The Chrysalids by John Wyndham: Essay Questionn

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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.

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Since the beginning of time, change has been essential for survival. Those species that evolved were the ones who continued living rather than those who died due to a lack of change. ‘Survival of the fittest’ as Darwin said, is imminent in our surroundings. The animal that will survive say a fatal winter will live on a another generation. This way the species will keep progressing, evolving, adapting to stay alive. In modern times it is not physical change that creates advantages rather technological change. Change is paramount to existence itself.

 

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