...countless times. In John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids, children live in a theocracy where the image of God is strongly enforced and anything opposing the religion would be cast away. Therefore, these controversies between fact and fiction must have reshaped today’s society and the communities of the future (like the condition in The Chrysalids). Then, societies with powerful views and being scared of any change have greatly affected humanity and culture and will always linger. First of all, oppressive beliefs and strict policies have made people believe in insane ideas. For example, Waknuk’s community in The Chrysalids believe that to avoid God’s...
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...The title “The Chrysalids” signifies that it is a novel about change. The word “chrysalid” is related to the word “chrysalis”, which means “the form which butterflies, moths, and most other insects assume when they change from the state of larva or caterpillar and before they arrive at their winged or perfect state”. Or in simpler terms, it is the state where the caterpillar does most, if not all, of its change into a butterfly. Change can happen anywhere, whether it be in a physical form, such as the caterpillar turning into a butterfly, or evolution of entire species; a mental state, for instance a deeper comprehension of an emotion, or an education towards acceptance and understanding; or in a social environment, for example the abolishment of slavery and the non-discriminatory laws. Change is almost inevitable, fore it is the driving force of life. With out change life could not adapt to its surroundings and survive. If change were to stop, then life would become meaningless. The Earth would be the same if there was life with no change, than if there was no life at all. Generally when people ponder about the notion change, they think about a process where a thing transforms into a better version of itself. While change is usually associated with evolution, it can sometimes be the complete opposite. Change can happen for the worse, though it is seldom seen. With life comes change, and though in The Chrysalids some change is not for the better, character, environment...
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...Through out the book The Chrysalids there are many different types of relationships. The three main relationships are Friendship relationships, which play a very important role in the novel. Guidance relationships, which eventually ends up rescuing David, Sophie, and Rossialnd from their death, and last but not least negative relationships which cause death as well as family feuds. All of these relationships are what make the book so exciting and interesting Walknuk is a society in Newfoundland that has been hit by nuclear war because of the holocaust. Due to the nuclear wave, life in Walknuk has changed in many ways. People are discovering that they have telepathic powers and some people are born with a mutation. The people of Walknuk call these people (deviants). The people of Walnuk believe that God has sent tribulation upon them. So when anyone in Walknuk is born with a mutation they believe that it must be destroyed. In Walknuk if you are a deviant it is very important that you have friend that you can count on. One very strong friendship relationship in the book is between David and Sophie. Since the two meet at a very young age until the end of the book they were always looking out for each other. An example of this is when Sophie rescued Roseland and Petra from the fringe people so that they could escape and get rescued by the Zealand people. Another friendship relationship in the book is between David and Rosalind. David and Rosalind fall in love in the end of...
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...Power in Faith Joseph Strorm, a character in John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids exerts his power and control in a way to express his undying faith. Starting off, Joseph is the father of David and the son of Elias. Joseph is also known to be faithful to the rules taught to him by his father. Joseph displays his power and control in multiple ways. For example when David, “wishes upon the mutant” Joseph commands David in an angry manner to kneel down and pray. Joseph is also portrayed in using his power violently, “in the night, when the anguish which had followed my father's visit was somewhat abated” (27). In this quote Joseph uses physical force against David to show his power over him because David wishes to become the very thing his father...
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...concept that is inspired from the theory of natural selection which means that some living beings are better adapted to particular conditions which leads them to succeed in the long run. But in Chrysalids they won't let themselves evolve over generations to adapt to the changed conditions because the keep killing anything or anyone who is evolved. If it was to go on like that it would have caused the human beings to go extinct because they were adapting to changing conditions. The main reason why the waknuk society was bound to fail is due to the Image of God. It basically removes any chance of an evolution in the society of Waknuk. Anything that does not match up with the so called Image of God is...
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...In the book the chrysalids by John Wyndham I think that the concept of identity is very connected to the way the character's physical body is. For example it is connected because the citizens of waknuk judge whether people are "pure" by their physical body and if they find that they have any kind of abnormality they are considered impure and are treated like an abomination and sent to the Fringes. This goal of being pure goes as far as whenever a baby is born the baby is checked for any abnormalities or deviations and nobody can acknowledge that the baby even exists until the baby passes the inspection. But if the baby does not pass the inspection the baby is rejected and not let into the family. Also these teachings that being abnormal and having deviations means that you are defiling God's image and creation are taught to everyone at a young age and so it is imprinted in their minds that deviations are monsters made by Satan to defy God....
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...Microcultures in Canada A Comparative Approach Introduction Every society contains both a mainstream culture and many different subcultures. The mainstream culture is how one is identified as. However, microcultures consist of how we identify ourselves within the global mainstream culture. There are multitudes of ways to participate in a microculture. It could be along ethnic, religious lines, or even lifestyle. All these factors come into play with regards to the different aspects of microcultures. This paper will delve into all three types of microcultures; it will look at Vietnamese, Jewish, and Vegan cultures and compare them to mainstream Canadian culture. The subsequent comparative analysis aims at finding differences in an attempt to better understand and communicate more effectively, by clarifying the common misunderstandings that arise when communicating with different microcultures, whether in business or everyday life. Vietnamese Background/History/Evolution Representing one of the largest non-European sub-cultures in Canada, the Vietnamese community ranks 5th in terms of size and comprises just over 150,000 individuals. Concentrated in metropolitan areas, close to 60% of the population resides in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver or Calgary (Statistics Canada see Appendix B). Despite currently being a sizable group, this sub-culture was virtually non-existent prior to the Vietnamese war that took place between 1964 and 1975. It wasn't until the conflict arose...
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...JOHN WYNDHAM THE CHRYSALIDS 1 When I was quite small I would sometimes dream of a city — which was strange because it began before I even knew what a city was. But this city, clustered on the curve of a big blue bay, would come into my mind. I could see the streets, and the buildings that lined them, the waterfront, even boats in the harbour; yet, waking, I had never seen the sea, or a boat. ... And the buildings were quite unlike any I knew. The traffic in the streets was strange, carts running with no horses to pull them; and sometimes there were things in the sky, shiny fish-shaped things that certainly were not birds. Most often I would see this wonderful place by daylight, but occasionally it was by night when the lights lay like strings of glow-worms along the shore, and a few of them seemed to be sparks drifting on the water, or in the air. It was a beautiful, fascinating place, and once, when I was still young enough to know no better, I asked my eldest sister, Mary, where this lovely city could be. She shook her head, and told me that there was no such place — not now. But, perhaps, she suggested, I could somehow be dreaming about times long ago. Dreams were funny things, and there was no accounting for them; so it might be that what I was seeing was a bit of the world as it had been once upon a time — the wonderful world that the Old People had lived in; as it had been before God sent Tribulation. But after that she went on to warn me very seriously not to mention it...
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