Different Points of View and Beliefs in "The Chrysalids"

Because people in families have something to do with blood and living together, their beliefs and actions are not the same. In some cases, generations of families see things alike, understand the same rules, and believe in the same ethical behavior. By contrast, in the novel "The Chrysalids", the hero David David Strorm and his father Joseph, the opponent has a very different role and contradictory view. Joseph Strom is a personality in the novel, he does not like embarrassment over his own faith.

Intolerance is one of the biggest themes of Chrysalids. So many characters can not accept each other's opinions and beliefs. For example, as Joseph Strome felt himself a devil created by God, he would destroy all kinds of "enemies" - even he wanted to oppose his children. In addition, Mr. Sealand is more respected than Joseph, but despises people who are not telepathy. She called others "inferior." After all, Fringes believes that the people of Waknuk are arrogant and can not be tolerated by any "ordinary" people. All groups of Chrysalids have reasons to explain why they are superior to other groups, resulting in intolerance and others' own definitions.

The style of The Chrysalids is not much different from other Wyndham novels, but the theme is completely different. Most of it covers the middle class of Britain in the middle of the 20th century, but the cocoon is the details incorporated into the future society. Unlike most of his novels, it is also a mature story. J. Francis Makomas reviewed the American version of the New York Times, and the "novel achievement" of the novel is in the role that the creative humans can understand, eventually these characters are more than human beings It is the thing of. " I will get good records and long memories. "

I like his book the most, The Chrysalids (1955) set a pattern for post apocalyptic novels. Unlike comfortable disasters, Norm was a generation after the nuclear war destroyed our civilization forever. It combines the theme of the most famous works of Wyndham and there is a calamity that actually brings a group of strange kids into a world that scares them, but that is a different and funny world. This story is spoken from a different point of view. One of children's opinion. (Wyndham and Spider Robinson believe telepathy will make people better, be very attractive and do not make themselves better ideas.)