50+ Questions of Literary Enquiry

Freedom Trilogy Questions Part 1

What is the Freedom Trilogy about?

The Freedom Trilogy is basically about, as the title may suggest, freedom. The main character is basically, at the very beginning of the novel, he speaks out against the Dictator of the country he lives in, and is imprisoned. This imprisonment is completely unjust, because well, he had a right to speak his views. So eventually he would escape his imprisonment, and would eventually lead a rebellion against the Dictator, building up a small army to take him down and free the country. The actual story itself does not take place on our Earth, nor does it take place on Earth at all, it takes place on a fictional planet I’ve created, and as such, it is not bound by the normal rules and conventions of our world, so I can have a lot more fun with it. It’s not fantasy, but at the same time, you know, it’s not bound by our rules. Nor is it sci-fi, because it’s set in a medieval time. Basically, a lot of things are going to happen there. But mostly it’s about a guy trying to free his country from an evil dictator.

What are your favourite characters in the Freedom Trilogy?

My favourite characters would be the main nine characters; sorry, main twelve characters. Um, the main character himself develops this split personality, with three personalities existing. He encounters countless others who possess this similar disability, but three are going to be major characters and majorly develop the plot. So that’s why I’m saying twelve, OK? But it’s really just four, four main people with three personalities each. So in turn, each personality is like a different character.

So the main character himself, I like him because he’s the main character. He’s a very outspoken person, and doesn’t believe that anyone should be imprisoned, everyone should have a right to freedom of speech, and nobody should be told what to do, which reflects my own views, really.

And he has a sort of mentor character who he meets when he’s imprisoned. They develop a friendship, and they actually will be escaping the prison together, and they will somehow find a way to escape and build a little army. But he’s going to be like the second-in-command of the little army they create, but he is going to be a lot older, he’s pretty much going to be pretty much, like the father figure of the novel. I was planning on making the main character an orphan, so, you know.

The other two characters are going to be the leading women. They are sisters, OK, neither of them is going to be the love interest, I’ve decided on that, anyways, but both of them, their disability are a little bit different. Rather than having a split personality where all the personalities are even, like the other two people I’ve mentioned, one of the personalities is a bit stronger, and one of them is a bit weaker. For one of them, the weaker personality is the angelic one, while for the other one, it’s the demonic one. In all of the personalities, one is good, and one is more evil. It’s kind of how the personality works. But one of the sisters, they are twins, one of them has a more aggressive personality, because her evil side is more in control, while the other one has a more passive personality because her good side is more in control. But because of their differences, they both were rebelling against the leader of the country already, and they were both leading their rebel factions, their own rebel factions. They were actually working against each other more than together, which is what I’m going to concentrate on in the second novel, really, because their little fighting is going to cause a lot more trouble for the country than the good that they do. So, I like them really because they’re the leading ladies. They sort of take a joint third for control of the little army, and they both have some skills that are going to be pretty useful later on. So I like the conversations I can make with them because of the differences and the arguments they can have.

What is the world like in the Freedom Trilogy?

Now it’s set during the Medieval Era of this land that I’m making. I’m still arguing whether to go with medieval or have it more modern, but I think I’m going to have it a bit of a mix.

(Like steampunk?)

Sort of like that. The main capital city, where the novel starts and where it will finish, is going to be mostly a medieval sort of area, big castles, very old style buildings, and of course, a giant wall around the area. While the place where the main character’s going to be imprisoned, is going to be in a more modern day sort of area, big glass skyscrapers, facility. The whole country is really like that. There’s one town that is in one era of time, while there’s another that’s in a different era. It’s sort of a joke that I have there, because you’ll have people who act like in the medieval era, then you’ll have people who’ll act like they’re in modern day. So you’ll have the "How art thou?" and then you’ll have "How are ya?" You’ll have the really posh, old style speaking people, and then you’ll have the people who abbreviate everything. So I’ll actually have some fun with that, really, because it’ll be fun really just to mess around with that, with the world, and having it like that. But the town where the second book is going to take place, most of it is going to be set in sort of a Renaissance or Italian-like area, like it’s going to be a few towns, but it’s going to be like an Italian or European theme to them. Like one of them is going to be based on Renaissance Italy, while another is going to be like more of a German town, but you get the idea. It’s going to be very cultural. If it was made into a movie or a TV show, I imagine they’d have fun getting the various different nationalities and different accents. I think that would be fun if they made it into a movie or a TV show. Just to have so many different people with different accents working together in a single organization, it’s going to be fun.

But the actual world itself is a single island; there is no, like, group of islands. It is one single landmass, surrounded by water, with several rivers running through it. But it is a single landmass. Some people within the novel believe that there is land further out the sea, but sailors have been around the sea, multiple times, so they have found no such existence of any other landmass. So there is one single landmass, and it is ruled by one single [person]. He has no government, no special organization, one person, rules everything. But I will mention this; the land they live in has been through many, many revolutions, rebellions, etc. They have had virtually every possible form of leadership you could have. Democracy, dictatorship, Fascism, Communism, they’ve had everything. But the most recent one though, it’s just one person, rules everything, nobody else has any say in anything, no government, no anything. And if anyone says anything against the Dictator, they are locked up.