A comparison between life in London, Air Strip One (or Great Britain) in George Orwell's novel "1984" and Waknuk, Canada in the novel by John Wyndham "The Chrysalis". ' 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 a closed society similar to Victorian Britain. Because people spend their entire lives in the city where they are born, they cannot experience different cultures and therefore lack tolerance and understanding for the differences in the lifestyles of these cultures. Lack of experience of different cultures is not the reason for the lack of true understanding of these cultures in 1984. Londoners are effectively poisoned against such cultures by the Party and therefore have no reason to want to experience them. Waknuck is also based largely on religion: it is a Christian society. Most prejudices come from the Bible. Any creature that is against "the true image of God" (or a mutant) is called Blasphemy. The Christian religion (and indeed other religions) have been the source of numerous prejudices in modern British society (e.g. sexism and homophobia) and even conflicts (e.g. the conflicts between the Republic and Northern Ireland). In the novel '1984' no one follows a religion as such, for the people of Great Britain in 1984 there is no God, the exact opposite of the radical religious views of the people of Waknuk. Most people in Waknuk were "brainwashed" by Christianity in the same way that many people in Britain in 1984 were "brainwashed" by the party and Big Brother. Each uses repetitive slogans, in 1984 slogans such as: "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." they are used and more subtly in Christianity in the form of prayers and commandments. The Party and the Christians each worship a figure, respectively Big Brother and God, neither of whom can be completely sure of their presence but still convince themselves that they exist. In 1984, power rests with the Party, but it lies with the church of Waknuk. The people of Waknuk are unable to understand theories such as the Theory of Evolution dispute over the discovery of fossils and other evidence that would conflict with Genesis..