The New Wilderness

Who is Baby Madeline?

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Madeline, Bea’s stillborn baby, is a symbol of fatality. She represents the novel’s reality: humankind is doomed as children cannot survive in the City where no doctors specialize in new life. Even in the Wilderness, new life is fated to die, as evidenced by Madeline being born dead.