“Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.” -Ronald Reagan. Waknuk is a town built on a single belief, purity. Consequently anything found to be impure is destroyed without question, without remorse, whether it be animal, plant or human being nothing is spared. Even if there is speculation or debate about whether there is a deviation the subject will be culled just to be sure. Instead of handling their issues peacefully would rather simply kill off all their problems. John Wyndham's novel The Chrysalids shows the dire consequences of going against the ideas of a closed society illustrated with conflict and setting.
Firstly John Wyndham's novel The Chrysalids shows the dire consequences of going …show more content…
This second example comes from the end of the book at a time where the protagonists believe all of their troubles to be over. After the Zealand woman incapacitates and kills all other characters in that scene the protagonists question her ethics. In response the sealant woman claims “for ours is a superior variant, and we are only just beginning” (196) the group had left Waknuk due to people there not accepting their telepathic abilities. David and Rosalind believed their troubles to be over when they got to Zealand but after hearing this come out of their “saviors” mouth the begin to believe that perhaps they left a corrupt society in search of an even more corrupt one. Not only does the Zealand Woman believe their variation of humanity to be stronger and more powerful than all others, she believes that they will only get stronger over time. This means that the Zealanders have well known plans for the future to assert dominance in some way over other groups around them. The Zealand Woman says the people that she killed were lesser people because they could not “think-together” and so must be culled. However if very few people in a community are telepathic, that means the Zealanders plan on culling most of the populations of other
Firstly John Wyndham's novel The Chrysalids shows the dire consequences of going …show more content…
This second example comes from the end of the book at a time where the protagonists believe all of their troubles to be over. After the Zealand woman incapacitates and kills all other characters in that scene the protagonists question her ethics. In response the sealant woman claims “for ours is a superior variant, and we are only just beginning” (196) the group had left Waknuk due to people there not accepting their telepathic abilities. David and Rosalind believed their troubles to be over when they got to Zealand but after hearing this come out of their “saviors” mouth the begin to believe that perhaps they left a corrupt society in search of an even more corrupt one. Not only does the Zealand Woman believe their variation of humanity to be stronger and more powerful than all others, she believes that they will only get stronger over time. This means that the Zealanders have well known plans for the future to assert dominance in some way over other groups around them. The Zealand Woman says the people that she killed were lesser people because they could not “think-together” and so must be culled. However if very few people in a community are telepathic, that means the Zealanders plan on culling most of the populations of other