5/21/2023 0 Comments The fixed period trollopeAs the narrative progresses, Crasweller becomes less and less certain about the principles of the Fixed Period, but cannot back out due to his friendship with the President. President Neverbend selects Gabriel Crasweller, a close friend, as the first citizen of the colony to fulfil the demands of the Fixed Period Law as Trollope points out the irony is that he is in excellent health. During their sixty-seventh year all the citizens must go to a special college where they will be well looked after whilst they prepare for death, which must occur within the year. The Fixed Period for life is sixty-seven years. One of the major principles advocated and enacted by Neverbend is that of forced euthanasia within the state. The story is set in the future, in 1980.Ī group of elite New Zealanders have set up a colony on the island and have freed themselves from British sovereignty, determined to set up a fair and practical government. The Fixed Period is narrated in the first person by John Neverbend, and purports to be the memoirs of his time as the first President of Britannula, a fictional island near New Zealand.
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