Duke Leto
Two noble families, the Atreides and the Harkonnens, provide the principal characters of this book. The Atreides family is honest, good and kind; while the Harkonnen family is the exact opposite: dishonest, evil and decadently cruel.Duke Leto is head of the Atreides family until his treacherous death at the hands of the Harkonnens. Given the desert planet of Arrakis by the Galactic Emperor, he is at once put at the opposition of the Harkonnens, who had held Arrakis as their fief. At once his kindness becomes quite obvious, as he orders at the feast that every beggar who comes is to be given a whole cup of water. Later, while inspecting spice mining operations, he sacrifices the mining equipment in order to save the workers' lives when the operation is attacked by a sandworm. But it is this spirit of kindess and honesty that brings about his death, for he cannot believe that anyone would attack him treacherously. Yet it happens, for a Suk doctor, Yueh, has been brainwashed into Harkonnen service. But in his manner of killing Leto, Yueh tries to get the chief Harkonnen as well. However the plan goes wrong and only Leto dies, not the evil Harkonnen. Duke Leto's concubine, Lady Jessica, is his wife in all but title. As a
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Approximate Word count = 953
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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