The Consequences of Preventing Change In the Chrysalids by John Wyndham, the people of Waknuk try to protect against change. They constantly protect against it but they never think about the consequences of this action. The consequences of trying to protect against change are, no progress or improvement is made, people become closed-minded, and when the inevitable change happens it is more violent.
When people try to protect against change they make no progress or improvement in their technology because for progress to happen change needs to happen. In the Chrysalids, because even though Waknuk and the Sealanders have been recovering from the Tribulation from the same amount of time, the Sealanders are so much more advanced because they …show more content…
Change is inevitable, even if it is being prevented change will happen eventually. In the Chrysalids when David and his telepathic friends are discovered, the Waknuk people try to destroy them by finding out who all the telepathic people are to set out to destroy them as said in this quote from page 122. ‘Michael crowded in on her. “Hurry up, both of you, while there's time. It was a deliberate surprise. If they do know much about us, they'll have tried to time it to send a party for you, too — before you could I be warned. They were at Sally's and Katherine's almost simultaneously just over ten minutes ago. Get moving, quick!” They try multiple times to kill David, Petra, and Rosalind because they are different and a change to their definition of human. This shows that they violently try to stop any change that is occurring and they are resentful of David and his telepathic friends powers. In this quote a man tries to kill David, Petra and Rosalind ‘The man cannot have had a moment's doubt who we were, for even as he saw us he dropped his reins and snatched his bow from his shoulder. Before he had a shaft on the string we had loosed at him. The motion of the great-horse was unfamiliar, and we both shot wide. He did better. His arrow passed between us, skin-ning our horse's head.’ page
When people try to protect against change they make no progress or improvement in their technology because for progress to happen change needs to happen. In the Chrysalids, because even though Waknuk and the Sealanders have been recovering from the Tribulation from the same amount of time, the Sealanders are so much more advanced because they …show more content…
Change is inevitable, even if it is being prevented change will happen eventually. In the Chrysalids when David and his telepathic friends are discovered, the Waknuk people try to destroy them by finding out who all the telepathic people are to set out to destroy them as said in this quote from page 122. ‘Michael crowded in on her. “Hurry up, both of you, while there's time. It was a deliberate surprise. If they do know much about us, they'll have tried to time it to send a party for you, too — before you could I be warned. They were at Sally's and Katherine's almost simultaneously just over ten minutes ago. Get moving, quick!” They try multiple times to kill David, Petra, and Rosalind because they are different and a change to their definition of human. This shows that they violently try to stop any change that is occurring and they are resentful of David and his telepathic friends powers. In this quote a man tries to kill David, Petra and Rosalind ‘The man cannot have had a moment's doubt who we were, for even as he saw us he dropped his reins and snatched his bow from his shoulder. Before he had a shaft on the string we had loosed at him. The motion of the great-horse was unfamiliar, and we both shot wide. He did better. His arrow passed between us, skin-ning our horse's head.’ page