Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End

In Childhood's End, firstly the Overlords become highly controversial icons. Secondly they fall prey as tragic figures, stagnant, forever having no help from anywhere being submissive to a particular form of force having much intensity in termsof strength compared to themselves. The third change found was is that they have to be positioned in one way while other races get to the next step, passing the galaxy and even the universe with close-omnipotent powers, while the Overlords continue to revolve around in their spaceships. Childhood's End is in fact one of the most ironic sci fi novels of it's time, and there is no better symbol of such irony than the Overlords, who at first look so radically superior to humanity, but in reality envy it!

Other changes include, Clarke's discovery about the environment of the fine line by instigating the appearance of the Overlords, the sudden arrival of a muh wanted alien into the world who cleanses the world of inequality and conceives a utopia of calm and stability. In the awaken of reconstruction, Earth “by the measures of all previous ages, it was Utopia. Ignorance, infection, scarcity, and worry had effectively stopped to exist” (Clark, 1953). Inequality is the utmost source of unrest and is the origin for all the aforementioned maladies of society. The elimination of inequality very common throughout the story brings content and harmony to humanity and the outcome of its other aspects indicating “destruction of crime. It had become both pointless and impossible. When no one needs any thing, there is no issue in stealing” (Clark, 67). If one Imagines humanity on the verge of universal journey, space home wares primed to shatter the last barricade and open up a cosmos full of secret and wonder. Then envisage that in one instant ...