War Of The Worlds Analysis

H.G Wells and Ray Bradbury both portray a world under attack by aliens, as stated previously. However while the two authors both depict alien invasions, each author portrays the reactions of these characters in contrasting ways. While Wells shows that the characters weren’t frantic, in fact they were prepared for the invasion, Bradbury’s characters were fearful and were ‘playing

    To understand how the ‘other side,’ or the different race, feels, it is important to consider their perspective. Bradbury delves into this in “Mars is Heaven!” when he addresses how the Martians view the incoming humans. The protagonist of his story considers that “Just suppose that there were Martians living on Mars and they saw our ship coming and saw us inside our ship and hated us” (219). The author points to how human beings may view Martians as otherworldly savages, although they may feel the same

this because all we do is work with our hands and use our brain a lot.

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,

Wars tends to have very primitive alien life, for example the wookies and ewoks. Droids

To help characterize the martians, Wells makes them unforgiving and cruel in their treatment of humans while giving them complex motives. The martians slaughter humans they come

In the novel The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, Martians and their tripods are the presentation of “monster”. Humans in the story show different feelings towards the monster in different stages, from curiosity to emotional detachment and denial. The paper aims at discussing those different reactions towards the monsters by dividing them into three stages. The first one is about the human’s curiosity and fascination towards Martians, while the extreme fear towards them will be discussed in the stage two. The final stage will discuss the emotional detachment and denial to the existence of the Martian.

In The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury there are many differences between humans and martians. One of the biggest ones, aside from the obvious being from different planets, physical appearance, and telepathy is that the humans want everything to do with the martians while the martians want nothing to do with the humans. This is shown by the humans knocking on doors constantly and even just walking into a martians house in “The Earth Men” and by the martians ignoring or even killing the humans before they even interact with them much.

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):

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

These nefarious extraterrestrials have shaped society by facilitating those changes most favorable to their ends, which is to use up the earth’s resources and terraform the planet so that it is more accommodating to their alien biology. These antagonists

Humans would interact with aliens and one side would overpower the other in order to gain a world order. That is expected in fiction but in watching The Day The Earth Stood Still the main purpose of it what for the alien and his partner in crime to warn humanity to either live in peace or be destroyed as a danger to other planets. There was no other option and I can imagine that happening based off of our society. If anyone on earth is the biggest threat, it is humans.

Decker does little to distinguish between the two stories, likely because both feature the Silurians, a reptilian race inhabiting subterranean earth. Both stories stand the Silurians up against humanity, and humanity finds that “‘we have met the aliens and they are us’” (CITE). Rather than using a human base under an alien siege to address those things humans fear, these stories show a more dastardly side of humanity, making them the ones to be feared. Decker specifically mentions that, “Both tales explore the evils of colonialism and the limits of communalism through inverting the normal dynamic of invasion from without” (CITE). A brief plot explanation makes it clear that in both of these stories, humans are no better than their “alien” counterparts, and may very well be

In these films, along with their numerous brethren, the alien invaders were “often a metaphor for Communism” (Dirks).

Ray Bradbury’s Zero Hour and H.G. Well’s War of the World's are after what would happen if the Earth was under attacked by E. T creatures. Both of their books are extremely similar, with their characters and story.