Waiting for the Barbarians

In the novel, the magistrate learns many things but to me, one of the most important is by far that the barbarians are not really the barbarians. He sees that the special forces in the book can be seen as the barbaric characters in the book, and the barbarians are not as barbaric as they may seem at first. This reminds me of Brave New World, by Adolus Huxley. Throughout the book, it becomes apparent that the real savages are not the uncivilized people, but the ones that have been controlled and fixed into molds. The magistrates learns a new way to view people and what barbarian really means.

The second important thing that he learns is the difference between what is civilized and what is barbaric. The book describes civilization as having a government, when this disappears and becomes corrupt the civilized people become the barbarians. The civilized people almost give up their ability to call themselves civilized when they do this.=, showing that they might be the real barbarians.