O que Jessica sabia?
Jessica estava ciente da necessidade e da razão para ela ter uma filha, bem como do objetivo de longo prazo da Bene Gesserit de produzir o Kwisatz Haderach da linhagem Atreides.
Jessica não sabia que era filha do barão Harkonnen, presumivelmente para não precisar mentir para o duque sobre sua herança e evitar quaisquer objeções que pudesse ter de que sua filha se casasse tão perto parente como sobrinho do Barão.“So I had a son!” Jessica flared. And she knew she was being goaded into this anger deliberately.
“You were told to bear only daughters to the Atreides.”
“It meant so much to him,” Jessica pleaded.
“And you in your pride thought you could produce the Kwisatz Haderach!”Dune
He said: “But my mother tells me many Bene Gesserit of the schools don’t know their ancestry.”
“The genetic lines are always in our records,” she said. “Your mother knows that either she’s of Bene Gesserit descent or her stock was acceptable in itself.”
“Then why couldn’t she know who her parents are?”
“Some do . . . Many don’t. We might, for example, have wanted to breed her to a close relative to set up a dominant in some genetic trait. We have many reasons.”
O que o duque e as outras casas nobres sabiam?
Dadas as profundezas da antipatia do duque em relação aos Harkonnen, é improvável que ele estivesse ciente ou teria aprovado a parte mais visível do plano de curto prazo (se casar com uma filha Atreides ao herdeiro Harkonnen) embora ele fosse um homem extremamente pragmático e poderia, provavelmente, ter sido convencido.
“No.” She shrugged. “There’s good political reason–as long as my Duke remains unmarried some of the Great Houses can still hope for alliance. And . . . ” She sighed. “
Ele e seus colegas nobres obviamente desconheciam inteiramente o plano de longo prazo (e muito secreto) da BG para criar um super-humano capaz de transcender o tempo e governar a galáxia.
Because the Bene Gesserit operated for centuries behind the blind of a semi-mystic school while carrying on their selective breeding program among humans, we tend to award them with more status than they appear to deserve. Analysis of their “trial of fact” on the Arrakis Affair betrays the school’s profound ignorance of its own role