The Chrysalids by John Wyndham is a science fiction novel which takes place in the future but the society of Waknuk resembles the beginning of the eighteenth century. Years after a nuclear war‚ radiation still contaminates large areas of the world outside of Waknuk. Waknuk is a community that follows a very rigid code of morality and religious beliefs based on The Bible and another book called Nicholson’s Repentances. The story focuses on the lives of a group of kids who can communicate telepathically
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A beautiful city‚ clustered with things from inside his head‚ things he had never seen before‚ was what the young boy dreamt of. At ten years old‚ David met Sophie‚ a special young girl‚ taking in every detail very clearly about her. David seemed to have an attitude much more mature than his years should have brought. This may have been because he didn’t feel he really had any one to truly confide in because his community was so narrow-minded whereas he wasn’t. David didn’t take others opinion as
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Define the terms UTOPIA and DYSTOPIA‚ and discuss whether The Chrysalids can be considered a Utopian or a Dystopian novel. One could describe the novel "The Chrysalids" as a dystopian novel as apposed to utopian. The town in which David and the rest of shape-thinkers live is deffinatly not a utopia as well as the new land to which they move‚ Sealand. The dictionary definition of utopia is an imaginary island with perfect social & political system‚ social and political paradise
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In the book The Chrysalids‚ people are destroyed for looking different from the norm. Differences seen in the book include extra toes‚ hairy bodies‚ long arms and legs. But is this alright? Should the world be ridded of people who are not like the majority of other people? The people who are considered normal in this book do not have good reason to destroy the mutants. One of the many inadequate reasons for destroying these people is that they believe that having an irregularity is hateful in the
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Change in the chrysalids is viewed as a part of life that cannot be avoided. The novel presents contrasting viewpoints on change‚ the Sealand woman who embraces change and the people of waknuk who vermently oppose it to illustrate Wyndham’s views on the importance of change The Sealand woman views change as an inevitable fact of life saying that "The essential quality of life is living ; the essential quality of living is change. Change is evolution and we are part of it." She reiterates Wyndham’s
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When people are forced to hold certain beliefs which they do not agree with‚ they often end up becoming hypocrites. Such is the case in The Chrysalids by John Wyndham; the citizens of the book’s setting‚ Waknuk‚ are forced to believe that any being which is not completely normal is a mutant‚ and should be removed from society. These stern beliefs force several citizens to become hypocrites. Waknuk is a very strict community‚ and its inhabitants are compelled to maintain numerous rigid beliefs
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There are plenty of themes present in the novel Chrysalids‚ but the one major theme being the prejudice against deviation. The author is saying that when we don’t fit in‚ terrible consequences will arise. Most are judged by appearance‚ but when David and the others abilities are discovered‚ they must still hide and appear to fit in. The purity and definition of man is arguably all the Waknuk people care about to be sure there are no deviations present. Sophie‚ her companions‚ and any imperfect new
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The Chrysalids‚ by John Wyndham Background: John Wyndham‚ born in 1903‚ tried more than four careers before starting to write short stories in 1925. The Chrysalids was written in 1955. Outline of the Book: Thousands of years after our time‚ the world faced something known as Tribulation‚ when civilization was almost completely wiped out and had to be started over‚ with new rules and laws. Humans beings born as "deviants"‚ missing an attribute that normal humans would have‚ is considered a
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The Chrysalids Essay In his novel‚ The Chrysalids‚ John Wyndham argues that in order to evolve‚ society must accept change. He does this by presenting the ideas: it’s destructive when society doesn’t change‚ society stagnates when it doesn’t change and differences are strengths. The book is set in a post nuclear war era and is about a boy called David who lives in a community of religious and genetic fundamentalists who are constantly on alert for any mutations. At first he doesn’t think much of
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The Chrysalids I have read and seen many good things in my life such as standing up to bullies and helping the poor. I have also seen bad things like people being discriminated for the colour of their skin or if they have something special about them. In John Wyndhams the Chrysalids its themes have similarities with the themes that I have seen in my life or what I’ve read about in past history. The main theme of the Chrysalids is the blind acceptance of traditions strict social conformity leads to
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