Analysis Of The War Of The Worlds By Herbert G. Wells

For example, the original thirteen colonies that Britain established on North America’s east coast have gone on to become the world’s main superpower, the United States of America. Britain’s colony in China, Hong Kong, has gone on to become Asia’s premiere financial center with Singapore (another British jewel) trailing just behind. Even Britain’s prisoners set up the only first-world country in the Southern Hemisphere, Australia! Compare this to Spain’s imperial efforts, for example Mexico is the only third world country in North America and has always struggled to overcome a legal system plagued with corruption. Why is it that the British colonies were so successful and the colonies of other countries such failures in comparison? I feel the answer to that is British law. British law has been a keystone in these colonies success. Their political ideals have helped sculpt the success stories of the modern world, albeit there have been some failures such as India and Rhodesia where there were civilians revolting against their new leaders. The British education system helped produce a new class of educated Africans and Asians that were able seek employment once they had completed their schooling.

When earth is invaded, what will happen? Great science fiction novels explore many scenarios like this. The likelihood of an Alien invasion is still a highly talked about topic in science fiction today. But none approach the subject of alien invasions like The War of the Worlds. When looking for a science fiction novel a reader has a wide array of books to choose from. One would want to choose a classic science fiction novel that is engaging and believable. H.G. Wells’ novel The War of the Worlds is mesmerizing and conceivable literary wise; Wells does this by portraying a believable and captivating plot, clever character development and interesting and creative science to support it.

For Britain, the colonies were acquired with no other view as to be a continence. America had resources that would be valuable to the British Empire. There were, however, unbreakable connections between both Britain and America. During this time, world affairs were running strongly in Britain’s favor, their empire was growing ever stronger and America was part of it. (Holmes)(Pearson)

The War of the Worlds starts out when the narrator starts talking about how martins attacked the earth and the people of the earth never expected it. Then, the martin’s cylinders come crashing down on earth revealing martins that appear to not move so well. Next, the martins build tripods and attack everything they see. The narrator grabs his wife and they run and hide. Then, the narrator decides to go back towards the martins for many reasons. Now, the British Army is fighting the martins and loosing terribly. The British destroyed one tripod and the martins have come to town in them. The narrator now notices how deadly the martins are so he runs and hides again. While he’s hiding

As he says, “I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes…. My world began to expand very rapidly, and when presently I could put my foot to the ground, the reading habit had got me securely.”. Thanks to breaking his leg while playing cricket. The son of his family’s landlords, whose last name was the Suttons, tried to be friendly and pick up H.G. Wells and playfully tossed him into the air. H.G. wiggled out of place and the landlord’s son was not able to catch him, and wound up with a shattered shinbone. It lead him down the path through life to where he eventually wrote his first book, The Time Machine, and went on to write The Island Of Dr. Moreau, The Invisible Man, and then The War Of The Worlds (1898). In this book, he shows his vision of the worst that could happen to the world. Today it is probably best known as the archetype of every science fiction film that best presents and sets a precedent of creatures from outer space invading Earth, armed with deadly ray guns, looking to destroy mankind and Earth. One such movie that is based off this book would be the movie Independence Day. What made this book so special to readers because of the believability with which Wells lays out the story of the Martian invasion of Earth, the conquest of Earth, and life underneath the Martians.

The 19th century was a transformative one in human history, resulting in changes of globalization through colonialism, numerous scientific achievements which led to industrialization, and an emergence of new philosophical thoughts which placed emphasis on human nature. The War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells, was a reflection of its time, and it shows the idea of imperialism at the time by exploring how the differences between Martians and humans causes a moral disconnect which was an allegory to express the British lack of empathy toward their colonies, how radical ideologies took advantage of that disconnect for their own profit, and why imperialism is morally hypocritical.

When reading the text War of the Worlds by H.G Wells and “Zero Hour” by Ray Bradbury the reader might notice that both readings have much in common. In War of the Worlds by H.G Wells and “Zero Hour” by Ray Bradbury the Martians use clever tactics to invade Earth and both have a negative impact on the characters but this happens in different ways.

Throughout history, we observe a countless amount of leaders who implement a point of view in which that one person or a thousand people need to sacrificed in order to save a million others, then that is what is necessary. The idea of sacrificing a few for the greater good of mankind is an ideology that should be respected and followed, and we can see many real world implementations of sacrificing for the greater good in wars, history, books and movies. In a novel by Max Brooks, World War Z, the narrator retells the stories of numerous different characters who all have a different perspective on the zombie war. One of these characters, Paul Redeker, embodies this idea that when it comes to a zombie apocalypse, or what the people of this novel assume to be a form of rabies. During a zombie apocalypse, if there was a virus that possibly was threatening humanity, the approach of eradicating infected areas in order to save the majority is a solution that should be looked into. This ideology is often tied to a morality and philosophical standpoint in which it would be more difficult to assume a definite position on the topic due to numerous types of situational problems regarding extremely specific examples. Some of these examples revolved around what type of people are being used in the scenario and what they can contribute to society. This is done to develop theories on the morality of this idea. Putting morality aside and viewing the ideology

Sci Fi O.R.P. Analytic Portion done on The War of the Worlds written by H. G. Wells Point of View The point of view of The War of the Worlds is first person. Although the point of view is through our protagonist and narrator, he is not all that exciting. Through this first person point of view the reader gets a more vivid explanation of what everything looks like including the town, other people, and of course the aliens that are invading Earth. In this novel the narrator also tells the reader about how others feel while still being in the narrator’s point of view, an example being when he talks about his brother’s experiences in London.

“Your strength is just an accident, arising from the weakness of others”, Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness.

In current time, a Marxist would argue that the ultimatum of all social and political actions is to obtain and maintaining economic power, implying that people base their decision wholly on enhancing their economical power as much as possible. As stated by Lois Tyson in her novel, Critical Theory Today, “economics is based on which the superstructure of social/political ideological realities are built” (54). Therefore, economic power is comprised of social and political power, which is why Marxists “refer to socioeconomic class, rather than economic class, when talking about the class structure” (54). The two distinct types of socioeconomic classes that Marxists mention are, the bourgeoisie, the few and very wealthy, powerful people who control all the world’s natural, economic, and human resources, and the proletariats, the ones who live under below average living conditions and perform all the manual labor and dirty work for the business owned by the bourgeoisie. In the novel, The War of the Worlds, reflecting on these Marxists beliefs, H.G Wells exemplifies the bourgeoisies and the proletariats, through the Martians and the humans, so as to illuminate and emphasize the destruction being caused by the imperialistic expansion of Great Britain, during the turn of the 19th century. Hence, Wells is welcoming us to denounce socioeconomic forces, along with criticizing imperialism by revealing its destructive nature through the Martians attack on the population of Great Britain.

The Martian Chronicles is not a story presented in a traditional way. Bradbury wrote a series of fictional short stories that are connected but are not distinctly alike. While exploring the alternate universe, the reader does so from the point of view of both Martians as well as humans. The style of writing alone is capturing, but the plot is a point of conversation. This book sparks the interest of any person that has wondered what is out there, beyond Earth. It makes any reader curious about the realities of humanity, politics, and what the universe holds. Questions about the possibility of atomic war and colonization of other planets arise as these topics are introduced in the book. Endless ideas are presented and it is easy to make connections to real-life present or historical events, leaving a lot to talk about.

The articles “war of the worlds” “NY times” and “Wells scares the nation” The war explains that the world was at war when people heard the first announcement. People thought that they were going to be bombed they were all listening to the radio but then missed the second announcement, because they were listening to another show. Then the second announcement came up but people didn’t hear it.

The book War of the Worlds took place in the 1890’s in England, and it’s plot revolves around an alien invasion in which thousands of people die. H.G. Wells, the author, successfully created a creative attack that left the humans helpless from the mysterious invasion of the Martians. As the book develops and becomes more enticing, it brings only one question to the reader's mind. If this invasion happened today, would it have gone the same way?

The “War of The Worlds’ by Orson Welles which was a radio drama the radio drama was produced by Orson Welles which was a fiction novel that aired on a Halloween night on 1938 the setting in the show was in New Jersey. In the radio drama"War of the Worlds' the actors in the show were specialized in making realistic sound effects and using voice impersonator for government officials and they also used real names and locations to they also made frequent weather and breaking news reports. They also used locations that people were familiar with. in the beginning of the radio drama which caused people to believe that the world was ending. The actors in war of the worlds were specialized