The Chrysalids: A Comparative Analysis

Ultimately, the human heart seeks comfort and familiarity. The great unknown strips away this feeling of safety, leading to a vulnerability that draws the true nature of a person into the harshness of reality. Unfamiliar environments, newly met strangers, the imminent and all-too-unpredictable future--these things generally incite feelings of insecurity and anxiety; for some, panic accompanies the thought of not having control. Some avoid matters of fear altogether, opting for a life softened with intentional ignorance. It is the fatal tendency of mankind to manipulate their troubles into trivial tasks that can easily be ignored and eventually forgotten, or at the very least, left to the side. Humanity thrives on acknowledging, promoting, and

Is it ever justified to kill a human being? During the novel The Chrysalids Joseph Strorm was able to sterilize and destroy deviants, and was considered a genocide. The Sealand only killed for the greater good of the species, to save the species from annihilation. The reasons why I agree with the Sealand’s philosophy are that the species must change, and the human race must evolve. The Waknuk society and the Fringe Folk were bound to die, for being less technologically advance. Finally the Sealand women was protecting the telepaths from the perusing Waknuk posse, and the Dangerous Fringe Folk.

Renewed perceptions of ourselves of the world we live in is significantly entailed by discovery. Discovery may be unplanned, unexpected and confronting, as efficaciously demonstrated in Robert Frost’s ‘Stopping by the Woods on a Snowing Evening’. The pessimistic tone, correlating with prospective suicide, accentuates his loss of identity and value, behaving as a foundation upon which self-discovery can be achieved and thus offer new understandings of ourselves and the world we live in. Furthermore, this notion is vehemently exhibited in James McTeigue’s film ‘V for Vendetta’. The imprisonment of Evey, an epiphanic moment, acts as a catalyst for self-discovery, renewing her perception of herself and the world she lives in. Discoveries can induce

Culture is people enacting a story. In the book, Ishmael, written by Daniel Quinn, a story of a young man, who is looking for something in life and comes upon an advertisement in a newspaper that there’s a teacher seeking a pupil to save the world. The world was not made for Man, thus the world does not belong to us and we can’t do whatever we want to because we do not own the world.

Having watched the three videos, I realized that there were a myriad of elements from the Six Stumbling Blocks. The six stumbling blocks she stated are assumption of similarities, language differences, nonverbal misinterpretations, tendency to evaluate, stress and culture shock. I believe intercultural communication is as complex and a severe issue as it is now. It is because we are never able to understand what “someone else” is, as Barna mentioned in the article. Although we assume we understand what someone else is thinking, we never know if we actually understand the concept, because there is no way to confirm that. This leads to preconception and stereotypes, and these are what cause another misunderstanding, and it creates this pessimistic

The sociological perspective I chose was the Conflict Theory Perspective. The Conflict Theory Perspective purposes that Conflict theorists would examine whatever situation at hand to see how it promotes social inequality. According to the textbook, Conflict theorists make it their mission to find the underlying existing strains that exist today amongst society. Conflict theory depends on the premise of three fundamental inferences. The first one is the fight for limited resources is universal to all relationships in society. The second one is that people or groups often benefit from that fight over resources more than others. Ultimately deeming inequality and power are just fundamentals of the system. The last part so that. People and situations change because of conflict and adversity, not because they conform or

It is clear that John Wyndham wrote The Chrysalids as a warning for today’s society, based on the comparisons that are drawn between the society of Waknuk, the Old People, Sea land, and our current society. More specifically, the current technological advancements, the existence of fundamentalist groups, and the slowly changing concept of “freedom of speech”.

Many things happen on a daily bases that can change our world around us. Some can affect our world more than others. We cannot stop it. It is how we live. That is life. Some make our world change for better and for worse. We do not make that decision though. The Boston Marathon bombing is an example of a horrific event that happened not to long ago that changed our world today. Just because this event occurred in a certain place does not mean it cannot affect anywhere other than Boston. Not only has it caused us to be more aware of terrorist attacks, but it has also changed a lot of Americans outlook on Muslim countries. This event has caused terrible memories for most Americans. Memories that will never be erased from our minds and better

The need for more prisons is not really a need. I am not in favor of the there being more prisons built in this world. Serving time in prison is supposed to be as unpleasant as possible. I am also not in favor of prisoners being mistreated by other inmates and or facility staff members. There are prison guards that often beat inmates and rape female inmates. These issues are also widely ignored. Here is California, we have one of the 10 worst prisons in America. Speaking of Pelican Bay State Prison. This prison located in Crescent City, California, has 3500 inmates. Out of the 3500 prisoners, 1500 of them are in solitary. Of that 1500 in solitary, 500 of them have been in solitary in excess of a decade. Are we sure, building more

With the fast development of modern society, people suffer from stress from their family and work, so they start to seek ways to release their pressure in their lives. Moreover, people usually unconsciously sums up their own experience in positive views . In the essay “Immune To Reality” by Daniel Gilbert, he refers to the idea of “psychological immune system”, a tendency of human to adjust their negative perspective to another one, when people are suffering from wrenching setback. The tenacity of human psyche and its ability of self-protection make people form walls to protect themselves. Although some people use their walls unintentionally, they rely on those walls to protect themselves from adversity and to support these untrue beliefs.

As a result of the groundbreaking Scientific Revolution society as a whole now has a better understanding of how the world works, which leads to many advancements in medicine, technology, and navigation. This movement challenged the scientific part of previous thought and sets the stage for the Enlightenment which will challenge political, social, and philosophical thought. Society is often in fear of change, because people become comfortable in old ways and don’t like the idea of having uncertainty in a new idea, like when a few years ago the iPhone was created. While the Millennial generation quickly became attached to the new device because of the fun games and quick access to an infinite amount of information, people of previous generations feared it because it is shown to decrease social skills. This relates to the Scientific Revolution because people were scared of drastic change, just as people in the

Long breaks are stealing students ' knowledge right from their hands and making teachers precisely planned lessons go to waste. When students come back from long breaks, such as summer, they can’t even remember what math is. This is because having more of these long breaks gives pupils a lengthy span of time to do nothing. At the beginning of the summer students are so excited when they can finally put on their swimsuits and hang out with their friends. As the summer goes on they start to get bored of sitting at home. Spread out shorter term breaks means that students will be able to retain more knowledge, low income families will be able to save more money, and overcrowding will have a solution.

People everywhere need to understand that there will always be bad people out there and people who want to hurt others. Knowing this, we all need to try to always be good and make the world better to create a balance between good and evil. The struggle between good and evil can be shown in many ways. An example for me is when I want to be lazy but in know that I have homework to be doing. Another example of the struggle between doing what’s right and doing what I want to do is when I

Some may consider humanity doing amazing, but there certainly are a countless number of mistakes that humankind has made. These people probably criticize humankind often. John Wyndham, is no exception to this. In his novel, The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham, Wyndham certainly answers this question by criticizing humankind by stating that, humans are arrogant, are afraid of the different and the idea of religious fundamentalism. His criticisms are clearly shown throughout the book.

Change is inescapable. No matter which stage one is in life, changes, both of little or major consequence, are bound to happen. As human beings, to fear the concept of change is deep-rooted in our nature. While majority deem change as a negative occasion, it is arguable to consider it as otherwise. With the texts: River and Tides by Thomas Riedelsheimer, “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka, and “Magic Island” by Cathy song, we are able to look at change in a positive manner and realize that change comes with multitude of opportunities that allow humans to live better lives and develop wellbeing. Change enables us grow as better individuals, improve our lives, and to start our lives anew.