Deviations In The Chrysalids

‘Mythread’ this artwork comes from Australian artist Vernon Ah Kee. Vernon Ah Kee comes from the Kuku Yalanji, Waanyi, Yidinyji, Gugu Yimithirr and Kokoberrin North Queensland. He lives and works in Brisbane. In the most of Vernon Ah Kee’ artworks, he use the white and black as his artwork’ s main color tone, and use sketch as his main approach. Through these ways, he tries to illustrate the history, which is happened in last century to racism and violence against indigenous peoples in Australia in his artwork.

Waknuk is David’s hometown in the story “The Chrysalids”. The village is located in central Labrador. It is a small agricultural community which lies in the west of Labrador. They have a maritime climate, being remotely tropical, without extreme heat. There tend to be a vast amount of forest cover with many fields making up most of the landscape. The people of Newf and Labrador are the only humans who retained the pre-Tribulation phenotype. The only other known civilizations are vague and coloured by religious dogma. The Theocracy run government follows the Bible and the Repentances as a means of guidelines. Run off of the fear of God Himself, the people survive by keeping their race in the True Image. They do this by having inspectors which

A major topic in John Wyndham’s novel The Chrysalids is fear. While, trying desperately to protect the community from what is unknown and also from the unorthodox ways of the Fringes, this attempt of protection has initiated the growth of an uneducated society. “But what’s got them so agitated about us is nothing shows. We’ve been living among them for nearly twenty years and they didn’t suspect it. We could pass for normal anywhere.”(Wyndham 131) In this quote “them” is referring to members of the Waknuk community, explaining why the discovery of Petra, David and Rosalind’s telepathic powers have unsettled everyone. Blasphemies that cannot be seen physically can easily be passed off as “normal” which unleashed a lingering sense of uncertainty

This particular artwork is an appropriation of the rather majestic painting ‘North- East view from the northern top of Mount Kosciusko’ by Eugene von Guerard, produced in 1863. Tillers has re-contextualised the work and given it added value for the present time. ‘Mt Analogue’ explores ideas of authorship and originality through his use of appropriation. He has

Sumayyah- Betrayal and loyalty those are two strong words that might have affected us some time in our life. The terms betrayal and loyalty are also relatable when we started our novel the Chrysalids by John Wyndham. In the novel the author shows the concept of betrayal and loyalty as the ultimate result of poor relationships.

Them V.S Us: Similarities and differences between our society and John Wyndhams Waknuk society. The town of Waknuk has many flaws, as we can see, but our society isn't perfect, either. Just by reading John Wyndhams, " The Chrysalids" you can easily pick up on the similarities and differences that can compare to our society, but getting to read all about them without having to flip through your book one million times is so much easier. Now, lets talk about David's dream.

In 1955, John Wyndham saw tremendous errors in the way of humanity. Now he must’ve been a very insightful man because he saw problems that would be relevant for many years to come; problems that still exist today. John Wyndham wrote “The Chrysalids” as a warning to today’s society. He did this by using the three different societies to showcase the pros and cons of the three main types of government in the world, showing us that people who are unable to adapt in an ever changing world will face massive setbacks, and finally, he uses todays world as a warning to the characters in the story.

“Life is change,” is one of the main messages in the chrysalids, by John Wyndham. Despite this, the characters in the novel do not try to change the society they live in. David, Sophie and the people in the telepathic group do not make an effort for waknuk to be different for others.

“‘She was competent, decisive, self-reliant; perhaps she intimidated them, for before long they drifted their attentions elsewhere’” (93).

For example, the brightest spot of this particular scene is the lamb on the table. It helps show its importance. There is also use of tenebrism in this work. On the far left and right are images of what appear to be Adam and Eve. There is a very sharp contrast of light and dark in this image.

The style of the cartoon can be described as a colourful cartoon, having some detail, as is the style of Mark Knight. The cartoon uses symbolism and visual metaphor to effectively communicate its message. The skull symbolises death, evil and danger. It also is a visual metaphor for the inhumane treatment of the asylum seekers and the poor conditions inside the detention centre. Furthermore the cartoon uses irony. Despite Manus island detention centre being an atrocious place with harsh conditions that are demonstrated by the barb wire, the body on the beach and the tents for living space, the cartoonist has showed Manus Island as an Island with white sand, palm trees and clear blue water. The purpose of this is display how these setting are usually associated with paradise but everything it is not as it should be. The cartoon uses negative and evocative language in the captioning such as long-term effects, detainees and murder to make the reader feel aggrieved and angry. It also uses the idiom, “Just the tip of the ice berg” to describe how Mr Barati’s death is a small part of something much larger. Such as abuse, acts of inhumanity and conditions worse than prisons. These techniques help construct a negative representation of the Manus island detention centre and the Australian Government’s policies towards asylum

The Chrysalids is a story set in the future. In the story, the “normal” people living in Waknuks, where David came from, were searching for the abnormal, or the ”mutants” and tried to kill them. Throughout the story, they were very eager to look for David and the rest of his telepathy group to investigate their special powers or even, to kill them. The reason of them really doing so was not because of that the telepathies were actually different, but is due to that they were scared that the telepathies would rule the place as they had special, extraordinary abilities, which “normal” people did not have. Other than that, normal people certainly did not deserve the rights to destroy mutants just because they were not shaped like God’s image,

In the first part of The Chrysalids a few words stood out to me. These are listed below: Rote which was used in the sentence "The commandments and precepts one learns as a child can be remembered by rote, but they mean little until there is example — and, even then, the example needs to be recognized. " The word "rote" actually means a process of memorization by using routine or repetition. Blasphemy which was used in the sentence "It is a blasphemy against the true Image of God, and hateful in the sight of God." Blasphemy means expression or disrespect for God or something sacred.

Change, the essential of life, it can be tranquility or turbulence, change has no set goal, it occurs all around us without us knowing. In the novel, The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham, change is the major problem in the society even though it is hidden in different aspects of life. To the society, change is their enemy, but it is themselves who are their enemies without knowing it. A society that fails to realize the inevitability of change will indubitably agonize.

There really is no true or perfect human image yet society these days expects people to look and act a certain way and people can be very cruel if a person does not meet these expectations. In the novel The Chrysalids written by John Wyndham and in reality presently, many human rights are violated and these rights will continue to be violated as long as humans exist and people continue to be cruel. In the town of Waknuk, certain people do not follow the human rights but instead they violate them. Throughout the novel, many characters rights are being violated such as the abuse and torture David faces, the intolerance towards woman like Sophie and Petra for being different.