'' word construction could be clas ...
,
Wellington Yueh. He disables the House defensive shields, allowing the Imperial
Sardaukar troops, dressed in Harkonnen uniforms, to capture Duke Leto and
Thufir Hawat and to kill most of the Atreides army. Duncan sacrifices himself while attempting to hold off the Sardaukar and ensures Paul's escape. His betrayal motivated by the Baron's capture and torture of his Bene Gesserit wife, Yueh implants a poisonous gas capsule concealed within a false tooth on Duke Leto after his capture and instructs Leto to use it to kill the Baron. Shortly afterward, the Baron has Yueh murdered. Upon meeting Baron Harkonnen and his twisted Mentat
Piter De Vries, Leto bites down on the capsule. He succeeds in killing De Vries — and himself — but not the Baron. Fed a poison for which only the Baron has the antidote, Hawat is forced to serve as the new Harkonnen Mentat. With some help from Yueh, Paul and Jessica escape into the desert.
They flee to the
Fremen, who see in Paul the ''Lisan al-Gaib'' or "the Voice from the Outer World", a
prophet
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they call the
Mahdi
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whom they believe is "The One Who Will Lead Us to Paradise". Paul and Jessica take shelter in
Sietch Tabr, a Fremen settlement led by the
naib,
Stilgar. Paul and his mother train the Fremen in weapon use and martial arts, creating a formidable army. When Paul is accepted into the Fremen tribe, he is given the secret "sietch name"
Usul, the Fremen word meaning "the base of the pillar". He chooses "Paul Muad'Dib" as his common name of manhood, to be used openly. Muad'Dib is the name of the adapted
kangaroo mouse of Arrakis, and Stilgar relates that Paul's choice pleases the Fremen:
Muad'Dib is wise in the ways of the desert. Muad'Dib creates his own water. Muad'Dib hides from the sun and travels in the cool night. Muad'Dib is fruitful and multiplies over the land. Muad'Dib we call 'instructor-of-boys.' That is a powerful base on which to build your life, Paul Muad'Dib, who is Usul among us.[ Herbert, Frank (1965). '']Dune
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''. .
Paul leads a Fremen campaign of resistance against Harkonnen rule. He and
Chani, daughter of
Liet-Kynes
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, take each other as mates and produce a son, named ''Leto'' in honor of Paul's father. Paul also reunites with Gurney Halleck, who had sought refuge with smugglers after the Harkonnen attack. In a bid to unlock his latent powers, Paul undergoes the process of
spice agony via the consumption of the
Water of Life. He survives, although barely, and the ordeal gives him knowledge of his male and female
ancestors; this proves Paul is the
Kwisatz Haderach.
Awakening, Paul launches an attack on the Harkonnen and Imperial troops with his Fremen army (and with his personal bodyguard, the
Fedaykin), riding the enormous
sandworms indigenous to the planet. In the attack, he learns that his son Leto has been killed in a Sardaukar raid. They win and Paul requests an audience with Shaddam IV. He threatens to destroy the spice
melange, thus making transport between the planets impossible and effectively destroying civilization. In return for preserving the spice, he requires the hand of the Emperor's daughter, the Bene Gesserit-trained
Princess Irulan as well as the Emperor's abdication in favor of Paul. Urged by the
Spacing Guild, Shaddam accepts his terms.
''Dune Messiah''
In ''
Dune Messiah'' (1969), Paul has been Emperor for twelve years. His
jihad
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has killed sixty billion people across the known universe, but according to his
prescient vision, this is a fate far better than what he has seen. Paul is beleaguered by a need he ''sees'' — to set humanity on a course that does not lead to stagnation and destruction, while at the same time managing both the Empire and the religion built around him.
A Fremen conspiracy attempts to assassinate Paul using a
stone burner
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. The attempt fails, but the effects of the weapon destroy Paul's eyes. Although he becomes physically blind, his prescience allows him to "see" by tightly locking in reality with his prescient visions. Despondent as a result of his prescience, Paul faces another assassination attempt by a conspiracy of the
Bene Tleilax
The Bene Tleilax, also called Tleilaxu , are an extremely xenophobic and isolationist society in Frank Herbert's science fiction ''Dune'' universe. Genetic manipulators who traffic in biological products such as artificial eyes, gholas, and "t ...
, the Bene Gesserit and the Spacing Guild. This attempt, made using a
ghola (a resurrected clone) of Paul's friend and mentor Duncan Idaho also fails, but the ordeal seemingly helps the Duncan ghola to regain his memories. At the same time, Chani dies in childbirth, bearing twins: a boy,
Leto II, and a girl,
Ghanima (which means "spoil of war"). Paul, who did not foresee the birth of twins, loses his prescience after Chani's death and becomes truly blind, although he conceals this. With a knife over the babies, the Tleilaxu
Scytale
In cryptography, a scytale (; also transliterated skytale, grc, σκυτάλη ''skutálē'' "baton, cylinder", also ''skútalon'') is a tool used to perform a transposition cipher, consisting of a cylinder with a strip of parchment wound ...
offers to make a ghola of Chani and restore her to life, in exchange for all of Paul's
CHOAM holdings and his effective abdication from the throne. However Paul, seeing through his newborn son's eyes, kills Scytale. Immediately afterwards, the dwarf Tleilaxu Master
Bijaz makes the same offer regarding the Chani ghola; Paul orders Duncan to kill Bijaz. The blind Paul then walks into the desert to die alone, in accordance with Fremen law. He leaves his children in the care of the Fremen, with Paul's sister
Alia set to rule the empire as regent.
''Children of Dune''
In ''
Children of Dune'' (1976), a mysterious figure known as The Preacher emerges from the desert and preaches among the people of Arrakis. Led around by a boy, he discredits the religion that has been built around Paul Atreides, saying "The religion of Muad'Dib is not Muad'Dib", and scorns Alia. It is strongly suggested that he is indeed Paul, which is confirmed when he walks past Alia and says, "Stop trying to pull me into the background once more, sister." Paul meets with his son Leto in the desert. They have both seen mankind's future extinction in their prescient vision; Paul had been unable to face the terrible sacrifice necessary to avoid this future, and hopes Leto will enjoy his life rather than take that path. Leto has decided otherwise, and soon begins the long transformation into a sandworm. Back in
Arrakeen, Paul (as the Preacher) speaks out against Alia to the crowd outside Alia's Temple; his words and the actions of Leto cause a riot. Reacting to his blasphemy, Alia's priests rush forward and stab Paul to death, as Alia and the remaining Atreides watch from above.
Over 3,500 years later in ''
God Emperor of Dune'' (1981), Leto still rules the universe as the Tyrant. The ego-personas of Paul and Leto's other ancestors "live" within his
Other Memory
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.
Later works
At the end of Frank Herbert's sixth and last book in the ''Dune'' series, ''
Chapterhouse: Dune'' (1985), a ghola of Scytale is seemingly the only Tleilaxu Master left alive. He secretly possesses a
nullentropy capsule containing cells carefully and secretly collected by the Tleilaxu for millennia, including cells from Paul himself.
In
Brian Herbert and
Kevin J. Anderson's ''
Hunters of Dune'', the 2006 sequel to ''Chapterhouse: Dune'', Scytale is a prisoner on the
no-ship ''
Ithaca'', at the mercy of the latest Duncan Idaho ghola and a rebel group of Bene Gesserit. Nearing death from advanced age, a desperate Scytale trades his precious cell samples for permission to grow his own ghola; Duncan and the Bene Gesserit group subsequently grow gholas of Paul, Chani, Jessica, and others. Meanwhile, the independent Face Dancer
Khrone obtains Paul's genetic material from a religious relic on Caladan and tasks his
Lost Tleilaxu prisoner
Uxtal
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to create his own ghola of Paul. Named Paolo, this ghola is to be "conditioned" by Khrone's sadistic ghola of Baron Harkonnen to become a twisted version of Paul, who will serve the shadowy needs of Krone's mysterious masters,
Daniel and Marty
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.
In 2007's ''
Sandworms of Dune'', the young Paul ghola ultimately duels Paolo. Paul is mortally wounded, but the trauma restores his original memories and he manages to heal himself. A power-hungry Paolo overdoses on
ultraspice, an incredibly potent form of melange, and falls into a
catatonic
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state. Later on the recovering planet Dune, the awakened gholas of Paul and Chani have reverted to the ways of the ancient Fremen, resolving to lead simple lives and restore the planet to its former glory. Paul reaffirms his love for Chani, telling her he has loved her for five thousand years.
Paul's birth is featured in the Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson
prequel
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The term ...
novel ''
Dune: House Corrino'' (2001). The 2008 novel ''
Paul of Dune'' explores both Paul's childhood before ''Dune'' and his life between the novels ''Dune'' and ''Dune Messiah''. Brian Herbert and Anderson's ''
The Winds of Dune'' (2009) also relates events from Paul's youth and the period before ''Dune Messiah''.
Analysis
According to novelist
Brian Herbert, Frank Herbert's son and biographer, House Atreides was based on the heroic but ill-fated Greek mythological House
Atreus
In Greek mythology, Atreus ( , ; from ἀ-, "no" and τρέω, "tremble", "fearless", gr, Ἀτρεύς ) was a king of Mycenae in the Peloponnese, the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, and the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus. Collectively, ...
.
Noting that the characters in ''Dune'' fit mythological archetypes, Brian Herbert wrote that "Paul is the hero prince on a quest who weds the daughter of a 'king'".
A primary theme of ''Dune'' and its sequels is Frank Herbert's warning about society's tendencies to "give over every decision-making capacity" to a charismatic leader.
He said in 1979, "The bottom line of the ''Dune'' trilogy is: beware of heroes. Much better rely on your own judgment, and your own mistakes."
He wrote in 1985, "''Dune'' was aimed at this whole idea of the infallible leader because my view of history says that mistakes made by a leader (or made in a leader's name) are amplified by the numbers who follow without question." In a 1970 interview, Herbert noted that the character of Paul was constructed to express "the conflict between absolutes and the necessity of the moment". Brian Herbert wrote:
The similarity to T.E. Lawrence was reinforced within the novel ''Dune Messiah'', in which a chapter heading-quotation is taken from a post-conquest work of Paul's, with the title ''The Seven Pillars of the Universe''. This appears to have been inspired by Lawrence's account of his war-time activities in the desert, titled ''
Seven Pillars of Wisdom''.
Throughout Paul's rise to superhuman status, he follows a plotline common to many
stories describing the birth of a hero. He has unfortunate circumstances forced onto him, and after a long period of hardship and exile, he confronts and defeats the source of evil in his tale. As such, ''Dune'' is representative of a general trend beginning in 1960s American science fiction in that it features a character who attains godlike status through scientific means. Paul's riding and controlling a giant sandworm cements him as a Fremen leader,
and he eventually gains a level of omniscience which leads to his accession to the Imperial throne and causes the Fremen to worship him like a god.
Juan A. Prieto-Pablos says Herbert achieves a new typology with Paul's superpowers, differentiating the heroes of ''Dune'' from earlier heroes such as
Superman,
A. E. van Vogt's
Gilbert Gosseyn, and
Henry Kuttner's telepaths. Unlike previous superheroes who acquire their powers suddenly and accidentally, Paul's are the result of "painful and slow personal progress". And unlike other superheroes of the 1960s—who are the exception among ordinary people in their respective worlds—Herbert's characters grow their powers through "the application of mystical philosophies and techniques". For Herbert, the ordinary person can develop incredible fighting skills (Fremen and Sardaukar) or mental abilities (Bene Gesserit and Mentats).
Denis Villeneuve
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, director and co-writer of the 2021 film adaptation ''
Dune
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'', compared Paul to the character
Michael Corleone in ''
The Godfather
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'', explaining that "He's training to be the Duke. But as much as he's been prepared and trained for that role, is it really what he dreams to be? That's the contradiction of that character. It's like Michael Corleone in ''The Godfather''–it's someone that has a very tragic fate and he will become something that he was not wishing to become."
The Egyptian-Canadian commentator Khalid M. Baheyeldin has enumerated the obviously Islamic concepts and references appearing in ''Dune'', to the level of finding multiple similarities between the career of Herbert's Paul Atreides and that of the Islamic prophet
Muhammad
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. Beyond the obvious general resemblance - both Muhammad and Atreides found a powerful new religion, energizing hitherto disregarded desert-dwellers to topple an old empire and build a new one - Baheyeldin noted various specific similarities between Muhammad's career and that of Atreides.
In adaptations
Paul is portrayed by
Kyle MacLachlan in
David Lynch's
1984 film adaptation,
and by
Alec Newman in the
2000 ''Dune'' miniseries and its
2003 sequel.
The character is played by
Timothée Chalamet in the 2021
Denis Villeneuve
Denis Villeneuve (; born October 3, 1967) is a Canadian filmmaker. He is a four-time recipient of the Canadian Screen Award (formerly Genie Award) for Best Direction, winning for '' Maelström'' in 2001, '' Polytechnique'' in 2009, '' Incendie ...
film ''
Dune
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''.
Richard Corliss of ''
Time
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'' notes that "MacLachlan, 25, grows impressively in the role; his features, soft and spoiled at the beginning, take on a he-manly glamour once he assumes his mission." Lynch and producer
Raffaella De Laurentiis specifically wanted to cast an unknown actor in the role of Paul, and began a nationwide search. Casting scout Elizabeth Leusting found MacLachlan, who had been performing in the
Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Laura Fries of ''
Variety'' writes that "Newman, as the sour Paul, sticks to just one note".
Emmet Asher-Perrin of ''
Tor.com'' suggested that the choice to cast adult actor Newman as Paul is problematic because the character is written in the script as less mature and observant than he is in the source novel.
Chalamet received strong praise for his portrayal in the 2021 film. Ben Travis of ''
Empire
An empire is a "political unit" made up of several territories and peoples, "usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate peripheries". The center of the empire (sometimes referred to as the metropole) ex ...
'' wrote, "Among the uniformly excellent performances, Timothée Chalamet holds his own in his first blockbuster leading role. In a film this size, there's every chance he'd get swallowed up by the sandworm-like enormity of everything around him—but even against the colossal spectacle, the magnetic charisma he displayed in smaller indie fare shines through."
Merchandising
A line of ''Dune'' action figures from toy company
LJN was released to lackluster sales in 1984. Styled after David Lynch's film, the collection featured a figure of Paul, as well as other characters.
In October 2019,
Funko announced a "''Dune'' Classic" line of POP! vinyl figures, one of which would be Paul in a
stillsuit, styled after Lynch's film. Paul and Chani were both added to ''
Fortnite Battle Royale'' in October 2021.
Paul appears in the 1979
Avalon Hill board game
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Many board games feature a ...
''
Dune
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'', the 1984
Parker Brothers game ''
Dune
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'',
and the 1997
collectible card game ''
Dune
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''.
The character is also featured in the 1992
video game
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''
Dune
A dune is a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand. It typically takes the form of a mound, ridge, or hill. An area with dunes is called a dune system or a dune complex. A large dune complex is called a dune field, while broad, fl ...
'' from
Cryo Interactive/
Virgin Interactive,
and the 2001
3D video game ''
Frank Herbert's Dune'' by Cryo Interactive/
DreamCatcher Interactive.
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