.Fifth-Dimension Narrativity: Time, Love and Sacrifice in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar | ||||
| مجلة کلية الآداب بالوادي الجديد | ||||
| Volume 10, Issue 20, December 2024, Page 1328-1350 PDF (1.12 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: بحوث علمية محکمة | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/mkwn.2024.446262 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| نادر مصطفى حلمي | ||||
| Associate Professor of English Literature Department of English, Faculty of Education, Damanhur University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Fifth-dimension narrativity refers to stories whose events are shaped by time dilation, allowing characters in higher dimensions to move and interact across any point in time nonlinearly. This concept, explored in both physics and fiction, challenges our conventional understanding of time, proposing it as a tangible, manipulable dimension that enables simultaneous access to the past, present, and future. Just as physicists theoretically navigate time as a physical dimension, authors use this agency to distort or stretch narrative timelines, purposefully destabilizing linear progression. Christopher Nolan's Interstellar (2014) perfectly illustrates this scientific concept, employing the theoretical fifth dimension as a narrative tool to affirm the profound power of human love and sacrifice. This paper will introduce fifth-dimension narrativity as a narrative tool that powerfully portrays universal emotions like love and sacrifice when confronted with the ultimate adversary: time itself. The paper will also explain how love, in the movie, is presented not merely as an emotion, but as a fundamental, trans-dimensional force capable of stimulating ultimate sacrifices for survival, turning the fifth dimension into a stage where human connection dramatically overcomes physical limitations and shapes destiny. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Key words: Christopher Nolan; Fifth-Dimension Narrativity; Interstellar; Love; Sacrifice; Time Dilation | ||||
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