Paragraph on the Chrisalids

eyes in the huge creatures standing twenty-six hands at the shoulder, he knew they were wrong.” (Wyndham 36) This demonstrates that Mr. Strorm is playing the role of God in society. Even though the government has approved the Great-Horses as non-deviants Joseph still believes that he is correct and intends that the government is not doing their work accurately. “God never made horses this size. The government cannot have approved them.” (Wyndham 36) Mr. Strorm’s words suggest that he knows what size God made horses; in other words he knows what God thinks and the rules that God has set. But in reality the only rules he knows are the rules in the Repentenances. This is how obsession with power has corrupted him into a narrow-minded person. Joseph got extremely ferocious when he was told the reason why the horses were passed. “One of those brutes could do the work of two maybe three ordinary horses and for less than double the feed of one. There is good profit there, a good incentive to get them passed-” (Wyndham 3) This verifies that Joseph is jealous of Angus because both of them are rivals and now Angus was an advantage to step it up with the horses. Therefore, arrogant pride has also turned him into a narrow minded man. When David came back home in the morning from Sophie’s house because she was leaving the town with her family and David slept at her house for the night; his heartless father did not care: where he was all night, if he ate anything, or if he was hurt. All Joseph cared about was if David damaged his reputation by talking to a deviated girl. “Who was this child-this Blasphemy you were with yesterday.” (Wyndham 51) This signifies that the father has no humanity left inside of him. So, arrogant pride has caused this man to become heartless. After the inspector came Joseph decided to get the truth out David by torturing him. “I will deal with this. The boy is lying... Go to your room... My father followed, picking up a whip that table as he came.” (Wyndham 51) This signifies that Mr. Strorm can go through any height to get information even if it means to beat his own. This is how obsession with power has made Joseph heartless too.