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0TOPIC OF ESSAY: Disscuss John Wyndham's views of society's concern for normality in his book "The Chrysalids". Consider how it may or may not reflect our own behaviors or values. 02br
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00In his novel, “The Chrysalids,” John Wyndham’s views of society’s concern for normality are expressed through three separate societies, all with varying ideas and values for normality.00 00Of the three societies, the society of the Fringes, having an entire population composed of people that did not meet the requirements of their homeland’s idea of normality, shows the least amount of concern for the general idea of normality. The society of Sealand, representing the use of their concept of normality as a means of survival and supremacy, shows immense value for their concept of normality. The society showing the highest degree of concern for normality, the religious society of Waknuk, banishes, destroys or kills anything that does not fit their definition of normality. Each of these societies represents feelings or behaviors that have been felt or witnessed by society throughout the history of mankind. 02br
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00Through the society of the Fringes, Wyndham represents the concern for people to create their own definition of normality after being rejected or excluded from other concepts of normality. He displays, through the people of the Fringes, the manner in which rejected groups often develop hatred towards the idea of normality. These groups then begin to believe that they themselves, because they do not fit into a certain idea of normality, are not normal. In real life, Wyndham’s representation is shown through the development of subcultures, such as the gothic or hippie subcultures, through the rejection of a society’s behaviors or values. 02br
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00Wyndham depicts, through the society of Sealand, the use of a society’s concepts of normality as a means of to keep traits that are valued. The society of Sealand, founding itself by unification of members who possessed telepathic abilities, develops its population through the induction of new people, who also possess telepathic abilities, into their society. Within the story, the advantage of recruiting people who have telepathic abilities is shown most formidably when David first communicates with the Sealand women. She is able to easily convince him that he is normal by telling him “We are the New People – your kind of people” (pg. 156). This leads to his will to join the society, showing the power that concepts of normality can have over an individuals choices. As a result, the society’s concern for normality must be incredibly large, as, without normality within the society, its supremacy over the other races as well as its survival advantage would all cease to exist. 02br
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00The religiously zealous society of Waknuk represents Wyndham’s views of people’s obsession with their ideas of normality. The society’s obsession with it’s requirements for normality, as well as it’s methods of eliminating anything not meeting these requirements, show much relevance to the past behaviors of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong; believing that it was their duty to eliminate anyone or anything that stood in their way of creating a world in which their idea of normality reigned supreme. The society has a mindset, just as Hitler, Stalin and Zedong, that they are above everyone else, for, “As they reckon it, they, and only they, are in the true image; very well, then it follows that if the image 01i00is02i00 true, they themselves must be God” (pg. 154). 02br
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00The three separate societies each represent parts of Wyndham’s view of society’s concern for normality. His view of society’s need for normality may be perceived as a will for the members of a society to be accepted, to be able to keep their traits or values and to be from conformity to one idea of normality. These are some of the many values that mankind continually strives to hold onto. As we live in a world where “life is change” (pg.182), the concern for normality becomes a battle, not of meeting the values of others, but of oneself.02br
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