2l – The Evil of the Daleks
The Evil of the Daleks
Its common in literature to look to one character in relation to another, to draw conclusions by looking at symmetry in a play – we only really understand Othello and Iago in relation to one another. If this is the case, then we learn more about the Daleks’ nature in this story than since their first appearance, and it is through Maxtible – he holds up a dramatic mirror to the Daleks, to the Emperor, and to whatever twisted genius created them, gave them “the Dalek factor”. Maxtible’s pursuit of the secrets of alchemy isn’t really motivated by Avaricious intent, or wealth – he’s a wealthy man already – but by the pursuit of a seemingly unobtainable, scientifically unproven intellectual goal, founded only in archaic mythology and antediluvian pseudo-science. A bit like Dalek genetics. Really, it’s a portrait of madness, of hell given human eyes.
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