War Of The Worlds Analysis

Part 1 Summary: The novel “Sophia’s War” written by Avi is about a girl name Sophia Calderwood and the Revolutionary War that is happening between the American and the British. When the British take over New York, the Americans aren’t treated so well. The British burned the most beautiful parts of the city and now those parts had become less beautiful. People become poor and were now keeping distance from one another. In New York misery and despair was everywhere. With this in mind, taken prisoner by the British was William but it wasn’t just William but other Americans that were with him too. No one was able to visit the prisoners, being that, since Sophia and her father had a job, they had enough money to bribe the soldiers to let them see

The Civil War caused a shift in the ways that many Americans thought about slavery and race. Chandra Manning’s What this Cruel War Was Over helps readers understand how soldiers viewed slavery during the Civil War. The book is a narrative, which follows the life of Union soldier who is from Massachusetts. Chandra Manning used letters, diaries and regimental newspapers to gain an understanding of soldiers’ views of slavery. The main character, Charles Brewster has never encountered slaves. However, he believes that Negroes are inferior. He does not meet slaves until he enters the war in the southern states of Maryland and Virginia. Charles Brewster views the slaves first as contraband. He believes the slaves are a burden and should be sent back to their owners because of the fugitive slave laws. Union soldiers focus shifted before the end of the war. They believed slavery was cruel and inhumane, expressing strong desire to liberate the slaves. As the war progresses, soldiers view slaves and slavery in a different light. This paper, by referring to the themes and characters presented in Chandra Manning’s What this Cruel War Was Over, analyzes how the issue of slavery and race shifted in the eyes of white Union soldiers’ during Civil War times.

“Reports of suicides and panic-related deaths.” (Pooley, Socolow 5) These are some of the claims reported after the famous radio broadcast of the book The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells was conducted by Orson Welles on October 30th, 1938. It was set-up and produced to sound like a news broadcast that had sudden “interruptions.” The broadcast included many noises and sounds such as Martians landing and scientists “analyzing” them. While many newspapers claimed that the broadcast “stirred terror through the U.S.” (1) Less than 2% of everyone listening to their radios that evening heard it and even fewer believed it! There are many speculations as to why the broadcast is so famous. The so called “terror inducing” (2) broadcast is famous because people believed that it was real, newspapers made a big hype about it, and it was such a phenomenon that people believed it.

The bombs were considered a winning weapon and blocked out painful questions about the moral consequences of this technology. They refer to America’s actions against Hiroshima pushed them into moral inversion because of their avoidance of moral and historical responsibility. Lifton and Mitchell’s remarks suggest that atomic bombs not only kill instantaneously, but it also harbours deadly generational potentials. Whereas other weapons at the time did not possess such deadly power. Hence, the reality of radiation made it hard for Americans to continue to rationalize this

Written in the 1940s, Arthur Miller’s play the crucible explores the hysteria, persecution, and lack of due process that characterized the 1692 Salem Trials. Arguably, the themes explored in this play resonate with many modern and historical events. Arthur Miller himself saw strong connection between the events surrounding the Red Scare in the 1950s. When juxtaposed with events of the crucible, themes of hysteria, persecution, and lack of due process also emerge from a study of the Japanese Internment Camps. In December 7 1941, one of the American colonies was attacked by Japan. After the Attack on Pearl Harbor, America was feared of the

Arthur Miller saw people's paranoia. He noticed this from the things he heard come from the mouth of senator Mccarthy such as. ‘’Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity.’’ Words like this coming from someone so high really shook people. A product of McCarthy’s work was the horrible view of the accused and how their families cut off all ties with them. After seeing stories like this Arthur felt compelled to speak out against the scare. On the topic he said things like this “It would probably never have occurred to me to write a play about the Salem witch trials of 1692 had I not seen

In the late 1940’s, hundreds of screenwriters, actors, actresses and entertainers of the Hollywood film industry faced charges of being subversive to America through spies for the Soviet Union. The FBI was accusing many Americans for being loyal to the communist country, this is similar to witch hunts that occurred in Salem, Massachusetts. The “Red Scare” and the Witch Trials both produced mass hysteria as a result of people’s irrational angst. The Crucible a play composed by American author, Arthur Miller who was many of the accused during the red scare, wrote this play about the town Salem that fell into mass hysteria after a group of girls Abigail Williams, Betty Parris, Ruth Putnam, Tituba and Mary Warren wrongfully accused townspeople

The year that the movie The War of the Worlds was released was 2005. That decade was a great time of science, bringing many discoveries and achievements, which made their way into the media as these were issues that were constantly on the minds of the public. The main science topics addressed in The War of the Worlds are extraterrestrial life and microorganisms. To illustrate my point, in the past 20 years, scientists have found the idea of life on other planets to be highly likely. We are supposed to even have proof of extraterrestrial lifeforms by about 2020 or 2025. (Our Prospective Neighbors From the Galaxy Next Door) Scientists are convinced that this could be the case as potential planets for holding life have already been discovered.

On October 30, 1938 Orson Welles would scared the nation with his radio broadcast titled “The War of the Worlds.” The American people became hysterical that an actual alien invasion was happening right before their ears. They could hear what was going on while it was broadcasting live on the radio. It was with this notion that Welles fooled his listeners. He could do this by interrupting the broadcast multiple times and have reporters interview eye witnesses. This came at a time when the American people relied on the radio for news and entertainment. Welles preyed on the notion that the American people relied on the radio for an understanding of the world in familiar terms. He would prove how easy American people believed in what they were told by the media and how they could be provoked into mass delusion.

Given that many plants need to be sown and then reaped when fully grown, the metaphorical conceptualization of people as plants may, accordingly, be elaborated to include a reaper, more specifically a conceptualization of death as the Grim Reaper (Lakoff & Turner, 1989, pp. 16, 75):

When we hear or read about a tragic story, our mind will often prompt us to read or hear the end result first and then glimpse over how the event actually came to that particular point. However, the events that led or caused the event to happen should also capture our attention as well because we would have a better understanding of the situation on a rounded spectrum. An example of a similar situation is the infamous event occurring in the spring of 1692. When Arthur Miller retold the event in the format of a play in 1967, the United States was recovering from WWII in 1945. In that period, the country was going through an overwhelming era of post-war paranoia and intolerance because the Communist Era shook people on an emotional level. There are many similarities between the Salem Witch Trials in 1692 and the communist paranoia in the U.S. in the 1960s. People were asked to point out names who they thought were in suspicion of being one of the wretched communists. As soon as a person’s name was called out, that person’s status diminished almost immediately along with their family members which a similar event occurred in Salem as well. Miller wanted to point out that if hysteria and paranoia continued, it could ultimately lead to the loss of innocent lives once again. Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” displays the lack of knowledge in medicine and psychology accompanied with the horrendous effects occurring from the causes led to the hanging of 19 people.

War is a dangerous game, many people would likely agree to this, however, very few have ever seen a battlefront. The truth is that war, no matter how awful we can imagine it, is always exponentially worse. In Timothy Findley’s The Wars, Robert Ross, the protagonist,­ faces a situation that he finds difficult to come to terms with, and when faced with a similar situation later on in the novel, he must take drastic measures to reconcile the uncertainties of the past situation. Timothy Findley suggests, through the life of Robert Ross, that one’s need to reconcile the uncertainties of past experiences dominate our actions when such situations come up again in our lives. In the words of Hiram Johnson, a US Senator during the First World War,

New Historicists look at events occurring in the world at the time a literary work was written. Arthur Miller, the author of The Crucible, was accused of being a Communist in 1957 during The Red Scare. “In developing his script, when Miller visited Salem in 1952 he immediately realized the parallels between Salem in 1692 and the then-current United States” (“Why I Wrote The Crucible”). The parallels are what caused him to write the play. The citizens of the United States and Salem were both plagued with anxiety. Is it human nature to follow into and/or create mass hysteria? During The Red Scare and The Crucible innocent people were condemned, and the injustice of the matter amplified

Through satire and irony using her perspective as an Iraqi woman, Dunya Mikhail personifies war as a machine, rather than the traditional masculine perspective of heroism on the battlefield. In “The War Works Hard” war is never ending; it is relentless and without mercy as it destroys everything in its path, leaving an endless generational wake of scars among the civilian victims caught in the zone that the war has chosen. The war scars forever.

“It's the end of the world” (Welles Scares Nation-oct 30, 1938).The document “Welles Scares Nation” by H.G. Wells, lets us infer that many people believed earth was under attack by martians.This was a radio drama produced by Orson Welles on the night of halloween in New Jersey.Welles was 23 and he was really well known by people.Although earth wasn't under attack many people believed it was real due to Welles great actors, amazing sound effects, and we can infer that many people missed the first and second announcement.Why did many people believe earth was under attack by martians? The broadcaster Welles had used state of the arch sound effects. According to a radio listener the broadcast sounded real.People can infer that anyone who was listening