The End Of Eternity Analysis

The plot summary for the science fiction The End of Eternity is with a grand imaginative background but easy to read: Andrew Harlan, a protagonist, is Twissell's personal Technician.He extracted from Reality and into “Eternity”, a place that exists outside of time , altering Reality where necessary to control the flow of history with a kind of time machine called kettle, while the people recruited from various times throughout history for particular desired skills, from the 27th century, all the way up to the 30,000th and beyond, called eternals, can minimize human suffering.Harlan is assigned to teach a newcomer to the Eternity named Copper some specific knowledge under the instructions of Twissell.Meanwhile in another mission he meet Noÿs, a woman from 482 th century, and fell in love with her... The whole Sci-Fi mainly contains some paradox and concepts that are commonly accepted on time travel.It presents a set of rules, obeys those rules, and directly acknowledges the paradox it introduces.First, we can find that the author believed the cosmic pluralism.The Eternity, as the Sci-Fi implied, is another …show more content…
After knowing that Noÿs will not exist, or the Noÿs in the reality after the Change is not the same person, Harlan decided to break the laws and took her to the far future in the Eternity so that she would neither be affected nor found.As I mentioned, the Eternals make an effect on the Reality, and here comes with a paradox named Bootstrap Paradox.It means a change to the past is actually destined to happen in the past, and only because the change has already been carried out in the past, people at present would use time travel to go back to make the change really happened.Compare and contrast the paradox with another one called the predestination paradox, which argues that a future event is the cause of a past event, which in turn is the cause of the future event. Both events then exist in the timeline, and the whole