A comparison of life in London, Air Strip One (or Great Britain) in the George Orwell novel 1984' and Waknuk, Canada in the John Wyndham novel The Crysalids.'
Waknuk is a society living after a nuclear attack. The people of Air Strip One (or Britain) in 1984 live in a dictatorship controlled by The Party.
Waknuck is an enclosed society similar to Victorian Britain. As people spend all their lives in the town or city they are born they can't experience different cultures and therefore have a lack of tolerance and understanding for differences in the lifestyles of these cultures. The lack of experience of different cultures is not the reason for a lack of a true understanding of these cultures in 1984. The people of London are effectively poisoned against such cultures by the Party and so have no reason to want to experience them.
Waknuck is also based largely on Religion - it is a Christian society. Most of the prejudices are formed from the Bible. Any......
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