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Essay on Science Versus Religion in H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds

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Martians are trying to take over the world. We humans cannot defeat them. Even with our superlative weapons we are not managing to defeat the Martians. At the ends of the novel little tiny microorganisms are managing to defeat these Martians. The key themes and ideas are Industrialization, Imperialism and science vs. Religion. Industrialization means using off weapons or machines. This is shown in the Novel by H.G. Wells that the Martians are killing the human race by using off their machines and weapons. Imperialism means that creating an empire like United Kingdom just is. This is shown in the Novel by H.G. Wells that the Martians are trying to create their own empire by starting off with the great city London. Science vs. Religion had …show more content…

Evidence:”Within the five mile circle even the great majority of people were inert”. That means even the people who were the closest to the Martians they still carried on with their daily life. That actually shows us that ‘Social Order’ did not change. The word ‘inert’ is in fact very clever thought off because the word itself means that something does not react to something else and this is shown in the Novel by the populace not responding to the Martians and carrying on with their normal life. H.G. Wells could think about this word because he was a biology teacher and the word ‘inert’ is a scientific word. Only a few people went to that hole to have a look at it what actually happened. Evidence:”I found a little crowd of perhaps twenty people surrounding the huge hole in which the cylinder lay”. That shows us that ‘Social Order’ does not inert to the event that is happening to their great city. They have a better work to do then going to a cylinder landed from another planet. ‘Twenty people’ is a very low amount of people because we in this time would expect about 100 or 1000 of people ‘surrounding the huge hole in which the cylinder lay’, means again that ‘Social Order’ does not respond to that event at all. The reaction to a modern reader to this particularly event is very dissimilar because we at this time would all run away from the Martians. H.G. Wells did not write this in his Novel because at that time they did not had

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