The Noah story
Noah is the sole survivor on our planet after a nuclear holocaust. To cope with his loneliness, he creates an imaginary companion, then a companion for his companion and finally an entire civilization - a world of illusion in which there is no reality but Noah, and no rules but those of the extinct world of his memory.
14 total · 11 major · 3 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| descent into madness | major | Noah gradually conjured up a little community of imaginary people to keep him company on a deserted island. He had gone totally bonkers by the end of it. |
| friendship | major | Friday became Noah's best and only friend on the deserted Pacific island. |
| hallucination of a non-existing person | major | Noah and his imaginary companion, Friday. Noah went on to conjure up a little coterie of imaginary friends, including Friday's main squeeze Friday-Anne. |
| hubris | major | Noah came to see himself as a god-like figure who presided over his community of imaginary people. |
| loneliness | major | Isolated on a Pacific island, and the sole survivor of a nuclear holocaust, Noah tried to keep up the routines of ordinary life, but he soon became lonely and conjured up an imaginary friend. |
| Messiah complex | major | Noah came to see himself as a god-like figure who presided over his community of imaginary people. There was a pointed scene which saw Noah hold two slabs of written law in a manner reminiscent of Moses holding the Ten Commandment slabs. A comparison was also drawn between Noah resembling Karl Marx. |
| military related work | major | We saw Noah being a commander to imaginary soldiers, like his imaginary friend Friday. Noah also routinely reminisced aloud over his glory days in the army. |
| nuclear holocaust | major | Noah was the sole survivor on Earth after a nuclear holocaust. |
| patriotism | major | Noah was patriotic about defending freedom and the Allied Forces down to the last bone in his body. |
| stranded on a deserted island | major | Noah found himself on a small, tropical island in the Pacific and he was living in a deserted Communist Chinese military outpost. |