Authority's failure to respond
- Mary Shelley's apocalypse novel The Last Man (1826), depicts the life of Lionel Verney, who becomes the last man after a devastating global plague. The book criticizes the institutional responses to the plague, showing the revolutionary utopianism and the in-fighting that breaks out among surviving groups before they also die.
- The short story, The Masque of the Red Death (1842), also shows the failures o authority figures to respond to a disaster appropriately.
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