The War of the Worlds by H G Wells
This discussion will aim to explain what techniques H.G Well’s uses, which makes ‘War Of The Worlds’ a gripping and successful story.
In This novel is basically about one mans account of Martians invasion and war on earth; throughout this play reality and fantasy bonded together to form the novel ‘The War Of The Worlds’. This novel was written at the turn of the century in 1998. There was a couple of events that inspired wells to write this story on of which was that in
1894 mars was positioned particularly closely to earth, leading to great deal of observation and discussion. Another event would be also in 1894 when an observer M. Javelle of Nice, claimed to have seen a strange light on
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The reason for this is that at one point the Martians are attacking somewhere else in another area and the original narrator could not reach there so the brother narrates instead. H.G Wells chose not to continue with his own narrative techniques as I think he wanted the readers to hear about other peoples views and opinions and their account of what was going on so that it was not just him narrating throughout the whole of the story otherwise this might of made it quite boring.
Quite early on in the novel we find out that the narrator is from middle class background because of the company he keeps,
“I might not have heard of the eruption at all had I not met Ogilvy, the astronomer at otter Shaw.”
A large amount of the novel consists of the mixing of science fact and science fiction, which in the end bonds together and makes the reader feel as if it all together is a fact. This story is filled with suspense this is one of the things that makes the readers read on.
“The planet mars, I scarcely need to remind the reader revolves about the sun at a mean distance of 140,000,000 miles”
This is giving the reader fact to try to get them interested and to make their mind believe that there is a possibility of life on mars.
“And the light and heat that it receives from the sun is barely half of that received by this world” the narrator only gives reasons why there has to
H.G. Wells demonstrates proper use of different literacy techniques throughout The War of the Worlds. The first technique that he uses is descriptive language. Throughout the story, he uses his words to describe characters or his surroundings. One example would be when he states “the turf and gravel about it seemed charred as if by a sudden explosion.” (pp. 11). This statement describes the narrator's surroundings. He also uses descriptive language when describing the Martians, by stating their physical characteristics. A specific example would include when the narrator is describing the Martian's behavior in Chapter Two of the second book. Also, Wells also uses foreshadowing as a technique. At the end of Chapter Five in Book One, the Martians
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In a book called The War of the Worlds what would you expect the major conflict to be, and the climax. Actually chances are, you’re wrong. The story actually has three running conflicts, each from their own point of view one of which you have guessed but that’s not even the main one.
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this because all we do is work with our hands and use our brain a lot.
In 1953, the peak of the Cold War and Communist Red Scare, Byron Haskin released the allegorical film, The War of the Worlds; a commentary on the anxiety that was ever present due to the Soviet Union, Communism, and the threat of nuclear war. The film is loosely based on H.G. Well's novel of the same name, and stars Gene Barry. The War of the Worlds establishes commentary on the technology and religious beliefs birthed of the 50's, and the struggle that was created due to the Cold War in the “Age of Anxiety”.
The analogy that martians treat humans the same way that humans treat animals appears in The War of the Worlds. This literary becomes commonplace as the novel progresses and the reader understands more about the creatures and their behavior. Darwin’s theory of survival of the fittest is incorporated into the analogy to further the idea that the martians has similar ideas about their race as people. The author, Wells, uses the analogy that humans are like animals to martians to characterize the martians as creatures that have similar thoughts and actions to humans.
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
War of the Worlds is a novel written by Herbert George (H.G.) Wells in the year 1898. It is a story of and alien invasion that takes place in London, England and how humanity as a whole come together in the toughest possible situation, against the odds, and in the face of adversity, and still come out victorious despite the countless numbers of dead. Destroyed buildings and landmarks. And at times loss of hope. In this report, I will be discussing three of the most important terms of the book: conflict, setting, and motif. The conflict, setting, and motif of War of the Worlds is: Man vs. Martian, early 20th century London, and Death (as the motif).
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
I loved listening to the radio production of War of the Worlds. I have an affinity for radio productions though, and I have an embarrassingly large library of them at home that I listen to with my kids. Every time I hear about how people believed that earth was really being invaded, I’m reminded of the 1999 release of the movie The Blair Witch Project, in which moviegoers were convinced ahead of time (through excellent marketing) that the film was a real documentary regarding paranormal activity.
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