Art has the ability to unify people by allowing them to connect emotionally and reminding them of their humanity. In Station Eleven, Mandel expresses this message through her portrayals of post-apocalyptic communities and the effect of the collapse of technology. The art in the novel centers around the Traveling Symphony, a group that travels the post-apocalypse world to spread art through their performances of Shakespearean plays and orchestral music.
The Traveling Symphony, a prominent group that has survived twenty years after the pandemic, is the prime example of a successful community in a post-apocalyptic environment. In Claire P. Curtis’s book Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract: We’ll Not Go Home Again, the author claims
The Traveling Symphony, a prominent group that has survived twenty years after the pandemic, is the prime example of a successful community in a post-apocalyptic environment. In Claire P. Curtis’s book Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Social Contract: We’ll Not Go Home Again, the author claims