Interpersonal Conflict
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The conflict between Enlightenment's amoral technocratic worldview and the emotional, ethical responses of characters like Nyssa and Tegan
The conflict between Enlightenment's amoral technocratic worldview and the emotional, ethical responses of characters like Nyssa and Tegan
2 events in this arc
Events in This Arc
S19E7 · Four to Doomsday Part 3
Monarch entices with hollow promises
Monarch parades his twisted philosophy before Nyssa and Adric, draping his genocidal ambitions in the language of salvation. He dismisses distinctions between freedom and coercion, slavery and order, while demonstrating …
S19E7 · Four to Doomsday Part 3
Nyssa rejects Monarch’s false utopia
Monarch unveils his vision of a technologically perfected society, using his aides Enlightenment and Persuasion to present Earth’s replacement with robotic duplicates as humanity’s salvation. Adric is seduced by the …