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The woman from Zealand (which David and Rosalind call “Sealand”) discovers the group in Waknuk when she hears Petra’s thoughts. In Zealand, everyone can communicate through thought images, but Petra has the largest known range of any telepath, so the Zealander woman organizes a ship to come and rescue Petra, Rosalind, and David. The woman believes strongly in the power of communal thought and a cyclical version of history in which a lower class overthrows a higher class, only to be overthrown by another class. These beliefs are very similar to those held in the real world by Marxists. The woman shows no remorse in killing an entire battlefield of people in order to save Petra, Rosalind, and David because she feels that the people who died are of an inferior species.
Woman from Zealand Quotes in The Chrysalids
The The Chrysalids quotes below are all either spoken by Woman from Zealand or refer to Woman from Zealand. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 16
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“Your work is to survive. Neither his kind, nor his kind of thinking will survive long. They are the crown of creation, they are ambition fulfilled—they have nowhere more to go. But life is change, that is how it differs from the rocks, change is its very nature. Who, then, were the recent lords of creation, that they should expect to remain unchanged?”
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“The Old People brought down Tribulation, and were broken into fragments by it. Your father and his kind are a part of those fragments. They have become history without being aware of it. They are determined still that there is a final form to defend: soon they will attain the stability they strive for, in the only form it is granted—a place among the fossils.”
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Chapter 17
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“Sometime there will come a day when we ourselves shall have to give place to a new thing. Very certainly we shall struggle against the inevitable just as these remnants of the Old People do. We shall try with all our strength to grind it back into the earth from which it is emerging, for treachery to one’s own species must always seem a crime. We shall force it to prove itself, and when it does, we shall go; as, by the same process, these are going.”
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“The essential quality of life is living; the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution: and we are part of it.”
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Woman from Zealand Quotes in The Chrysalids
The The Chrysalids quotes below are all either spoken by Woman from Zealand or refer to Woman from Zealand. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 16
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“Your work is to survive. Neither his kind, nor his kind of thinking will survive long. They are the crown of creation, they are ambition fulfilled—they have nowhere more to go. But life is change, that is how it differs from the rocks, change is its very nature. Who, then, were the recent lords of creation, that they should expect to remain unchanged?”
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“The Old People brought down Tribulation, and were broken into fragments by it. Your father and his kind are a part of those fragments. They have become history without being aware of it. They are determined still that there is a final form to defend: soon they will attain the stability they strive for, in the only form it is granted—a place among the fossils.”
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Chapter 17
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“Sometime there will come a day when we ourselves shall have to give place to a new thing. Very certainly we shall struggle against the inevitable just as these remnants of the Old People do. We shall try with all our strength to grind it back into the earth from which it is emerging, for treachery to one’s own species must always seem a crime. We shall force it to prove itself, and when it does, we shall go; as, by the same process, these are going.”
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“The essential quality of life is living; the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution: and we are part of it.”
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