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The Man in the High Castle

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The Man in the High Castle	comment	The Man in the High Castle, published in 1962, is not only one of the defining works of Philip K. Dick's career, but also one of the seminal Alternate History novels. The novel, which won the Hugo Award, goes through the looking glass into a then-contemporary United States. After the assassination of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, the USA did not embargo Imperial Japan over her occupation of China and so stayed out of World War II. Free China fell and, invaded in two theatres, the USSR was eventually defeated. With all of Eurasia's resources at their disposal Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan went on to defeat the Commonwealth and, many years down the track, occupy the Americas. By the time the novel begins Imperial Japan has occupied the west coast of the USA, Nazi Germany has made a puppet state out of the east, and both superpowers have fallen into a Space Cold War paralleling the Real Life one between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.As is standard for Dick's stories there are no true heroes, just an ensemble of ordinary schlubs trying to make a living for themselves: Frank Frink, a metalworker who makes fake American kitsch popular with the Japanese; Robert Childan, a prominent seller of the aforementioned Americana; Mr. Tagomi, a ranking Japanese official and regular customer of Childan's; Juliana Frink, Frank's ex-wife in the Rocky Mountain States (a neutral buffer-zone between east and west) who becomes engrossed in a mysterious book depicting an alternate universe where the Axis forces lost; and Mr. Baynes, allegedly a Swedish businessman, who is coming to meet Mr. Tagomi with a dire warning.But you come for the fascist dystopia, and you end up staying for the Taoism. This book was one of Dick's first to explore eastern mysticism, and marked a turning point away from his earlier, mostly secular anti-fascist novels. In this alternate world the I-Ching is as common as the phone book, and most of the characters rely on sampling the winds of destiny to determine their every move. And to the reader's omniscient eye, the more they cross paths, searching for something truthful in a world of fake kitsch and fake identities, the more the connections between them and their actions becomes apparent.A Live-Action Adaptation premiered on Amazon Prime in 2015. Please put tropes associated with the series on that page.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_14e41a53	type	A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
The Man in the High Castle / int_14e41a53	comment	A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Joe Cinnadella claims to be an Italian truck driver, but is actually a Swiss agent intending to kill Hawthorne Abendsen.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_17640aa8	type	The Anti-Nihilist
The Man in the High Castle / int_17640aa8	comment	The Anti-Nihilist: After a book's worth of uncertainty and a brush with death Frank decides to live his life and make his art. Doesn't matter if it all ends tomorrow.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Man in the High Castle / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The High Castle was the fortified home of Hawthorne Abendsen, the author of the book within a book The Grasshopper Lies Heavy
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The Man in the High Castle / int_19944e8f	type	Terraform
The Man in the High Castle / int_19944e8f	comment	Terraform: The Nazis have drained much of the Mediterranean Sea and turned it into arable farmland. There's also mention of them launching space exploration and establishing colonies on Mars and Venus (but bear in mind that in 1962, when the book was written, it was not yet known that those planets were as inhospitable as they are).
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The Man in the High Castle / int_19fc58a2	type	A Lighter Shade of Black
The Man in the High Castle / int_19fc58a2	comment	A Lighter Shade of Black: Imperial Japan keeps its old ways, but their distant colonial rule is at least fairly negligent and it's nothing compared to what the Nazis are doing in their empire.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_1ba09c9d	type	Human Resources
The Man in the High Castle / int_1ba09c9d	comment	Human Resources: Most of the African population is used for this. There's descriptions of African tribes being turned into "thousands of chemical heaps". And a disquieting reference to lighters made from human bone.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The Man in the High Castle / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Not just for the actual characters, but also applies for the book-within-a-book The Grasshopper Lies Heavy — an incredibly racist United Kingdom ends up winning the Cold War and conquering the world. Of course, compared to the one they live in, the characters view the one in the novel as paradise. Similarly, the divide between Nazi-occupied territories and Japanese-occupied territories reflect this divide; while the Japanese are certainly not nice to their subjects, they are on the whole far more humane, rational and sane than the Nazis are, who practically become Omnicidal Maniacs in their endless war to attain racial purity.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Man in the High Castle / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The "authentic" Colt replica.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_23e32a30	type	Genre Deconstruction
The Man in the High Castle / int_23e32a30	comment	Genre Deconstruction: The novel is held up as one of the quintessential examples of the Alternate History genre of SF, but it also examines alternate histories as a concept - especially what drives people to create them. The Book Within A Book, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, is an example of how Dick uses the setting to explore the idea of alternate history, as well as Mr. Tagomi accidentally travelling to a parallel universe at the book's climax. It should be noted that Dick was inspired to write the book after reading Ward Moore's 1953 book Bring the Jubilee, about a world in which the Confederacy won the American Civil War.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_28b2f93a	type	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil
The Man in the High Castle / int_28b2f93a	comment	Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: The Nazis have reinstated the enslavement of Africans in both Europe and the United States.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_28d73447	type	Regional Redecoration
The Man in the High Castle / int_28d73447	comment	Regional Redecoration: The Nazis performed a version of this with the Mediterranean. See Terraform below.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
The Man in the High Castle / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: Many of the characters criticize the ideas depicted in The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, considering it ridiculous that what they see as the plutocratic and morally decadent empires of America and Britain could ever have beaten the "superior" Axis nations and then made the world a better place. They're certain allied victory would've really lead to communism taking over. Of course, it's hard to blame them, given the kind of world they live in.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_31e92640	type	Japan Takes Over the World
The Man in the High Castle / int_31e92640	comment	Japan Takes Over the World: Not set in the future, but in an alternate 1960s in which Japan has defeated USA.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_3e8c87a3	type	Dated History
The Man in the High Castle / int_3e8c87a3	comment	Dated History: It's now known that intercontinental invasion of the United States by the Axis Powers would've required so many different factors to favor the Axis that it might as well have been physically impossible.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_3e8d9cd3	type	Historical Hero Upgrade
The Man in the High Castle / int_3e8d9cd3	comment	Historical Hero Upgrade: Imperial Japan. It's still an oppressive dystopia, but definitely not as bad as Nazi Germany; the Japanese characters (Mr Tagomi, the Kasoura couple, General Tedeki) are also treated much more sympathetically than the German characters. Much of Imperial Japan's racism against non-Japanese is downplayed well below historical levels as well. However, it's possible that this is mainly a local thing. After twenty years of living in their newly conquered territories, it is quite likely that the Japanese living in America would have picked up aspects of their new location and wards, as the British did in India. Chinese-Americans, though, are little more than slaves.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Man in the High Castle / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: While the protagonists do prevail, the resolutions of their plots aren't necessarily happy or certain. Tagomi successfully passes on the information about the Nazi plans for a nuclear strike and saves Frank from execution. However, he suffers a heart attack and it is left uncertain whether he survives or not. Baynes succeeds in warning the Japanese about the Nazi plans for a nuclear strike, but returns to Germany uncertain of whether Heydrich's antiwar faction will prevail or not. Frank is saved from execution by Tagomi and returns to work making jewelry. However, he's still living under a totalitarian government. Julianna finally meets Abendsen, the Man in the High Castle himself. She then consults the I Ching about the true purpose of the The Grasshopper Lies Heavy and only receives the cryptic answer that it conveys an "Inner Truth". Still unsure of what to do, Julianna wanders off into the night.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_41a3e267	type	Hidden in Plain Sight
The Man in the High Castle / int_41a3e267	comment	Hidden in Plain Sight: Many Jews that escaped extermination have undergone procedures to look more Aryan and continue to live among Nazi society undetected.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_41d5f145	type	Fluffy the Terrible
The Man in the High Castle / int_41d5f145	comment	Fluffy the Terrible: The secret German operation to destroy Japan with nuclear weapons is codenamed "Operation Dandelion". This is a reference to the planned Nazi operation in Real Life to invade the British Isles, which was Operation Sealion.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
The Man in the High Castle / int_4482e1ef	comment	Divided States of America: Following the Axis victory in World War II, the former United States is divided into three pieces. The name "United States of America" is reused for the Nazi-occupied east coast, while the Japanese-occupied west coast is now the Pacific States of America with its capital in Sacramento. Between the two lie the Rocky Mountain States, a buffer zone that neither power claims. It's also possible, though never made explicitly clear, that the South has separated as well, most likely as a Nazi puppet state.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
The Man in the High Castle / int_474a2a5e	comment	Cultural Posturing: Childan quietly relents living as a second-class citizen under Japanese rule, seeing their appropriation of American customs, and watches developments in Germany with envy.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Man in the High Castle / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "The basic purpose of Operation Dandelion is an enormous nuclear attack on the Home Islands, without advance warning of any kind." And also:
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The Man in the High Castle / int_588d766f	type	BlackAndGreyMorality
The Man in the High Castle / int_588d766f	comment	Black-and-Grey Morality: Life under Japanese occupation is pretty bad. Life under German occupation is hell on earth. Unless you are German.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
The Man in the High Castle / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: The SS, who are opposed to Goebbels becoming chancellor and nuking Japan and stage a coup against him.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
The Man in the High Castle / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: We never find out exactly what the Nazis did to Africa, as none of the characters like to think about it too hard. Whatever it was, the implication is that it makes genocide look like a serious understatement.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
The Man in the High Castle / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Juliana has a severe psychotic breakdown once she learns that Joe is actually a Nazi assassin sent to kill Abendson., culminating in her inadvertently slitting his throat with a razor and leaving him to die.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
The Man in the High Castle / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Philip K. Dick likes Japanese culture. A lot. He also appears to know a lot about metalworking, or at least did a lot of research into it. Subverted with the research he did into World War II and Nazi Germany, which — not entirely surprisingly — he found profoundly depressing and soul-draining. To the point where he decided not to write a sequel he'd been toying with purely because he couldn't bring himself to go back to that particular quagmire.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_697b5232	type	Those Wacky Nazis
The Man in the High Castle / int_697b5232	comment	Those Wacky Nazis: Not many of them appear in the story, but they're always lurking in the background.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_6f214508	type	Foreign Culture Fetish
The Man in the High Castle / int_6f214508	comment	Foreign Culture Fetish: The Japanese occupiers take a patronizing interest in American kitsch, as part of the book's inversion of 20th-century colonialism.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_722171e7	type	Straw Character
The Man in the High Castle / int_722171e7	comment	Straw Character: Childan is the only one shown to have disdain for the I Ching and is presented as a Jerkass as such.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
The Man in the High Castle / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: Some editions of the book have gone with.. interesting cover decisions. One paperback reprint sports a cover by the prolific artist Richard Powers which does at least feature a castle of sorts, a surrealistic blob looming in the middle of a red alien sea, while one Penguin edition has half-naked men knifing each other. The various international editions go in all sorts of crazy directions. Though since this is PKD we're talking about here, it all almost becomes appropriate.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_74e9a5b1	type	Scavenger World
The Man in the High Castle / int_74e9a5b1	comment	Scavenger World: Russia has been reduced to this by the Nazis. There are descriptions of the Slavs being rolled back to the Stone Age, now riding yaks and hunting with bow and arrow.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_768ae1c9	type	Les Collaborateurs
The Man in the High Castle / int_768ae1c9	comment	Les Collaborateurs: Robert Childan. He is intimidated by and subservient to the Japanese ruling class, while privately hating them and being contemptuous of them.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_76933235	type	Depopulation Bomb
The Man in the High Castle / int_76933235	comment	Depopulation Bomb: According to a comment by Frank, the world population is around two billion in 1962, compared to the 3 billion it reached by 1960 in our world. Considering who's in charge now, this shouldn't be surprising.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_7adc9fc6	type	Colonized Solar System
The Man in the High Castle / int_7adc9fc6	comment	Colonized Solar System: The Nazis are vastly outpacing the Japanese in space technology. Frank speculates that Germany will have the entire solar system under their thumb by the time the Japan gets their first spaceship off the ground.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_7cf2f728	type	Boomerang Bigot
The Man in the High Castle / int_7cf2f728	comment	Boomerang Bigot: Robert Childan, a white man with inferior social status who is racist towards the Japanese. While at the same time constantly emulating them, ingratiating himself with them, and even, according to the Foreword to some editions of the book, thinking like them.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Man in the High Castle / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Mr. Tagomi's moment of defiance involves telling the Nazi official exactly what he thinks of him and his entire culture.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_81ba7921	type	Snub by Omission
The Man in the High Castle / int_81ba7921	comment	Snub by Omission: Italy gets this treatment much of the time by the characters. While they control a small empire in the Middle east, the Italians don't have anywhere near the prominence that the Germans and Japanese have, and they're looked down on in Nazi-controlled territories due to their tanner skin. Joe often gushes about how great Italian culture and Mussolini's original brand of fascism are...only to turn around and write it off as a two-bit empire with a clown for a leader. Although considering he's actually Swiss, it makes sense.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
The Man in the High Castle / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: Par for the course with Philip K. Dick.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_82b48dc	type	Stupid Jetpack Hitler
The Man in the High Castle / int_82b48dc	comment	Stupid Jetpack Hitler: The Lufthansa rocket ships, which have mostly replaced airliners. Before those rockets, the Germans had already developed jet planes and nuclear bombs, and they're already far into space.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_8430699a	type	Alternate Universe
The Man in the High Castle / int_8430699a	comment	Alternate Universe: Aside from the book itself and the fictional book inside the book, near the end Tagomi concentrates on a piece of folk art so hard he literally dislodges himself from time and space. In a haze, he wanders into another universe where the whites treat him as a minor inconvenience and the Embarcadero Freeway has been built, heavily implying it's our own. The implication seems to be that the events of the novel take place in one of the awfuller worlds of The Multiverse.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_8be61ba9	type	Up the Real Rabbit Hole
The Man in the High Castle / int_8be61ba9	comment	Up the Real Rabbit Hole: Tagomi becomes unglued from his reality and travels into what appears to be ours for awhile before drifting back into the setting of the book. Additionally, Abendsen and Juliana find out from the I Ching in the final scene of the book that The Grasshopper is actually true and Germany and Japan really lost the war.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_8e69fee0	type	Double-Blind What-If
The Man in the High Castle / int_8e69fee0	comment	Double-Blind What-If: The Book Within a Book The Grasshopper Lies Heavy postulates a world where the Allies won the war, and predicts a Cold War occurring between the US and a dictatorial UK, instead of the USSR. This is likely the Trope Maker.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Man in the High Castle / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The way the U.S.A was divided between Germany and Japan (each invading country receiving one side, with a neutral area in the middle ruled by German security forces) is reminiscent of the way Poland was divided between Germany and Russia before Germany decided to betray them. This, combined with the name of Germany's plan (see Theme Naming below) serves as a massive hint to what the Nazi's true plans are. A Reich consulate to the Pacific States, frustrated after reading The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, contemplates having someone assassinate its writer, but decides it's not worth the trouble with the book already in print and him held up in a fortress. He relents, deciding someone higher up should take care of it. Turns out someone already has, which is why Joe is in the Rocky Mountain states.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_a7c904c3	type	America Won World War II
The Man in the High Castle / int_a7c904c3	comment	America Won World War II: Obviously, America doesn't win the war in this timeline, but the timeline's main point of divergence is Franklin Roosevelt's assassination, which meant that America stayed isolationist and didn't get involved in World War II, implying that the Allies never could have won the war without America's help.note Which is certainly true for Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist/Free China, which was completely dependent on American loans to survive after Soviet aid was withdrawn in 1941. US manpower also made an invasion of continental Europe by the British Commonwealth without too much use of non-white manpower or a WWI-style expenditure of blood possible. Finally, US lend-lease saved hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Soviet lives through various means - not least through the provision of food, which suffered after the Germans captured (and later razed when retreating) a third of the Soviet Union's farmland, the provision of combat vehicles in 1941-2 (when the obsolte tanks and fighters provided to the Soviets were literally better than nothing) and the provision of raw resources in 1944 (before liberated Soviet mines had been repaired). While defeat of the Soviet Union was far from guaranteed even if Japan joined the war against them, it was actually possible without American aid
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The Man in the High Castle / int_a86069f	comment	Although this was one of the first modern Alternate History stories, the actual alternate history aspects are often sidelined in favor of the author's exploration of Taoism and the nature of artifice, and it eschews directly portraying the high ranking Axis leadership and their political intrigue in favor of man on the street-style vignettes.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_a969c74a	type	Final Solution
The Man in the High Castle / int_a969c74a	comment	Final Solution: The Holocaust was completed in Europe. American 'Useless Mouths' (the disabled and elderly) are also disposed of. By 1962, the Nazis have extended their campaign to Africa.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
The Man in the High Castle / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: With all the characters, but especially Robert Childan. Deliberate, as they live in a world where the Nazis / Imperial Japanese won World War II and divided up the entire world between them, which would no doubt result in a drastic shifting in the dominant attitudes and cultural mores. This is done particularly cleverly with how The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, an AH-within-AH in which the Allies win WW2, is different from our own history. It's informed by the sensibilities of the author Abendsen, influenced by the Nazi-dominated world in which he lives, so it assumes that after the defeat of Germany the Cold War will be between the USA and the British Empire, as those subhuman Slavs in the USSR will never amount to anything. And in the end Britain wins the Cold War, because it is more racially pure than the USA and therefore superior.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_ab2ffd70	type	Foreign Ruling Class
The Man in the High Castle / int_ab2ffd70	comment	Foreign Ruling Class: America is split between the Japanese-controlled West Coast, the Nazi-occupied East Coast, and the Neutral Zone along the Rock Mountains. In both occupied areas, Japanese and Germans call the shots. Naturally, most all of the administration is done by sympathetic or indoctrinated Americans, but the attitudes held by German and Japanese in their mutual colonies is just that: like the imperialist colonizers of the past two centuries, who regard the "natives" as lower class (often subhuman, in the Nazis' case).
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The Man in the High Castle / int_b0fb2427	type	Bread and Circuses
The Man in the High Castle / int_b0fb2427	comment	Many alternate history tales portray a victorious Nazi Germany as the world's economic and technological superpower. In The Man in the High Castle, while many note that they've accomplished some impressive feats such as turning the Mediterranean into farmland and sending manned missions to Mars and Venus, the genocides, eradication of intellectuals, and mass slavery have been an economic catastrophe for Germany. Atomic power and their advanced tech has only barely been keeping them afloat, and the space missions are just Bread and Circuses as those in power try to sort out what to do.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_b3f77675	type	Grass Is Greener
The Man in the High Castle / int_b3f77675	comment	Grass Is Greener: Captain Wegener, caught in a power struggle among the Nazi leadership, laments the lack of a clear-cut Black-and-White Morality and longs for a world where good and evil are easy to recognize.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_b4fca546	type	Alternate History Wank
The Man in the High Castle / int_b4fca546	comment	Alternate History Wank: By modern standards of alternate-history storytelling, the Nazis and Japanese conquering the USA by 1947 is extremely unrealistic (even Hitler himself, who was notoriously idealistic to the point of delusion, thought conquering the USA would not be possible for the Germans until The '80s). This is because Dick did not have access to much of the data about WW2 that has become common knowledge since then but was still classified in The '60s when he wrote the novel. Interestingly, this trope is also used by the book-within-a-book The Grasshopper Lies Heavy. The aftermath of World War 2 in that story has Britain and America splitting the world instead, with the USSR being a nonentity. And the British empire, thanks to the authoritarian leadership of Churchill, would eventually beat the Americans. It could be that Dick realized the certain futility of what he was doing with the book itself, and so lampshaded it by introducing the book-within-a-book. It's also played for a certain amount of irony as well; notice how, aside from the Allies winning the war, almost the exact opposite of what Amendsen proposes as happening in The Grasshopper Lies Heavy happened in the actual world. It was the Soviet Union, not Britain, that became America's post-war Cold War opponent. Far from ruling Britain like a warlord, Churchill was kicked out of office barely two months after Germany's defeat. Far from the British Empire getting stronger and stronger, his replacements began the process of dismantling it. And so on.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Man in the High Castle / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: As you might expect, quite a few shots are taken at Nazis and their ideology. The characters calling them everything from cynics who blindly march to their orders without faith, to incestuous fairies so obsessed with purity that they're lusting after their own mothers, and delusional psychopaths with massively-inflated egos who would rather bring about their own destruction than let history decide it for them.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_b6c94487	type	Invaded States of America
The Man in the High Castle / int_b6c94487	comment	Invaded States of America: What has become of the United States. Only a nominally neutral buffer state in the Rocky Mountains remains, which exists only on the sufferance of Germany and Japan.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
The Man in the High Castle / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: Well... it's a Philip K. Dick novel. Philip K. Dick liked Mind Screwiness and playing games with the nature of reality. So yeah. The ending where Juliana walks away from Abendsen's house, which seems to take place in "our" universe. The novel suggests that the characters are living in an illusion they can't break out from. However, it also suggests that the "real" world that the characters can't see is the world of The Grasshopper Lies Heavy — which would mean that the world the reader is living in is also an illusion the reader can't break out from...
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The Man in the High Castle / int_c10da874	type	The '80s
The Man in the High Castle / int_c10da874	comment	By modern standards of alternate-history storytelling, the Nazis and Japanese conquering the USA by 1947 is extremely unrealistic (even Hitler himself, who was notoriously idealistic to the point of delusion, thought conquering the USA would not be possible for the Germans until The '80s). This is because Dick did not have access to much of the data about WW2 that has become common knowledge since then but was still classified in The '60s when he wrote the novel.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
The Man in the High Castle / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: The Grasshopper Lies Heavy.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_d5a060a8	type	Interchangeable Asian Cultures
The Man in the High Castle / int_d5a060a8	comment	Interchangeable Asian Cultures: Dick was lambasted by his Japanese translator for confusing "inferior" Chinese culture (Taoism, Confucianism, the I-Ching) with Japanese culture. The I-Ching at least gets lampshaded by Chidan during one of his internal monologues, where he notes that the book the Japanese have imposed on America isn't even a Japanese one.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
The Man in the High Castle / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: Nazi Germany, with their victory in the war, are able to achieve new levels of evil they were never able to reach in history — including the genocide of the African continent's entire population and using the corpses as Human Resources.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_e263ae1	type	Inscrutable Oriental
The Man in the High Castle / int_e263ae1	comment	Inscrutable Oriental: A few of the Japanese characters, especially Mr. Tagomi, are described this way by white characters. Scenes written from the point of view of Japanese characters, particularly Mr. Tagomi, are written in a fragmented yet hyper-theoretical and erudite language, making the train of thought seem both unnatural and rather difficult to follow. Anything written from a German or American point of view (except the Japan-ified Childan) is written in straight prose.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_e698d371	type	Alternate-History Nazi Victory
The Man in the High Castle / int_e698d371	comment	Most Alternate-History Nazi Victory scenarios assume Adolf Hitler would always be the revered founding father of the Third Reich. The Man in the High Castle, on the other hand, deconstructs it—in 1962, aged 73, Hitler is still alive, but in a lunatic asylum, as even the Nazis have realised he's insane and rotten inside. This is part of the crapsackiness of the scenario—the entire modern world is built upon Hitler's dream, and no-one wants to admit that it was a mad nightmare.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_e8dcd1c0	type	Four Lines, All Waiting
The Man in the High Castle / int_e8dcd1c0	comment	Four Lines, All Waiting: The book is composed of separate simultaneous subplots, with occasional crossover.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
The Man in the High Castle / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License – Geography: Project Farmland, the draining of the Mediterranean by the Nazis, would have produced anything but. The sea basin would have become a salt desert and essentially an extension of the Sahara, while Europe would be drier and colder as a result of changes in the local climate. Meanwhile, all that water would have to go somewhere and would be deposited in the rest of the world's oceans, raising global sea levels by several meters. It's worth noting that this idea was likely based on Herman Sörgel's idea for Atlantropa, which would have involved draining the Mediterranean to open up new land for colonization. However, he only wanted to lower it by a few hundred meters, not dry it out completely.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_eec329f5	type	Lesser of Two Evils
The Man in the High Castle / int_eec329f5	comment	Lesser of Two Evils: At least some factions of the Nazi Party are depicted as more reasonable than the leadership, and oppose its genocidal plans such as wiping out the Japanese. And that reasonable faction is Heydrich and the SS, who already are genocidal maniacs in their own right. Faced with the Sadistic Choice of either supporting the SS rise to power or watching his homeland be exterminated, Mr. Tagomi has a bit of a Heroic BSoD moment.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_f0e85546	type	Unbuilt Trope
The Man in the High Castle / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: Most Alternate-History Nazi Victory scenarios assume Adolf Hitler would always be the revered founding father of the Third Reich. The Man in the High Castle, on the other hand, deconstructs it—in 1962, aged 73, Hitler is still alive, but in a lunatic asylum, as even the Nazis have realised he's insane and rotten inside. This is part of the crapsackiness of the scenario—the entire modern world is built upon Hitler's dream, and no-one wants to admit that it was a mad nightmare. Although this was one of the first modern Alternate History stories, the actual alternate history aspects are often sidelined in favor of the author's exploration of Taoism and the nature of artifice, and it eschews directly portraying the high ranking Axis leadership and their political intrigue in favor of man on the street-style vignettes. Many alternate history tales portray a victorious Nazi Germany as the world's economic and technological superpower. In The Man in the High Castle, while many note that they've accomplished some impressive feats such as turning the Mediterranean into farmland and sending manned missions to Mars and Venus, the genocides, eradication of intellectuals, and mass slavery have been an economic catastrophe for Germany. Atomic power and their advanced tech has only barely been keeping them afloat, and the space missions are just Bread and Circuses as those in power try to sort out what to do.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_f9c17447	type	The Remnant
The Man in the High Castle / int_f9c17447	comment	The Remnant: The only survivors of Europe's Slavic population now exist in reservations in Siberia, where they're living in a Scavenger World.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
The Man in the High Castle / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: "Operation Dandelion", which is a nuclear attack on Japan, evokes the name of "Operation Sealion", the planned Nazi invasion of Britain which really happened in this history. In real life, the Nazis were notorious for using overly obvious code names.
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The Man in the High Castle / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
The Man in the High Castle / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Dick did a lot of research for this novel. Reading so much about Nazi and Japanese atrocities made him so depressed that it very nearly cost him his sanity. It is thought by some scholars that Dick's drug abuse problems were partially spurred by the research he did for the novel.
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