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One key aspect of the commentary present in Law Spurn is class struggle. Our protagonist,
Arbeit, is a hunter that barely scrapes by, much like most people in Law Spurn’s resource scarce
world, this is greatly contrasted with Teras, the villain, who lives in a luxurious location that
hasn’t been affected by the apocalypse. It is this contradiction that drives the narrative forward,
Teras’ class position makes him powerful and in turn allows him to abuse and subjugate people,
that abuse makes way for people to resist and that is how the resistance, represented by the
homeless man, are involved. They represent the result of the dialectical relationship between
the bourgeois class and the proletarian class, it is inevitable that a clash occurs. Arbiet’s role in
this, however, is largely unconscious, he doesn’t act on his own volition but is instead driven by
forces outside his control. That choice was deliberate as Arbeit is supposed to represent the
average person, who isn’t conscious of their class position, he is what is referred to as
lumpenproletariat. The homeless man, as the class conscious revolutionary guides Arbeit to
accomplish class goals that benefit him. In Proppian terms, the homeless man is the donor.

Such focus on class politics is a stable of sci-fi films such as BladeRunner (1982) and Star Wars
and that is for a reason, it is a precinct matter that plagues all aspects of current human
existence and that is why we decided to make it a prominent theme in Law Spurn, in countries
such as the UK where there hasn’t been a social service that hasn’t been affected by austerity
and wages not scaling to productivity or inflation, the working class is poorer than ever.

The lack of female characters is less deliberate but in such a world where societal structures are
destroyed, humanity may return to a more primitive way of thinking thereby excluding and
marginalizing women. Originally we had a more optimistic view of a post-apocalyptic world,
where the fall of the current structures made people become more collectivist as pre-modern
societies functioned in such a way, women had a significant role in those times beyond the
household and were an integral, proactive force. Regrettably, we didn’t have the chance to
explore that side and opted to go with a cynical, albeit, simpler path.