Foretelling the Posthuman Apocalypse: A Transhumanist Study of the Scarlet Plague

The article highlights the calamitous nature of COVID- 19, the
pandemic that could partake the world as mentioned in the dystopian
novel The Scarlet Plague. The crux of the research is to focus on the
prophecy of Jack London and how the very human instinct could
construct a societal upheaval in the future. The incidents narrated by
London have undoubtedly erupted in its actual shape in the form of
Covid -19 for which the world was unprepared. The psychological
impact and the intuition of the human mind as told by Sigmund Freud
(id, Ego and Superego) has been used as a theory to validate the title
“Foretelling the Posthuman Apocalypse: A Transhumanist Study of
The Scarlet Plague”. It’s the humans who have the power to create,
control and consequently disrupt the cosmic energy in all modes. The
article attempts to ignite the primitive and instinctual human drives that
lead to goodness and evil in transhumanist point of view.