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The Chrysalids

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The Chrysalids	comment	Warning: Spoilers Ahead!The Chrysalids is a Science Fiction novel written by John Wyndham, first published in 1955 and considered by many to be his masterpiece.Many centuries after a global nuclear apocalypse, northern Labrador and "Newf" are among the few places hospitable to human habitation, albeit very pre-industrial. Our story centers around the small farming community of Waknuk, ruled with an iron fist by fanatical Sinister Minister Joseph Strorm.The only document that has survived from the time of the "Old People" is the Bible, from which the current generation infer that "Tribulation" must have been a final, devastating judgement on human arrogance, a la the fall of Jerusalem. Taking this together with a later book called Repentances, this new society develops what they believe to be the immutable Definition of Man, and aims to rebuild the world accordingly in the True Image of God.In this theology born of ignorance and fear, any radiation-bred mutant (or "Deviation") — no matter how slightly abnormal — is interpreted as either an Offence (plants, lower animals) or, more horribly still, a Blasphemy: a human-shaped but soulless mockery of God's perfection sent by Satan to lure Man off the faint and narrow path to righteousness. They all must be ruthlessly rooted out and destroyed lest they contaminate the purity of Godly society. In the case of Blasphemies, there is just enough mercy that they are merely sterilized and banished (usually at birth) to the wild country known as the Fringes, to survive or not as they can.Against this backdrop our narrator, Joseph's son David, discovers along with several other children that they have a mutation that is not visible to the naked eye: they are able to communicate with each other by means of telepathy, or "thought-shapes". The story centers first on their efforts to conceal this ability, then their struggle to define it against what they and others understand as the Norm......and then, finally, on their efforts merely to defend themselves at all costs. Because as much as their society loathes the deviants they can see and thus control, the notion of ones they can't terrifies them into all-out racial war — a war which may only ultimately be winnable by a civilization still more ruthlessly determined to survive.The story was adapted for radio by the BBC in 1982, and for the stage in 1999.
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The Chrysalids / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
The Chrysalids / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Well, anyone in the supporting cast at least. There are ten telepaths at the story's outset and only the five with major roles — David, Rosalind, Petra, Rachel and Michael — survive to the end. Likewise several others close to David are killed or otherwise disappear.
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The Chrysalids / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
The Chrysalids / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Rosalind has one after being forced to shoot a man who was tracking her, David and Petra following the trio's flight from Waknuk.
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The Chrysalids / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
The Chrysalids / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Very much averted with David, who makes only the most token efforts at appeasing his father's beliefs and mostly stays out of sight whenever he can to avoid being assigned chores. He comments towards the end of the novel that he never really expected to inherit the family farm, even before being forced to flee into the Fringes (and given the fact that his father’s an absolute monster, David might not want to inherit the farm either.)
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The Chrysalids / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
The Chrysalids / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: David's mother Emily, based on her interactions with him. Rosalind is largely this way as well, even toward David her Love Interest at times.
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The Chrysalids / int_1df37537	type	Mutual Kill
The Chrysalids / int_1df37537	comment	Mutual Kill: Essentially what happens with Joseph and Gordon Storm.
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The Chrysalids / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
The Chrysalids / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: Downplayed with the Inspector. He's Affably Evil and clearly much more devoted to keeping his job than appeasing the fanatical Joseph Strorm, but it's implied he participated in the torture of Sally and Katherine later in the story.
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The Chrysalids / int_2139c878	type	Church Militant
The Chrysalids / int_2139c878	comment	Church Militant: Many of the preachers described in the story, but Joseph Strorm and his father (in flashback) are the prime examples.
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The Chrysalids / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The Chrysalids / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: If you're a 'deviant', this is the kindest possible description of the new Labrador.
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The Chrysalids / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Chrysalids / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Initially at least, the Inspector, who clearly isn't as fanatical as the community he's posted to.
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The Chrysalids / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
The Chrysalids / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: Not only the Bible, but also the Repentances, which together have given rise to "The Definition of Man", the immutable truth on which the new society rests.
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The Chrysalids / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
The Chrysalids / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: David gets this on two occasions, when he tries to defend Sophie from Alan and Rosalind from his uncle Gordon.
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The Chrysalids / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
The Chrysalids / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: Joseph Strorm joins one of the hunter bands seeking out David and Petra basically in order to do this.
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The Chrysalids / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
The Chrysalids / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Rosalind. She has developed a tough persona to survive and endure, but David sometimes senses the more sensitive "under-Rosalind" peeking through.
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The Chrysalids / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
The Chrysalids / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: The Sealanders may be more advanced and enlightened than Labrador society in many ways, but — as more than one critic has pointed out — the two peoples share a very similar willingness to ruthlessly destroy any threat to their established 'norm'. Lampshaded to some extent by the Sealand woman, who views the Waknuk posse riding after the telepaths as fighting against their own inevitable extinction in the face of a superior human variant, and muses that they, the 'think-together people', will have to do the same one day.
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The Chrysalids / int_30763ed8	type	Eternal English
The Chrysalids / int_30763ed8	comment	Eternal English: Despite having only the vaguest idea of the Old Ones' civilization, and no documents from it save the Bible (and that probably, from the internal evidence, the King James Version), human society of many centuries hence still sounds remarkably like 1950s Britain, with perhaps a bit of similarly-vintage American dime novel thrown in. The Sealanders have a noticeably odd pronunciation — presumably the descendant of the original New Zealand accent — but can otherwise make themselves understood to David and co. with no trouble.
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The Chrysalids / int_307a34f9	type	Radiation-Induced Superpowers
The Chrysalids / int_307a34f9	comment	Radiation-Induced Superpowers: Nuclear fallout can apparently give you Psychic Powers. To be fair, most of the other mutations that show up in the book are pretty realistic and many, like Sophie's extra toes are things that can occur naturally. In fact, it's entirely possible that so much time has passed since modern times that many "deviations" are a result of evolution simply taking its natural course.
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The Chrysalids / int_309b8806	type	Cursed with Awesome
The Chrysalids / int_309b8806	comment	Cursed with Awesome: Petra's telepathic ability is much stronger than that of the other main characters, especially for her age, and she's able to communicate with other telepaths over a distance of several thousand miles. Unfortunately, it first manifests when she's panicked and urgently compels the others to rush to her aid, and leads to the group's discovery the second time it happens. Even once she's trained and aware enough to control herself better, when she gets excited any nearby telepaths are stunned and "blinded" (the last scene is of her thus stunning the entire Sealand city).
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The Chrysalids / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
The Chrysalids / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: Several centuries at least; long enough for the extremities of the inhabited earth to be reclaimed from nuclear catastrophe.
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The Chrysalids / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Chrysalids / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: When David's little friend Sophie and her parents are captured, Joseph announces it triumphantly to the inspector with David still in the room — and then openly sneers when his ten-year-old son begins to cry.
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The Chrysalids / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
The Chrysalids / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: David starts the novel on the idealistic side, but eventually winds up toward the cynical. Rosalind is deliberately on the cynical side for the majority of the novel, but the very end of the story, she's allowing her idealistic side to show. Michael is unabashedly on the cynical side from the outset, as is the woman from Sealand. Near the end, pretty much everyone is flat-out cynical about their situation, little Petra being the only exception.
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The Chrysalids / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
The Chrysalids / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Sophie and her parents at the start of the novel. As they grow more aware of their difference from the norm, the telepathic group as well.
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The Chrysalids / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
The Chrysalids / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: David and the other telepaths are forced to this over the course of the novel. Rosalind goes so far as to deliberately construct a tough, cynical exterior to hide her fears.
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The Chrysalids / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
The Chrysalids / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: What all the telepaths struggle with for years after they become aware of their deviance. Articulated outright at one point thusly:
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The Chrysalids / int_3fca462c	type	Deus ex Machina
The Chrysalids / int_3fca462c	comment	Deus ex Machina: The arrival of the Sealand rescue party could be interpreted as literally this, given the descent of their shiny helicopter-esque transport at the height of the pre-industrial peoples' climactic battle. It's been foreshadowed throughout the latter part of the book, but they still actually show up at an awfully convenient moment.
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The Chrysalids / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Chrysalids / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: David, Rosalind and Petra are rescued by the Sealanders and taken to their shining city, where they will enjoy a safer, happier life in a much more advanced society. However, the as-yet-undiscovered Michael chooses to stay behind in Labrador to save his Love Interest Rachel, we discover that Sophia suffered a wretched life in the Fringes before she is shot in the final battle, Sally and Katherine are caught and tortured, Mark, another telepath, disappears, with his fate unknown and the casual indifference and clear sense of superiority the Sealanders display towards the non-telepaths suggest that, in some ways, they aren't that much better than the people of Labrador.
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The Chrysalids / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
The Chrysalids / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Of Sally and Katherine, in order to learn more about the telepaths. Just in case the reader has missed the wider implications to that point, we now learn that this is a society with no qualms about applying red-hot irons to an adolescent girl's feet.
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The Chrysalids / int_46189c48	type	Our Ancestors Are Superheroes
The Chrysalids / int_46189c48	comment	Our Ancestors Are Superheroes: Played with, given that current Labrador society has only the vaguest idea of technology (they do keep a basic steam engine around just as a sort of museum curiosity, being apparently totally uninterested in how it could be used). It's suggested the 'Old People' had superhuman intelligence, the power to move mountains at a whim, and could even fly. A companion rumor, first mentioned by Uncle Axel, holds that they could also communicate with each other over long distances — just like David & company.
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The Chrysalids / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
The Chrysalids / int_474a2a5e	comment	Cultural Posturing: The Sealanders are especially prone to disparaging any non-telepathic societies as "savage".
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The Chrysalids / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
The Chrysalids / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Most Blasphemies are discovered and hence banished to the Fringes as newborn babies by the people of Labrador, and any discovered as older children suffer the same fate. The Waknuk authorities searching for the telepaths also have no problem torturing Sally and Katherine in an attempt to find their location.
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The Chrysalids / int_483152c4	type	The Resenter
The Chrysalids / int_483152c4	comment	The Resenter: All the telepaths toward their powers, at some point. Anne goes so far as to try to 'stop' herself in order to marry a norm. Sophie becomes this toward Rosalind when the two meet later in the novel; not so much because she sees her as a rival for David and/or Gordon, but that Rosalind's untouched beauty — and presumed fertility — throw Sophie's sense of her own futile existence into sharp relief. Gordon is this toward his younger brother Joseph Strorm as well. He was banished to the Fringes as a child for having spider-like limbs, losing his rightful inheritance as the oldest son to Joseph.
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The Chrysalids / int_4852f325	type	I Just Want to Be Normal
The Chrysalids / int_4852f325	comment	I Just Want to Be Normal: Anne, after falling in love with a Norm. David also specifically prays this at one point, out of fear for himself arising from what he's witnessed happening to mutated crops and animals.
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The Chrysalids / int_4a0821b4	type	Archnemesis Dad
The Chrysalids / int_4a0821b4	comment	Archnemesis Dad: Joseph Strorm is a terrible father who physically and psychologically abuses David on a regular basis, and ultimately seeks to hunt him to the death upon discovering that he is a telepath. David works hard to protect his loved ones (Sophie and her parents, Rosalind, Petra and the other telepaths) from Joseph with varying degrees of success.
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The Chrysalids / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
The Chrysalids / int_4eaa9b84	comment	Author Tract: Several pages are given over to philosophic discourses on the nature of man and God as they relate to evolutionary change and growth.
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The Chrysalids / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Chrysalids / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The novel begins with David dreaming about a futuristic city and ends with he, Rosalind and Petra actually arriving there.
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The Chrysalids / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Chrysalids / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: The inspector. He's shown as an amiable, basically humane bureaucrat who strongly objects to Joseph Strorm's harsh inflexibility, and his treatment of David particularly. He lets David off with a warning for failing to report Sophie because Joseph has already punished his son with a severe whipping. However he's also an unimaginative man who never questions his mission; it's indicated that this is why he takes part in the relentless interrogation of the captured telepaths, leading to their possible deaths. Gordon Strorm also comes across as this, right up until he deliberately announces his intent to rape his nephew's fiancée (and, it's strongly hinted, is at least interested in his pre-adolescent niece).
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The Chrysalids / int_546e23f6	type	Evilutionary Biologist
The Chrysalids / int_546e23f6	comment	Evilutionary Biologist: An ironic step-sibling of this trope forms the basis of the novel. The primitive, theocratic society seeks to exterminate all mutants, whether plant, animal or human. While not Social Darwinists or scientists, the members of this culture are nevertheless striving to "restore" the purity of life on Earth, in an effort to get back into God's good graces.
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The Chrysalids / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
The Chrysalids / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Taken up to eleven and going both ways for the Norms and the Blasphemies.
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The Chrysalids / int_5860c090	type	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis
The Chrysalids / int_5860c090	comment	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: The inspector's early exchanges with Joseph have some humorous but deep set antagonism.
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The Chrysalids / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
The Chrysalids / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: The inspector sees himself as this to David. At least he’s more friendly than David’s own father.
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The Chrysalids / int_5bf25e11	type	Extra Digits
The Chrysalids / int_5bf25e11	comment	Extra Digits: Sophie has six toes on both her feet, which in the theology of the Sinister Minister Joseph Strorm, marks her as an inhuman Blasphemy created by Satan.
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The Chrysalids / int_5f6c6cc1	type	Can't Get Away with Nuthin'
The Chrysalids / int_5f6c6cc1	comment	Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Sophie has, for obvious reasons, been told never to let anyone apart from her parents see her feet. But, shortly after meeting David, she takes her shoe off. Admittedly, she was justified in doing so on that occasion as her foot had become stuck in a crack and there was no other way she could get free. However, she later removes her shoes to go paddling in a stream, leaves an incriminating footprint and is reported as a Blasphemy. Following an unsuccessful attempt to escape with her parents, she is forcibly sterilised and cast out into the Fringes.
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The Chrysalids / int_607d4ada	type	Run for the Border
The Chrysalids / int_607d4ada	comment	Run for the Border: David, Rosalind and Petra are forced to do this after being officially branded as outlaws from 'normal' human society.
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The Chrysalids / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
The Chrysalids / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: A heroic version. Uncle Axel deduces that Anne has told Alan about the group of telepaths, so he kills Alan in order to save the group from a very nasty situation that could result in all their deaths.
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The Chrysalids / int_68a5e1c3	type	Humans Are Psychic in the Future
The Chrysalids / int_68a5e1c3	comment	Humans Are Psychic in the Future: One of the classic examples; Sealand, strongly suggested to be mankind's only viable remaining civilization by story's end, is entirely composed of telepaths.
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The Chrysalids / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Aunt Harriet — her body is found in a river after Emily refuses to let her "borrow" the newborn Petra so her mutant baby, her third child, can be issued a normalcy certificate. And Anne, after David’s Uncle Axel murdered Alan to prevent him from exposing the other telepaths, including David.
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The Chrysalids / int_6e37c196	type	Once Done, Never Forgotten
The Chrysalids / int_6e37c196	comment	Once Done, Never Forgotten: Joseph Strorm once slew a neighbor's tailless cat as a Deviation, without waiting for the outcome of an appeal to the authorities. Then comes confirmation that there is in fact a recognized species of tailless catnote The Manx with a well-documented history. The inspector is fond of citing this embarrassing blot on Mr. Strorm's Knight Templar reputation.
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The Chrysalids / int_6ef09297	type	Masquerade
The Chrysalids / int_6ef09297	comment	Masquerade: David and the other telepaths, being physically unremarkable, are able to hide these powers from the 'normal' populace for a very long time.
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The Chrysalids / int_71bf37e3	type	Vigilante Militia
The Chrysalids / int_71bf37e3	comment	Vigilante Militia: There are unofficial militias in the protagonists' hometown who remain ready to defend their land and people by fighting off invaders from the Fringes, who kidnap people and steal crops ready to defend their land and people. Of course, the residents of the Fringes were cruelly exiled to the limits of the known habitable world by the community as a whole, and often by their own families) just for having birth defects, so the people who make up the militias don’t exactly have the moral high ground.
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The Chrysalids / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
The Chrysalids / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: Over the decades, this book has attracted way more than its share of this trope: Some older Penguin editions feature a bizarre-looking mutant on the cover with green skin, no mouth and lobster claws for hands. None of the mutants in the book look anything close to this. Another features the faces of three of the children superimposed over a futuristic city that looks like it is straight out of Blade Runner. While there is the futuristic city Sealand, it only appears at the very end and the story ends before they even get there; going off of this cover it's actually easy to get a ways into the book before you realize it takes place After the End in a small farming community with no technology whatsoever. One paperback edition depicts the main characters fleeing into the Fringes fairly accurately.. but tosses in a few small bird-dinosaur hybrids. Another went with showing the Sealander rescue-ship flying over the deadlands.. except it's a flying saucer instead of a fish-shaped helicopter. One gorily displays Petra's pony being killed by a wildcat, which actually happens, but is about as far from the main thrust of the novel as you can get. More than one edition features six-fingered hands, when only one pair of feet with extra digits appears in the book.
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The Chrysalids / int_819b6384	type	Sympathetic Murderer
The Chrysalids / int_819b6384	comment	Sympathetic Murderer: Uncle Axel murders Alan in order to save David, Rosalind, and the other telepaths from discovery and almost certain death.
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The Chrysalids / int_82b1fd4f	type	WorldHalfFull
The Chrysalids / int_82b1fd4f	comment	World Half Full: Despite living a world nearly irrevocably destroyed, David and his friends still end their journey on a note of hope for their future, and that of civilized humanity.
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The Chrysalids / int_8370a793	type	Mature Work, Child Protagonists
The Chrysalids / int_8370a793	comment	Mature Work, Child Protagonists: The main characters are all young children at the start of the story, and still only teenagers by the end - however, the novel involves a lot of extended philosophical ruminations regarding the true nature of humanity.
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The Chrysalids / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Chrysalids / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: We never do find out just what happened to Sophie's parents after they left Waknuk and were captured (although we can guess, concealing a mutant being a serious crime). We also don't find out what happened to Uncle Axel, or for that matter the rest of David and Rosalind's family. The fate of Sally and Mark, the telepaths who abruptly stop transmitting, is also left vague; the others assume they're dead, and we know Sally is at least deeply traumatized, but the concrete details are never given the reader.
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The Chrysalids / int_89631688	type	The Chosen One
The Chrysalids / int_89631688	comment	The Chosen One: Petra is basically this to the Sealand community, with such an extraordinarily strong telepathic power that they're willing to cross the world to retrieve her.
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The Chrysalids / int_89a17726	type	Spell My Name with an S
The Chrysalids / int_89a17726	comment	Spell My Name with an S: The main characters debate about whether Sealand's name should in fact start with an "S" or a "Z." The get confirmation that it's 'Z', but refer to 'Sealand' anyway as it makes more sense to them.
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The Chrysalids / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
The Chrysalids / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Rosalind's reaction when she's threatened with it is handled like this, with the normally entirely self-contained girl breaking down in hysterics at the thought of being violated by what she sees as a literal monster.
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The Chrysalids / int_8ed04a07	type	MisBlamed
The Chrysalids / int_8ed04a07	comment	Mis-blamed: An In-Universe example. After Anne’s husband, Alan, is found murdered Anne thinks that one of the other telepaths killed him since they were all opposed to her relationship with Alan, who was “normal” (and the one who exposed Sophie as a mutant). This is probably why she tries to expose the other telepaths when she kills herself. It was actually David’s uncle Axel who killed Alan.
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The Chrysalids / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Chrysalids / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Alan Erwin is specifically called out as this. Nobody's much upset when Joseph Strorm dies either, not even his children.
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The Chrysalids / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
The Chrysalids / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: David and Rosalind. Well, they're half-cousins, anyway.
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The Chrysalids / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Chrysalids / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: Joseph Strorm has been instrumental in getting numerous mutants banished to the Fringes. During the climactic final battle his mutant brother Gordon, likewise banished as a child, singles out Joseph in the crowd and shoots him dead. One could also argue that the fact that Joseph has four mutant children could be a form of karma since he’s such an extreme mutant-hater.
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The Chrysalids / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Chrysalids / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Joseph Strorm is the story's main villain, though he is a representation of the superstitious hatred and prejudice that is rife in Waknuk and would remain even in his absence.
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The Chrysalids / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
The Chrysalids / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: Joseph Strorm is killed by his own mutated brother Gordon.
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The Chrysalids / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
The Chrysalids / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: If crops are discovered to be Offences, the whole field will be ritually burned on a clear day. Old Jacob fondly remembers the days when aberrant humans were dealt with this way as well.
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The Chrysalids / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
The Chrysalids / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: One of the most famous extended meditations on the theme.
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The Chrysalids / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Chrysalids / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: David has a mysterious dream in the very first chapter, about — as he describes them — "carts driving without horses to pull them", fish-shaped machines flying, and shining cities with lots of lights; and he wonders if any such place really exists. When he asks his older sister, she suggests that it may be a description of what the world used to look like before Tribulation, then warns him not to tell anyone else about it. Of course, it later turns out it's not a dream...
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The Chrysalids / int_9e776765	type	Churchgoing Villain
The Chrysalids / int_9e776765	comment	Churchgoing Villain: Joseph Strorm is a religious fundamentalist and the Big Bad of the story. His father Elias Strorm also qualifies, with psycholigically abusing his wife into her grave being enough to peg him as a villain.
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The Chrysalids / int_9f970427	type	Secret-Keeper
The Chrysalids / int_9f970427	comment	Secret-Keeper: Sophie's parents and David's Uncle Axel hide knowledge about people with mutations, to the point Axel murders Alan to preserve it. To an extent, Aunt Harriet and Rosalind's mother (whose sad but unsurprised reaction showed that she knew why Rosalind was leaving even if she and Rosalind never discussed Rosalind's telepathy openly) leading David to wonder just how many other mothers might be out there willing to take chances for their slightly-abnormal offspring...
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The Chrysalids / int_a3a7c41	type	Black Sheep
The Chrysalids / int_a3a7c41	comment	Black Sheep: Aunt Harriet, after her ill-fated attempt to enlist the Strorms' help to save her mutant baby by switching her temporarily with perfect-seeming Petra. Although given the evil nature of David’s parents (especially Joseph), she might actually be closer to a White Sheep.
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The Chrysalids / int_a5a6d7b3	type	Mutants
The Chrysalids / int_a5a6d7b3	comment	Mutants: These are a common occurrence on post-apocalyptic Earth, and are called "deviants". However, seeing as it's a Crapsack World, they're immediately exiled or killed on discovery.
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The Chrysalids / int_a8a4b41e	type	Not So Stoic
The Chrysalids / int_a8a4b41e	comment	Not So Stoic: Emily eventually shows herself to be this after Aunt Harriet's visit. And Rosalind's cool exterior is revealed to be a deliberate 'armour' for her real sensitive, vulnerable self.
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The Chrysalids / int_aac2244a	type	EvilVsEvil
The Chrysalids / int_aac2244a	comment	Evil vs. Evil: Brothers Joseph and Gordon Strorm are mortal enemies and both are evil: one of them is an abusive and sadistic religious tyrant, and the other is a would-be rapist.
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The Chrysalids / int_afebbd7	type	And Man Grew Proud
The Chrysalids / int_afebbd7	comment	And Man Grew Proud: Thought to be the reason behind Tribulation. Ironically — as David's uncle and Secret-Keeper Axel points out — even if this is basically correct, the new society has drawn exactly the wrong lessons from it.
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The Chrysalids / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Chrysalids / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Joseph frequently beats David, and after he discovers his son was concealing Sophie from him, to the point that he has to spend the whole of the next day in bed to recover. And that's after the inspector refused to let his whip be used for this purpose.
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The Chrysalids / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
The Chrysalids / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: In-story, being banished to the Fringes is considered this, as not only are Blasphemies officially not human (being considered instead the soulless spawn of Satan), they're forcibly sterilized and tossed into wild, savage country to survive or die as chance wills.
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The Chrysalids / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
The Chrysalids / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: Both Uncle Axel and Rosalind kill to protect the group's secret, and both defend themselves this way.
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The Chrysalids / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
The Chrysalids / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: David gets knocked unconscious a couple of times and recovers without ill effects.
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The Chrysalids / int_b50504d	type	Creepily Long Arms
The Chrysalids / int_b50504d	comment	Creepily Long Arms: The character David refers to as the "spider-man" (whose real name is Gordon) has arms and legs which are eighteen inches longer than they should be in proportion to his body. David is somewhat creeped out by him when they first meet and tries to stay out of range of his long arms; at their next encounter (which takes place several years later) Gordon appears no less freakish. And the fact that he has a somewhat squicky interest in teenaged girls like Sophie and Rosalind just adds to his overall creepiness.
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The Chrysalids / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
The Chrysalids / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: As per the generally primitive attitude to biology, any woman who gives birth to three deformed or mutated children in a row may be 'sent away' by her husband... but apparently the husbands don't suffer any repercussions at all, instead being allowed to seek new wives.
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The Chrysalids / int_b9882b33	type	Bizarre Baby Boom
The Chrysalids / int_b9882b33	comment	Bizarre Baby Boom: Something of the sort from the viewpoint of the children as their telepathic powers emerge.
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The Chrysalids / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
The Chrysalids / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: Joseph. As noted, he harshly punishes David when the latter makes an innocent remark about needing a third arm to tie a difficult knot, because he interprets it as David wishing to be a mutant.
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The Chrysalids / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Chrysalids / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: The mere mention of deviation is enough to inspire real fear and horror, as per the scene in which David innocently suggests he could've used a third hand to accomplish a task and is beaten for it. The inspector enjoys pressing Joseph's buttons specifically.
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The Chrysalids / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
The Chrysalids / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: The eponymous group, out of necessity. Made explicit when David tries to explain to Uncle Axel why killing one member would be unthinkable for the others, even if it meant the their own lives.
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The Chrysalids / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Chrysalids / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: A recurring theme in the book. That Joseph Strorm, the most extreme of the mutant-hating population of Waknuk, has fathered four children that are mutants is just the tip of the iceberg.
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The Chrysalids / int_c558da6a	type	Gunship Rescue
The Chrysalids / int_c558da6a	comment	Gunship Rescue: The Sealanders swoop into the battle between the Waknuk and Fringes people in their helicopter to recover the telepaths, killing all of the combatants with what is essentially a giant web-shooter.
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The Chrysalids / int_c6d11745	type	Telepathy
The Chrysalids / int_c6d11745	comment	Telepathy: What sets David & company apart from the surrounding Norms of Waknuk, and by contrast is the driving force behind the Sealand society; it's called "thought-shapes" or 'thinking-together' by those who have it. They can communicate only with each other, and only receive what's sent (although Petra is beginning to evince an uncomfortable ability to detect 'behind-thinks'). They share this with the Sealand woman and the majority of the members of her society, with "normal" humans being the exception for them. It's hinted that Sophie's mother may have limited telepathic ability as well, but it's not something she's aware of. David actually tests her but cannot make contact.
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The Chrysalids / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
The Chrysalids / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: We learn early in the novel that Joseph Strorm is very much like his father Elias, who was even more harsh and unyielding. Joseph may also have been influenced by the banishment of his older brother Gordon, who was originally thought to be normal but developed unusually long limbs as he grew up.
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The Chrysalids / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Chrysalids / int_ce0b2b21	comment	Monochrome Casting: Rather oddly given the location, there's no indication of Inuit or other ethnic diversity in Waknuk. Black skin is called out as a particularly strange deviation found only among more southerly (probably remnants of the Caribbean) peoples... which raises some uncomfortable possibilities re: what might've happened to any previous minorities of color in the Labrador area, at the hands of the majority Caucasian population.
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The Chrysalids / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
The Chrysalids / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Sophie. Forced sterilization, followed by "degradation to a savage", will do that to anyone.
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The Chrysalids / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
The Chrysalids / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: The usual title is The Chrysalids, but it has also been called "Re-Birth" or "Rebirth" in other editions.
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The Chrysalids / int_d4937788	type	Days of Future Past
The Chrysalids / int_d4937788	comment	Days of Future Past: Future Labrador is essentially a post-apocalyptic twist on the rural villages Wyndham and his initial readers would've grown up remembering, complete with Eternal English, distinctively British given names and Caucasian Monochrome Casting.
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The Chrysalids / int_d4d8d831	type	Feuding Families
The Chrysalids / int_d4d8d831	comment	Feuding Families: On top of everything else they have to deal with, David and Rosalind's. Their fathers make a point of spying on each other's farms in order to publicly point out deviations in the crops or livestock.
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The Chrysalids / int_d53ad027	type	Cheerful Child
The Chrysalids / int_d53ad027	comment	Cheerful Child: Petra, whom even Joseph cannot resist spoiling, 'with an endearing lack of success'. Also Sophie, the six-toed little girl David befriends, before she and her family are captured and exiled — making the hard, bitter woman we meet in the Fringes later that much more heartbreaking.
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The Chrysalids / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: The main characters will never be able to return to Labrador after their rescue by the Sealanders — not that they'd want to, though.
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The Chrysalids / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Both David and Petra serve as this. David, because his strange childhood dreams allow him to confirm Petra's second-hand description of 'Sealand' (actually, as per its description, New Zealand); Petra, because her strong "thought-shapes" allow the Sealand woman to home in on her and thus know where to find the protagonists later. The minor character Jerome Skinner, certainly. He's only seen in person for one brief scene, but he's the one who outs the protagonists to the authorities.
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The Chrysalids / int_dfa15af2	comment	Hair Memento: The book is set in a post-apocalyptic society where any congenital anomaly is seen as the devil's mark and the affected person is cast out. When Sophie, a young girl with an extra toe on each foot, is forced to flee with her parents after her secret is discovered, she gives a lock of her hair to her friend David (the story's narrator) for him to remember her by. However, this becomes a Tragic Keepsake, as David's father forces him to betray her, and she and her parents are subsequently captured, though David is assured that this happened by chance.
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The Chrysalids / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Michael, the best-educated of the telepaths and one of the few whose ability remains undiscovered, joins one of the groups hunting David and company in order to give them play-by-play information.
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The Chrysalids / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Alan. So much so, in fact, that following his death, it's discovered that he's made a number of enemies. Joseph Strorm is this trope taken to horrifying levels.
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The Chrysalids / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: And how... at least for David, Petra and Rosalind. The other telepaths, not so much, unfortunately.
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The Chrysalids / int_f76842b1	comment	The Fundamentalist: Strorm family retainer Old Jacob, deliberately introduced to represent this POV within the story. He considers one year's high rate of Deviations a judgement on the more progressive elements of his society for, among other things, no longer simply burning human mutants to death.
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The Chrysalids / int_f774026	comment	Projectile Webbing: The Sealanders' helicopter is equipped with a device that entraps enemies in web-like, sticky strands. However, unlike most examples of this trope, the webbing chokes those trapped in it to death- slowly.
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The Chrysalids / int_f96f8980	comment	Love Makes You Crazy: Uncle Axel cites this as the reason why Anne's relationship with a 'normal' man poses an overwhelming threat to the safety of the group as a whole; whether out of guilt or self-abasement or some other passion, eventually she will feel the need to confess all. This proves to be even more accurate when you consider that the man Anne plans to marry, Alan, reported Sophie’s mutation when he was a child and will undoubtedly betray Anne as well, which is why Axel eventually murders Alan. Unfortunately, this causes Anne to become really crazy and she hangs herself.
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The Chrysalids / int_fe0de947	comment	Moral Luck: At the end of the book, our heroes are trapped in a cave when The Cavalry show up, killing everyone else in the area. The bad news is, one of them is the protagonist's childhood friend Sophie, who is currently protecting him and his fellow fugitives. The good news is, the Sealanders' weapon doesn't kill her — David explicitly sees her shot in battle just moments before they arrive. One wonders how the Sealand woman's speech about how 'necessary' their actions were would've gone over with David and co. had it involved Sophie's death in particular.note Although it's possible that she could have been rescued from the threads, just as the telepaths were.
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