The Chrysalids Summary

Villains are important to every story because they create conflict with one or more other characters, arousing interest and concern in the reader.  In The Chrysalids, David's father Joseph Stro... Read more

Change is a concept which, for many different people, means many different things. Often change is treated with fear or misgiving. Many other people simply choose to ignore the obvious presence of c... Read more

Absolute power corrupts. Power, the ability or capacity to exercise control and authority, can be a very dangerous thing and when something or someone controls all of it, problems can only be expected... Read more

"The Chrysalids" by John Wyndham is a science fiction novel written in 1955 and set around the 22nd century in a small town called Waknuk, in Labrador. This story is a bout a community where every per... Read more

Milton Saperstein once said that `there is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all'. This description fits the community of Waknuk... Read more

The first conflict that we will talk about is a Person vs. Self conflict in which Sophie must battle with her conscience on whether or not to tell David about her deviation of 6 toes. Sophie is hurt a... Read more

Our political system for our society is totalitarian because we feel that our society needs to be controlled by one person and his party. The totalitarian political system mobilizes entire populatio... Read more