Frank Herbert built Paul Atreides to be attractive and charismatic for all the right reasons—so that when power corrupts his decisions, the audience is already emotionally captured. The narrator admits reading the books twice before realizing he was cheering for a tyrant. This is the central warning of Dune: charismatic leadership seduces observers into abandoning judgment.
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