Superiority Complex

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The climax of the story is when the Narrator killed the Curate. The reason why the Narrator killed the Curate is because he lost his mind terribly and he would keep on screaming and yelling almost giving away their location. After the Narrator killed the Curate he started to have a conflict within himself: “I sat about in the darkness of the sculler, in a state of despondent wretchedness” (Wells 156). For the first few days in the scullery he does nothing all that he complains about is that he is hungry. On the fifteenth day the Narrator hears outside of the scullery dogs but only sees them as food.
When the Narrator left the house where he was hiding with the Curate, he traveled along the road towards Putney thinking that he was the only man left alive. Then he reached an Inn on top of Putney Hill where he spent the night. There were only three things that his mind could not grasp and that was killing the Curate, where the Martians were located, and what could happen to his wife.
The Narrator wandered around in London trying find if there are any survivors but what he stumbles upon are a dozen dead Martians lying silently killed by a bacterial disease. The Narrator finds that the Martians are dead and that there were survivors. Ships were coming across the channel, the Irish Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean bringing food to relief the civilians. The Narrator returned back to his home noticing that his home is desolate. He looked out his French window and he stood amazed that he saw his wife and cousin. When the Narrator met back up with his wife, she fell right into his arms.
The significance of the title The War of The Worlds is that there is a war between two worlds. The novel title The War of The Worlds is symbolic because it is...

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...lied to people today because there are people in this world who really have superiority complexes. Another reason why the theme can be applied to people today, if people have a superiority complex it can take control of them because they always want to hide their feelings that’s why we have psychologist to help people who use this defensive mechanism.
The author of The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells, used literary elements of irony and foreshadowing to portray the theme that there are people in this world who have a superiority complex that makes them believe that they are always in control no matter what. H. G. Wells was seen as the father of miniature war gaming.

Works Cited

Abrams, Dennis. H.G. Wells. New York: Infobase Learning, 2011.
“Wells, H.G.” Literary Lifelines. 1998. Print
Wells, H.G. The War of The Worlds. New York: Signet Classics, 2007. Print.

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