Conspiracy Theory In Chrysalids By John Wyndam

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I think the reason why people have a tendency to find conspiracy theories about very famous people rather than about common people because it is an “eye-catching” to know more about famous vs common people. With the social media being around us, we are more eager to read and gossip more about and mostly questioning with using “who what where when & how”. Which is why people don’t tend to find theories about common people since to them they are just “ordinary” rather than “famous people”.

With Chrysalids, the writer John Wyndam has written many other novels and was known for one of the most outstanding success author. The conspiracy theory is antisemitic. The plan is “discriminating and judging against anyone and anything that was not part

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