Elements of Utopian/Dystopian Literature in The Chrysalids

1. Rigorously Planned Society

1.1. In the chrysalids, the sociaty is well planned. Their would be someone hought would know when someone is not normal. And in the city, everybody knew eacheother. (p.40)

2. Control of Reproductive Freedom

2.1. The norm is the will of god, and, reproduction is the only holy production and the devil is the father of deviation, and a number of others about Offences and Blashphemies. (p.18)

3. Child/Young Adult becomes the Central Character

4. Charismatic Leaders or Masterminds

4.1. p.18 We would all kneel while he proclaimed

5. An Idealized World as Escape and Critical of Adult World

6. Prioritization of the Collective Well-Being Over the Fate of the Individual