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The war of the worlds Essay

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The war of the worlds

This essay will discuss how chapter four ‘the cylinder unscrews’ is important to the novel as a whole. ‘‘The war of the worlds’’ was written by Herbert George Wells, the novel was written in response to several historical events. The most important one was the unification and militirisation of Germany. ‘The war of the worlds’ was written in
1894 which later in 1983 was aired on radio broadcast by Orson Wells.
The novel is about Martians invading earth because they can no longer survive on mars. The people try everything to get rid of the Martians but in the end nature wins against science. H.G. Wells has included a lot of science fiction in this story which makes this story effective.
In the 1st chapter …show more content…

‘A greyish rounded, bulk perhaps the size of a bear’ compared with the build up in the first three chapters (‘the Martians seem to have calculated their descent with amazing subtly- their mathematical learning’) the descriptions seems to be a great letdown. They seem ugly and clumsy not hi-tech. ‘Those who have never seen a living
Martian can scarcely imagine the strange horror.’ At this point the narrators views and feelings are very strong the narrator is horrified because of this the reader should be to, because the reader has believed and seen his views all way through the story, also this may also suggest that the narrator believes that us as the readers have seen the Martians before. To the end of the chapter the readers are made aware that the Martians are vulnerable ‘it had toppled over the brim of the cylinder.’

In the first sentence in the beginning paragraph the language used by the narrator is normal and calm ‘the sun was setting’ but then goes in to the paragraph and starts using much smaller vowels ‘hurrying’. The author has also used phonetic speech in this chapter when he meets the small boy ‘it’s a movin’…a screwin, and a screwin’ out. I don’t like it. Im a goin’ ‘ome. I am.’ This can be argued that Wells has included phonetic speech to show not only the educated are present around the pit or may have been used to show characterisation showing panic across society symbolising the lower class to run away while the

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