What is the main idea of rise of the planet of the apes?

Answer 1

The lesson is that there is a curse which goes with being the highest form of life on a planet. It is an arrogance which says that no other life can possibly be higher. The human astronaut knows this belief is false, and so does the audience, but the apes will not believe it. The arrogance of the apes is a metaphor for human arrogance.

Answer 2

In the year 2029, aboard the United States Air Force space station Oberon, Leo Davidson works closely with primates who are trained for space missions. His favorite simian subject is a chimpanzee named Pericles. With a fatal electromagnetic storm approaching the station, a small space pod piloted by Pericles is used to probe the storm. Pericles' pod heads into the storm and disappears. Against his commanding officer's orders, Leo takes a second pod and goes in pursuit of Pericles. Entering the storm, Leo loses contact with the Oberon and crashes on a planet in the year 3002. He discovers that the world is ruled by humanoid apes who can speak human language and treat human beings like animals.

Leo comes across a female chimpanzee named Ari, who protests the awful treatment humans receive. Ari decides to buy Leo and a female slave named Daena to have them work as servants in the house of her father, Senator Sandar. Leo escapes his cage and frees other humans. Ari sees them, but Leo manages to convince Ari to join their cause. Leo forms a human rebellion against the apes and develops a love triangle with Ari and Daena. General Thade and Colonel Attar march ape warriors in pursuit of the humans. Leo discovers Calima (the temple of "Simos"), a forbidden but holy site for the apes.

Calima turns out to be the remains of the Oberon, his former space station, which has crashed on the planet's surface and looks ancient (the name Calima coming from the sign "CAution LIve aniMAls", the relevant letters being the only ones not covered in dust). According to the computer logs, the station has been there for hundreds of years. Leo deduces that when he entered the vortex he was pushed forward in time, while the Oberon, searching after him, was not, crashing on the planet long before he did.

The Oberon's log reveals that the apes on board, led by Simos, organized a mutiny and took control of the vessel after it crashed. The human and ape survivors of the struggle left the ship and their descendants are the people Leo has encountered since landing. A battle ensues between the humans and the apes. A familiar vehicle descends from the sky and is identified immediately by Leo. It is the pod piloted by Pericles, the chimp astronaut. Pericles was pushed forward in time as Leo was, and had just now found his way to the planet. When Pericles lands, the apes interpret his landing as the return arrival of Simos, the first ape, who is their god. They bow, and hostilities between humans and apes disappear.

General Thade chases Leo into the Oberon, where he attacks Pericles. Leo traps Thade in the pilot's deck and is last seen huddled under a control panel, still alive. Leo decides it is time for him to leave the Planet of the Apes, after he says goodbye to Ari and kisses Daena. Leo climbs aboard Pericles' undamaged pod and uses it to travel back in time through the same electromagnetic storm. Leo crashes in what appears to be Washington, D.C. on Earth in 2029. He looks up to see the Lincoln Memorial is now a monument in honor of General Thade. A swarm of ape police officers descend on the confused Leo, who is left to wonder what Thade has done to this world.

Answer 3

There are a number of movies about the Planet of the Apes, which is a planet depicted as being ruled by intelligent apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, etc.) while human beings on that planet are treated as lower animals, who are effectively enslaved by the apes. The latest movie in the series, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, shows how this situation originally came about. It can be described as a prequel.

Answer 4

The theme of the book is around how other people are both similar and unlike you.

The apes represent a culture that believes it is (and has always been) superior. However, in learning more about them, the reader understands how similar the apes are to the reader itself.

There is also a time travel element about what the future could hold and how that future looks similar (and still different) from our own past.

Answer 5

Man wipes out his species by war and apes rise to take man's place.

Answer 6

Rise of the Planet of the Apes is a story about technology going awry. By testing various "treatments" on various apes, the scientists end up unleashing devastating consequences.