The Children of Men by P.D. James is a dystopian novel that takes place in a world where humans are no longer able to conceive children. Since the year 1995 all humans have become infertile and although they are required to receive tests to figure out why this has occurred there is no official cause to the epidemic. The protagonist of the novel, Theodore “Theo” Faron, is an academic who specializes in History, and teaches at the undergraduate level and he used to work for the government. Since he is in an academic setting, Theo does have collogues that seem to take a scientific approach to the issue, and he has also dealt with the governments ongoing belief that science will fix this situation. Although it is entirely possible that this issue has been brought on by a biological or environmental issue, it seems as though if this was the case they would have figured it out in the 25 years since the last child was born, especially considering that everyone that is of child bearing age and is healthy enough to conceive a child are tested. There seems to be another reason that this has happened, a higher power could have forced this to happen so that they can punish the human race, for all of their wrong doings.
