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John Wyndham and George Orwell: Two Peas in a Pod! John Wyndham's The Day
of the Triffids was his most successful novel sprouting ...
Submitted by jeffydohmor on May 9, 2008
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John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids was his most successful novel sprouting many film adaptations and a much anticipated sequel after his death. Despite all of its popularity, it has not been Wyndham’s most well received work by the critics (Reading Group web). It has frequently been treated as a horror story lacking in thoughts as a pose to a brilliant novel that warns people as to what technology could lead to. This means that some major themes in it have been overlooked. This is interesting because these same themes are present in the popular novel Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell. The most important theme that is never talked about by scholars of either book is everlasting horror. Both Day of the Triffids and Nineteen Eight Four are about pain and suffering that never end (Delson web). The pain being referred to is of physical pain because neither Orwell nor Wyndham were of any spiritual nature. Nineteen Eighty Four and The Day of the Triffids share many common themes concerning pain and death.
Ideas have a strong presence in Triffids. At one point in the novel a Professor of Sociology lectures the survivors on the practical morality needed for the new, wrecked world. He gives his speech in the middle of chapter seven (Wyndham 97). The heroine and hero, Playton and Masen, talk about their changing principles and offer political analyses of events, repeatedly starting from the first chapter (Wyndham 56). It seems that three social theories are behind the founding of the different groups of people; the Christians who are destroyed out by the plague, the troubled regime established by the dictator Torrence, and the final Isle of Wight colony where Masen and Platon live out the rest of their lives and write their versions of what happened (Wyndham 211). Many different ideas are discussed and their penalties are worked out in the separate colonies (Wyndham 109). Wyndham also explicitly goes into an analysis of the triffid economy, and he does...
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