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John Wyndham "The Chrysalides"
Joseph Strorm, David’s father, was champion of purity in all forms of life and the leading figure in Waknuk. Joseph thought that anything different from the norm was truly incorrect and highly intolerable in the community. There were just two books where they took these thoughts from- the Bible and the Nicholson’s Repentances. As it says in Nicholson’s Repentances that the Norm is the will and the image of God and Devil is the father of Deviation. John Wyndham is making criticism about society that even after Nuclear War people are still dividing into groups. As it is in The Chrysalides, the norms and the mutants are in different groups. Mutants are animals or humans that have basic physical or mental alteration. David was frightened by the words in his own kitchen, in the Strorm household, “Accursed is the mutant in the sight of God and Man!” (p. 76). Because Joseph’s son has a peculiar telepathic ability that means that, he is a mutant too. If Joseph were to find out, this situation could be dangerous for David himself. …
John Wyndham is a science- fiction writer. His stories are set in the future and they are a vision of what the world could be. Actually, they are more then that. The Chrysalides, for example, is an implied criticism of our present day society. The author is implying that we, Old people, are also intolerant of any, everything different, and especially anyone different. In John Wyndham’s The Chrysalides, he conveys moral message through every main character differently. There are many criticisms that the author is making about the society: that people divide themselves into the groups, they too much think about how they act and they are not themselves, about what is normal, what is not? The author makes good point about women that for the hundreds of years they were nothing and there was no respect to them. In addition, Wyndham is critical about the relationship between the family members. How much they are ready to do for each other.
