In addition, there’s a surprisingly persistent discussion of the nature of ‘class’ in 1950s England, which comes to revolve around the ambiguous character of Coker.Ībove all, focusing on the monsters underplays the extent to which the book is more grippingly a terrifying vision of an entire world gone blind. has numerous conversations about the morality of deciding who to save and who to abandon in a disaster scenario.spends a lot of time meditating on the nature of ‘normal society’, how fragile and contingent it is.However the book, like all books, has the space to be more thoughtful and psychological than any movie or TV series, and so it came as a surprise to discover how much less of a part the triffids play in it, and instead how full the novel is with moral and philosophical speculations. Like all films, the movie version requires action and so, in the film, the triffids are much more prominent and horrifying from the start. I thought I knew the story well enough from fond memories of the 1962 Cinemascope film version, but I was wrong. This is a much more interesting and genuinely horrifying book than I expected.
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