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The Chrysalids by John Wyndham: Essay Question "The essential quality of life is living, the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution and we are a part of it" Explain how the title is symbolic to the major theme of the novel. A chrysalis; the time when a pupa lies swaddled in a cocoon, waiting for its last major progression in life, when it finally matures to adulthood. Man also has this transformation. He plays his part as a guiltless boy but there comes a certain time for reflection and retrospection when that little boy through hardship and struggle, success and failure becomes an individual, an adult, a man. Since the beginning of time, change has been essential for survival. Those species that evolved were the ones who continued living rather than those who died due to a lack of change. 'Survival of the fittest' as Darwin said, is imminent in our surroundings....

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