The Importance of Independent Thoughts Portrayed Through John Wyndham’s, The Chrysalids. Dictators want control over everyone, they want to discourage others' own opinions, their independent thoughts. Independent thoughts are important to discover when people follow others blindly, even when they do bad things. The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham promotes the importance of independent thought by creating a fictional future where a nuclear destroyed future town has a dictator that makes people follow rules blindly on the facade of being God's word. In the novel, the protagonist David Strorm who is the son of the dictator of the town, starts to question the rules that they have, that anyone that is different is dangerous. This is shown when David meets a …show more content…
Anne was going to reveal a secret that could put herself and all of our main characters in danger because she wanted to tell anything to her fiancé, Uncle Axel. He revealed in the story what was happening with Anne that “.A woman who is in love is a different proposition. She lives in a world where all the old perspectives have been altered. She is blinkered, single-purposed, undependable in other matters. She would sacrifice anything, including herself, for one loyalty. For her, that is quite logical; for everyone else it looks not quite sane; socially it is dangerous. And when there is also a feeling of guilt to be overcome, and, maybe, expiated, it is quite certainly dangerous for someone”(Wyndham pg.41 digital). Anne's life had become so controlled by Allan that after he was assassinated she couldn’t live without him and took her own life, she was willing to do anything that he had told her to do, she was a mindless slave. These examples show how John Wyndham’s, The Chrysalids places great importance on independent thought. John Wyndham’s, The Chrysalids, has reached many