...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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...the novel The Chrysalids that I’ve read, which is written by John Wyndham, a fair number of people who are from Waknuk, trying to have a restraining order of changing. They are the strong believers of the true image of God who never want to break the rules. Their fear of changes which prevents them from progressing, being open-minded, and causing the tragic battles between them and the others. Initially, Waknuk people who are not progressing are one of the ways which result in being frightened to change. The group of deviational people has a feeling that they are in danger after they get the signal “the...
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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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...The Chrysalids is a science fiction novel written by John Wyndham about a civilization that has become intolerant to any kind of deviation with regards to a person’s appearance or their abilities. The reader is introduced into another world called Waknuk by the main character, David Strorm. David is a ten year old boy when the novel opens and a sixteen year old as it closes. David is a telepath and is part of an exclusive group who is able to communicate with others with similar telepathic abilities. Being in the society of Waknuk which believes in having no deviants and all members of their society to follow and failure to meet the standards would mean death, David and his telepathic friends have to conceal their identities. David is a young man living a double life to save his own. He is curious, trustworthy, and a resourceful. He questions everything he is told and ignores what he is supposed to lawfully abide by. David is curious and free-thinking. He doesn’t agree with the widely held belief that mutants are sinful and sent by the devil. He consistently questions the validity of The Definition of Man. David and his Uncle Axel want to prove to everyone in the world and all the people of Waknuk that everybody does not have to look the same or act the same or be the same in every way. Also due to his curious nature, David is the one to discover Sophie and her secret. He throws question after question at Sophie when they first meet, “’What’s your name?”(page 7) and...
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...Survival of the fittest is a 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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...The Chrysalids-Literary Luminary 1. “When my father was a young man, a woman who bore a child that wasn't in the image was whipped for it. If she bore three out of the image she was uncertified, outlawed and sold. It made them careful about their purity and their prayers. My father reckoned there was a lot less trouble with mutants on account of it, and when there were any, they were burnt like other deviations.”(Wyndham,88). I have appointed this quote because this shows Old Jacob’s anger on how deviations are being regulated in Waknuk. He talks about how the government is not being stricter with the deviations in modern day Waknuk. “Government regulations made by a lot of snivelling, weak-hearted, weak-witted babblers in the East. That’s what the trouble is. A lot of namby-pamby politicians, and churchmen who ought to know better too.”(88). The quote I have chosen contains crucial information because Old Jacob is describing how Waknuk used to be, as well as mentioning how they would treat deviations/mutants as well as women back then such as “they...
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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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...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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