SURVIVAL OF MARK WATNEY ON MARS AS A CHALLENGE IN THE SCIENCE FICTION THE MARTIAN
Keywords:
challenges, human ideology, resolving problems, science fiction, struggle, survivalAbstract
Science fiction reveals the world with full of imaginations and futuristic ideas about betterment of human life. While talking about the genre of science fiction, it shows courageousness and risk-taking challenge of the situation. Many science fictions have been laid on Mars by author’s imaginative power, creating life’s possibility, has raised human interest more day by day. It seems possible to place ourselves on Mars with the success of science. Working with the problems from the beginning NASA has always been trying to send mission on Mars. Sometimes they remained failure also still they sought continuously. This study aims to see survival of Mark Watney on Mars. How does Mark Watney struggle for life? And How does he resolve his problems on Mars? This fiction explores Mark Watney’s scientific ideas and also humanistic characteristics throughout. It also poses the responsibility of human being in account of the science when situation gets complicated while dealing with the mission that explores human ideology and morality. We include here study of Andy Weir’s science fiction The Martian, confronting challenges and risk-taking situation of Mark Watney.
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Weir, Andy. 2014. The Martian. Uk: Penguin Random House Publishing.
Robinson, Kim Stanley. Red Mars. Spectra,1992.