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    Aldous Huxley‚ the author of Brave New World‚ and John Wyndham‚ the writer of The Chrysalids and serves as the thematic relation between the two writers. In these texts‚ both authors use the ideals of human philosophy to justify that the perfect society cannot exist while driving single-mindedly towards a utopian society‚ for it is destined to lead to dystopia. This is a result of several factors present in The Chrysalids and Brave New World. Firstly‚ since perfection has no allowance for error‚ a society

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    discriminated in our society today for the way they look‚ talk and their religious views. Discrimination is shown in The Kite Runner ‚written by Khaled Hosseini and The Chrysalids ‚written by John Wyndham. Hassan‚ one of the main characters of The Kite Runner is treated like an animal for the way he looks and his religious views. In The Chrysalids‚ the main character David Storm is considered a “mutant” for being able to communicate with his mind to other people with the same power. Once the people of Waknuk

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    very interesting use of language‚ and is thus useful and educational for Year Two students to critically analyze. Currently‚ the Year Twos are studying The Chrysalids‚ which carries various themes such as the discrimination of various communities in society. This happens to be a common theme in both The Time Machine and The Chrysalids‚ with The Time

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    “A mother’s love is selfless.” With reference to one or more characters in The Chrysalids‚ evaluate whether this statement is true. On the surface‚ several of the women in The Chrysalids appear to be devoted mothers who prove the statement true. Recalling Aunt Harriet and Martie Wender’s actions‚ David “[wonders] how many mothers there might be who [are] turning a blind eye towards matters that [do] not actually infringe the Definition of the True Image – and perhaps to things that [do] infringe

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    The Chrysalids Character Sketch of David (Rough copy) David Strorm is the main Character in The Chrysalids. He is a ten year old boy who is left handed and has telepathy‚ in a very strict religious society. David has a special power he shares with a group of friends. David comes from a community which despises anything different from what is normal‚ and where his religiously zealous father Joseph Strorm constantly takes the rules regarding deviations too far. Three character traits that David

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    As you like it Act 1 Scene 3 Solved Contextual Question Rosalind: The duke my father loved his father dearly. Celia: Doth it therefore ensue that you should love his son dearly? By this kind of chase‚ I should hate him‚ for my father hated his father dearly; yet I hate not Orlando. Rosalind: N‚ faith‚ hate him not‚ for my sake. Celia: Why should I not? Doth he not deserve well? i) What inconvenience has Orlando suffered on account of being the son of Sir Rowland? Orlando has

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    featuring characters who flee to the Forest of Arden in order to take refuge from the societal constraints of city life. The leading female characters‚ Rosalind and Celia‚ flee to Arden after Duke Frederick‚ Celia’s father‚ banishes Rosalind from the kingdom; like Rosalind’s father‚ Duke Senior‚ Rosalind is condemned to live in banishment. Rosalind and Celia decide to disguise themselves as Ganymede and Aliena‚ a gentleman and a feeble woman‚ concealing their true gender and class identities. Jean

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    between Rosalind and Orlando calls into question the conventional wisdom about men’s and women’s gender roles and challenges our preconceptions about these roles in courtship‚ erotic love‚ and beyond. At the heart of this courtship is a very complex ambiguity which it is difficult fully to appreciate without a production to refer to. But here we have a man (the actor) playing a woman (Rosalind)‚ who has dressed herself up as a man (Ganymede)‚ and who is pretending to be a woman (Rosalind) in the

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    scene begins in the forest with Rosalind and Jaques. He tells Rosalind the he prefers to be sad because that’s how he views the world. Rosalind tells him she rather be with someone that’s happy then travel and be depressed. Orlando shows up an hour late to meet with Rosalind who is still disguised as Ganymede. She tells him he isn’t in love with Rosalind if not he wouldn’t have been late. Orlando says if Rosalind rejects his love then he would most likely die. Rosalind and Orlando then get pretend to

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    himself. Oliver deceives Charles into believing Orlando will use foul means to defeat Charles and as such Charles swears to repay Orlando in that he will kill him. Scene 2 3. Celia promises to Rosalind that upon the death of her father she will give the throne to Rosalind. Celia also warns Rosalind against being melancholy; she speaks of passing the time pleasurably with all‚ however to only actually fall in love with pure intentions. 4. It would appear that Touchstone is attempting to point

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