Rephrasing this post, since the mods apparently think this is some kind of homework question that I'm trying to crowdsource. However, I'm genuinely curious in what people think (and what's been written) about end-of-the-world as a setting, and why it's been so persistently popular through history.
From the Ragnarok myth to Mary Shelley to practically half of the modern YA section, we keep returning to stories of the end. What's so compelling about the apocalypse, from a narrative perspective?
by cedarvan