This isn't as clear in the text of the first book as it could be. You mainly have the ghost of Pardot Keynes saying "No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero. "
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I would tend to agree. It's easy to go back and see his cynicism in the first book after reading Dune Messiah, but reading DM the first time was a hell of a shock for me in high school. Paul's like Hitler? He hates democracy? Fremen hate him? WTF???
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I don't want to go too hard in defending Dune (too much sentimental value), but I think it is there in the 1st book. The Fremen think he's a religious figure; we know he's just the result of a breeding program, and the religious stuff just comes from cynical BG propaganda.
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Strangely, that bit seems to be dropped or de-emphasized later on. Just about everything afterwards implies that he was just a kwisatz hadarach and not even the only one that was ever created.
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Some of that might also be the YA aspect of it. Daniel Ortberg (the good one) talked about this back on the Toast. Paul has feelings so big they could destroy the universe. He's not just the Kwisatz Hadarach - he's more than those adults predicted! http://the-toast.net/2014/12/12/three-adults-discuss-dune-seriously-length/ …
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Correction: I see Daniel Ortberg didn't write that bit, it was Dave Klion.
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Yes, that's absolutely what Dune is.
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I last went through the series as audiobook (feverish with pneumonia),& the puberty angle is *really* clear in that format.
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