The War Of The Worlds

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The War Of The Worlds

The War Of The Worlds is about Martians coming down to earth and they

start invading London. The Martians try to wipe out mankind in London.

But don't become very successful because they get wiped out by the

tiniest things on earth bacteria.

The novel was published in 1898. At this time the British Empire was

strong and dangerous. The British Empire conquered many places, such

as India and parts of Africa. They were colonizing the countries.

People say that at that time the British Empire were "Stretched to

their limits"

Religion was being questioned by a man called Charles Darwin, who was

a famous scientist. He came up with the idea that humans evolved from

apes animals and cells multiplied. Religion was being questioned by

science, there were things that religion couldn't explain and science

did. Religion at that time started to get doubted because people were

seeing it that science had the answers and religion didn't.

In the War Of The Worlds the Curate represents religion and when the

Martians come to London, they try to invade it. He panics, forgets and

doubts his religion. It is then the narrator says "What good is

religion if it collapses at calamity?" what the narrator is trying to

say is there's no point for the Curate believing in his religion if he

collapses at it. Later in the novel the Curate absolutely goes mad and

has no faith at all. The Curate says "Hope!" "Yes; plentiful hope for

- all this destruction!" This quote shows and proves that he has no

faith in nothing, and then again he is someone who represents his

religion. The Curate also criticizes the quote. He really should have

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... novel is written to the first person. This is also an effective

device to use in this novel because it makes it real and also makes it

horrifying. The narrator's occupation is "a speculative philosopher"

and H.G Wells is a science fiction writer.

Wells describes his area of expertise for example he says "my

particular province is speculative philosopher." Wells wasn't a

scientist he was just interested in science.

In the novel this is seen as Wells referring to himself. Wells asks

for the reader participation. "The planet Mars I scarcely need remind

the reader….." he asks the reader participation when he says "people

who have never seen these structures and have only the ill - imagined

efforts of artists or the imperfect descriptions of such eye witness

as myself to go upon scarcely realize that living quality."

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