The Chrysalids by John Wyndham: Essay Question
“The essential quality of life is living, the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution and we are a part of it”
Explain how the title is symbolic to the major theme of the novel.
A chrysalis; the time when a pupa lies swaddled in a cocoon, waiting for its last major progression in life, when it finally matures to adulthood.
Man also has this transformation. He plays his part as a guiltless boy but there comes a certain time for reflection and retrospection when that little boy through hardship and struggle, success and failure becomes an individual, an adult, a man.