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8 pages in length. Heinlein's thematic implications abound throughout the pages of Stranger in a Strange Land, with the author tackling such prickly ideas as sexual freedom, institutional domination and organized religion. However, one of his least recognized themes provides a significantly deeper understanding of the human race as it relates to people being able to associate with one another; as such, the aspect of war being wholly foreign to Smith once he arrives on Earth illustrates the extent to which man's intrinsic nature is to constantly be at odds with himself. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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(c) November 2006 paper properly! I. INTRODUCTION Heinleins thematic implications abound throughout the pages of Stranger in a Strange Land,
with the author tackling such prickly ideas as sexual freedom (Welch 15), institutional domination and organized religion. However, one of his least recognized themes provides a significantly deeper understanding
of the human race as it relates to people being able to associate with one another; as such, the aspect of war being wholly foreign to Smith once he arrives
on Earth illustrates the extent to which mans intrinsic nature is to constantly be at odds with himself. "My failures so greatly out-number my successes that I wonder
if full grokking will show that I am on the wrong track - that this race must be split up, hating each other, fighting, constantly unhappy and at war even
with their own individual selves...simply to have that weeding out that every race must have" (Heinlein 423). II. HUMAN CONFLICT Smiths other-worldly wisdom provides a unique insight into the
relationships between and among good, evil, humanity and the absence of spiritual sense, a contingent concept when addressing the greater meanings of such esoteric ideas as war. Being that
there "isnt any Martian word for war" (Heinlein 223), Smiths inability to relate to mankinds thirst for constant conflict lends itself to the notion that Martians have overcome the unrelenting
urge to kill one other - if they ever even possessed the desire to do so - and have evolved far beyond what humans place at the center of their
very existence. Literary history demonstrates that good and evil do not exist merely in people who are good or evil but rather
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