Discuss the similarities/differences between the ideas of a community (inc. devised work) in The Yarn with The Chrysalids, The Children and The Crucible.

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        Discuss the similarities/differences between the ideas of a community (inc. devised work) in The Yarn with The Chrysalids, The Children and The Crucible.

Our stimulus extract from The Yarn (our most recent text) provided us with various themes that we had grown to be familiar with. After brainstorming The Yarn it came to our attention that it’s ambiguous and almost chilling storyline was similar to those of The Chrysalids, The Children and The Crucible.

 The theme of prejudice was evident throughout all of the texts and seemed to follow the exact same definition – “discrimination towards those different to you”. In The Yarn the “Dowser” family put themselves on the outside of their community, this could have been them being prejudice against the community and not wanting to be involved or fear of being disliked. By volunteering out of the community they did not allow the community to isolate them. The “Fringe” people in The Chrysalids were also cut off from the community again this was due to their differences and the society being scared of difference. In The Children although Joe was made to feel inferior by the new “snobs” that had moved into the estate he himself was prejudice against them because of his jealousy towards them. In The Crucible its puritan society managed to alienate certain members of the community by accusing them of being witches, this is a misinterpretation of people different from themselves. The discrimination could have been a portrayal of the actual feeling of envy within all of the communities.

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In my opinion all the communities from the texts seemed to feel threatened, The Crucible seemed to feel threatened by the dangers of the wilderness, the possible corruption influences of the Christian sects and a genuine fear of the devil. The Chrysalids society seemed to feel threatened by the danger of mutation; I think this is because mutation had led to a strict and ruthless definition of what constituted humanity in their community. I also think that segregation was inevitable to some extent due to how the atomic war had shattered civilization and left large parts of the world uninhabitable. ...

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