John Wyndham's The Chrysalids gives the reader a dramatic sci-fi experience, and a whole lot of violence. Wyndham thought up a great idea and plot. As one is reading the novel, it is clear that there are many stereotypes and prejudices. The Chrysalids criticizes various stereotypes in the way the people live and are born in the novel. It also criticizes prejudice. It criticizes intolerance, and resistance for changing in society. How? It shows resistance to change because the Waknuk people won't accept the slightly deviated horses, when there isn't actually something wrong with them, they are simply larger than normal horses. And how can something that does no harm to anyone, only makes humans lives easier, be deviative?
             The Chrysalids very much criticizes prejudice, and being prejudice against people that are physically or "talentedly" different from "the Norm". David's deviation isn't physically seen, but once found out, even his own family would shoot him. That, in which killing your own loved family member, shows how strong the prejudice in Waknuk is. The following proves the point of prejudice. " "That's bad, you know," he said, "It's what we call abetting a concealment. You must have known that was wrong, didn't you?" " In The Chrysalids even the smallest mark of deformity means that it has to be destroyed, shown by how the families would kill their own children. Parents that would kill their own children is a very strong action to go through with based simply on prejudice beliefs of "Norm" and deviation, as well as claiming it is very bad to "hide a deviation" shows their ignorance and not fully understanding life, evolution, and radiation. The novel criticizes prejudice in how it makes all "Norm" people hate deviations and think they need to be irradiated.
             The Chrysalids shows a stray theme of Int
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