Famed actor Oscar Isaac once said, “Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve.” This quote relates to that of the mutants in the X-Men and the Chrysalids for it reflects the way these mutants think and act. In the world of the X-Men and the Chrysalids, society treated mutants with no respect and called them words like “freak” since they were different. Individuals who continuously say things like this cannot comprehend the struggle that these brave mutants face in their lives every day. Making assumptions like these would only tighten the struggle that mutants have with the humans and may cause a war. With the capability of exhibiting morality, the society can look at the vigorous values that are held by the people of the X-Men, the values held by the people in the Chrysalids and the differences in these values. …show more content…
If the people accept the X-Men for who they really are, it can positively influence society as a whole. Throughout the movie, X-Men: First Class, Charles Xavier, also called Professor X, demonstrated compassion to the humans and attained the value of being sympathetic and humble towards others for he was the one who wanted mutants and humans to establish peace between both. If the amount of peaceful mutants throughout the world were to escalate, catastrophe can be categorized as a minor issue for being peaceful and compassionate means one is reliable and not a threat. Even though Xavier was one of the few who were in favor of the idea of a world with mutants and humans, mutants such as Erik Lehnsherr, also called Magneto despised Xavier’s idea because he believed that humanity would persecute mutant-kind and due to this hatred he and the other mutants declared a war upon
Just because people within a family are blood related and living together, it does not mean they are identical in their beliefs and actions. In some cases the generations of people in the family have the same way looking at things and understand the same sets of rules and believe in same kind of moral behavior. Unlike that, in the novel, “The Chrysalids”, the protagonist, David Strorm and his father, Joseph, the antagonist have very different characters and conflicting points of view.
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.
Today’s society is accepting of differences, where as in the Chrysalids if you had any type of difference that was visible, you didn’t get a certificate, you were sterilized and sent to the fringes. Conformity was the only way of having control over the people of the Waknuck society and they didn’t want mutants or deviations to take over. Another story about mutants is portrayed in the movie X-Men First Class, all the normal people are afraid of them. They are afraid because of what they can and could possible do and they had no way of controlling them without making them come out of hiding. They would have to tell the government what they could do and the government would then decide whether or not they were too dangerous for the public. The Waknuck society was not into have individualism, just like in the Hunger Games. In the movie people were separated into districts and every year to remind them of why they were separated, they have one male and one female from each district between the ages 12-18 as tributes. This happens because of the rebellion Seventy-four years before and every year all twenty-four tributes are to fight to the death until one lone victor remains. In the Chrysalids they are to keep to their jobs in their district and to report any deviants. They control conformity through and by historical beliefs, for example the only two book’s left from the “Old People” were the revised Bible to tell them what the true image really is and the book Repentances. Furthermore the Chrysalids is about how conformity after devastation may not be the greatest idea.
Nothing a tiger does is immoral because it has no moral sense. Our moral sense curses us with the ability to choose evil, a trait completely unique to humanity. Scientists trying to achieve the pursuit of perfection could be seen as a form of evil. Taking away a human’s rights to individuality and expression is not fair. Our individuality is the basis of who we are as human beings, without individuality, how would anyone have opinions, likes and dislikes and hobbies, that differentiate from the next person? Even if Scientists do somehow achieve the ideology of perfection they will continue to make improvements to technology, meaning eventually human beings could potentially become robots, nothing but a mob of identical brains and bodies. Looking at the film and Vincent’s journey from being a Janitor to an employee of Gattaca, you can see examples of similarity. While working as a Janitor, Vincent wears the stereotypical Boiler Suits which refer to the genetically inferior. When gaining his job at Gattaca he is wearing dark suits like everyone else, representing the genetically superior. Throughout the film we see other characters wearing stereotypical clothing such as the Doctor (wearing a white lab coat,) and the Detective (wearing a big trench coat and hat.) The use of stereotypical characters expresses a world of uniformity which contains no creativity
For my Christian Leadership and Service class, our final project is to watch a movie and analyze it according to a prevalent social issue. The movie that my group decided to watch is Zootopia. The film communicates that people should not be indulged by the Outgroup Homogeneity effect. This is when thinking of ingroups as diverse, and those of the outgroup as similar occurs. The movie depicts this because the predators are all classified as being “savage” due to their biological nature even thought it was only some that were acting “savage.” Those couple of predators that were found to be wild made ingroups believe that all outgroup members (predators) were also savage and that they should not take part of important roles in Zootipia. After realizing that she was wrong in thinking that all outgroup members were savage Judy shows that she learned that a
The novel, The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, foretells of a futuristic story which unfolds about injustice and oppression of the innocent. In a dystopian world a group of eight telepathic children struggle to grow up undiscovered and when the time comes, to escape. A religious creed is set up “The Definition of Man” as a ‘purity standard’. As a result, people lived with much fear and self-hatred. The standard set one neighbor against the other in fear of another ‘tribulation’. A world scale disaster had occurred many generations ago and out of the chaos the ancestors and consequent generations held to what they thought was the ‘true image’. Anything else was the ‘devils’ work. So people lived under surveillance and suspicion, bigotry, and oppression.
Morals guide people to behave in a civilized manner; dehumanization shows itself when people abandon their morals and ethics. Dehumanization, by definition, “is one of the central processes in the transformation of ordinary, normal people into indifferent or even wanton perpetrators of evil”. The people who go through the process of dehumanization become less educated, more savage-like and will do anything to survive. Without morals, humans will slowly lose their compassion for others. Once humans lose morals, they show dehumanization by acting like wild beasts. Having a strong sense of right and wrong allows humans to be guided to a civilized society. The leader of a group needs to present good morals and ethics. Without a just and moral leader, dehumanization will begin to creep upon its next victims.
The story of Oryx and Crake 's makes it very apparent that human nature has a large influence on Jimmy and Glenn 's ethics and actions. Nature 's evolution is presented throughout Margaret Atwood’s scientific novel during the creation of medicines in the factories and moving on to Glenn creating the perfect human, Crakers. Looking into Soraya Copley 's academic article and and stories from Reading the World: Ideas That Matter, we’ll notice the evaluation of science fiction from human intelligence, Ruth Benedict 's many ideas of how society affects the human evolution as well the overall influence on our ethics and actions because of human nature.
‘The Chrysalids’ by John Wyndham is about an innocent boy with telepathic abilities living in an anti-mutant society. This boy, David, faces several challenges which made him realise of the ways of the world he is in. The main theme of the novel is discrimination and it can be seen from the society of Waknuk, Joseph Strorm and the setting of the book.
Humans have many flaws, the seven deadly sins, our morals, our mentalities, and so forth. The Chrysalids, written by John Wyndham does a very good job of portraying these flaws, throughout its story, characters, and plot. The novel The Chrysalids reveals the true nature of humanity through various situations, and characters such as, Joseph Strorm’s ignorant and strict ways regarding the true image, Spider-Man who bears a grudge toward his brother and eventually kills him, and the Sealand Lady who justifies killing the Waknuk posse because they are less valuable.
Warren begins her argument by explicitly defining a human person as someone who is a “full-fledged member of the moral community” (Timmons 385). Warren believes that this community consists of all and only people that possess the ability to express the five qualities that were previously mentioned as opposed to all human beings that possess the genetic code of humanity. Being a member of this community entitles a person to have full moral rights, including the rights of life and happiness, which must be respected. Warren justifies that the five qualities are sufficient criteria of determining the apparent “personhood” of a being by stating that such principles of humanity would be used when attempting to study alien life forms on distant planets. Despite discernable differences in physiological and (potentially) cultural development, these alien beings may demonstrate enoug...
In addition, the way people treat you influences your character or personality a lot. This is shown in Frankenstein’s monster when he has an idea to make a young friend. He felt like a young clean soul that has not been tarnished with all of the judgements of society would be a perfect individual to befriend. This is shown when the story states, “I drew his hand forcibly from his face and said, "Child, what is the meaning of this? I do not intend to hurt you; listen to me." He struggled violently. "Let me go," he cried; "monster! Ugly wretch! You wish to eat me and tear me to pieces. You are an ogre. Let me go, or I will tell my papa." (Shelley, 170). Just because of the way the monster looked to the child, he viewed him as evil and wanted to get his papa. All the creature wanted to accomplish was to attempt to befriend a young boy to show the people that he wasn’t an evil being. The fact that the young boy treated the creature as a mutant made him want to run and get help. The boy didn’t care that all the creature wanted was to be friends so that somehow society would treat him as an
One way in which society influences the Creature’s behavior is their disgust and hateful attitude towards him. For example, when the creature landed upon a village, he was attacked because of his looks, “…I had hardly placed my foot within the door, before the children shrieked and one of the woman fainted. The whole village was roused, some fled, some attacked me, until grievously bruised by stones and many others kinds of missile weapons” (93). Just the looks of the creature was enough to set off the village to attack him. People fear what they don’t understand and can act irrationally. After this, it is understandable that the creature would despise and seek revenge against humans. Another example of how poorly society treats him is shown when the creature finally manages to bring up courage and talks to the blind man. They are interrupted when his family come back home. “Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore me from his father… he dashed me to the ground and stuck me violently with a stick” (122). The creature managed to have a conversation with the blind father yet when others say him; he was beaten and chased out. The fact that the family he had observed for so long shunned him at the sight of his face shows the ignorance in society. Society affected the creature by punishing and...
Society suppresses and limits individual creativity and freedom by forming strict traditions and forcing conformity. When conformity begins to rule a human’s life, decisions, and thoughts, it creates a restriction of personal freedom, choices and beliefs. In The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham, Waknuk abuses authority by restricting individuality, creating cowards and a false sense of security. Conformity can result in a manipulative cult, which often forces people to blindly submit to a leader’s irrational traditions and beliefs. Members of an unstable group join because they seek a sense of belonging. These people are willingly dependent on authority figures out of laziness, in order to escape responsibilities and to cope with life’s difficulties.
Although a strict society composed of high morality and disciplinary laws may be necessary for safety, it causes internal conflicts within the individuals. In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller a theocracy in Salem rules and guides the citizens into doing what is “right”, but eventually backfires due to issues of reputation and jealousy. Society has a lot of influence on the citizens, and with a bad reputation, it is nearly impossible to live in a Puritan society. Salem’s strict Puritanical social structure causes personal struggles for the individuals involved in the events of The Crucible, and then eventually these personal struggles affect the society overall.