H. G. Wells

There are a number of distinct symbols in H.G. Wells’ short story “The Beautiful Suit” that contribute to its meaning. The most obvious symbol is the “beautiful suit” itself. The mother insists the...

"The Stolen Bacillus" is a short satire that focuses on the role of science in human society, making it thematically similar to many of Wells' other works. The story begins with a bacteriologist...

H.G. Wells' short story The Magic Shop tells the story of Gip and his father's strange visit to the eponymous store. Attracted by the items displayed in the window, Gip implores his father to enter...

In "The Stolen Bacillus" by H.G. Wells there is humor because of the dramatic irony that occurs at various points in the story. Dramatic irony occurs when the audience has more insight about the...

When the story opens, we are in the home lab of a bacteriologist. The bacteriologist has a visitor, a “pale-faced man” with “lank black hair and deep grey eyes…[a] haggard expression and nervous...

I think an interesting approach to understanding H.G. Wells’s short story “The Star” (1897) is by paying particularly close attention to its beginning and end. After launching us straight into the...

One distinct theme of this story is that things are not always as they appear. At the beginning of the story we are introduced to our two main characters: a bacteriologist working in a lab in...

At the beginning of the story the Anarchist is described repeatedly as "pale-faced," and also as "haggard," which suggests illness, tiredness or lifelessness. Only when he speaks of the deadly...

In H. G. Wells's short story "The Magic Shop," the narrator and his son pass by what looks like a toy store that features articles said to be of magic. Led by little Gip, the narrator enters the...

At the beginning of the story the narrator describes his elderly "custodians" as "crouching and atavistic." He says also that there is, to his mind, "something inhuman in senility." The narrator...

In "The Stolen Bacillus," the "pale-faced man" is an anarchist who gains access to the Bacteriologist's laboratory by means of deception. He does this by forging a "letter of introduction" which...

H.G. Wells's "The Stolen Bacillus" is a satirical short story about the potential role of science and scientists in facilitating bio-terrorism. This is done by having a very intelligent...

In H. G. Wells's short story “The Magic Shop,” the narrator and his young son, Gip, go on quite an adventure when they enter into a mysterious magic shop. They witness all kinds of magic performed...

Science figures prominently in H. G. Wells’s story “The Star” but is not always shown in a positive light. Initially, the unnamed third-person narrator implies that scientific knowledge is beyond...

"The Stolen Bacillus" by H.G. Wells is a satiric short story about the potential dangers posed by the world of science. Satire is using humor or wit as a form of ridicule which exposes flaws or...

The most prominent theme in the “The Red Room” is fear. In fact, the narrator’s sole purpose for being at Lorraine Castle is to challenge the reputation of the room that has caused everyone to fear...

H.G. Well's short story "The Stolen Bacillus" is not so much a chilling satire of the dangers of science but rather a chilling satire of the way in which future scientists may serve as the enablers...

"The Stolen Bacillus" belongs to the genre of science fiction and, to understand why, it is useful to look at a relevant definition. According to the University of California, for example, a...

The narrator of H. G. Wells’s “The Red Room” agrees to spend a night alone in a room that has the reputation of being haunted. Because he does not believe in spirits, he intends to prove that the...

When analyzing "The Star," I suspect the most important question that could guide your thinking on the subject is this: how does H. G. Wells view science in the story? More basically, does he view...

Satire is a technique used by writers to criticize/ridicule mankind and/or his institutions. Satire specifically uses humor in order to perform the ridicule and point out flaws or faults. The...

I think one way that the narrator contrasts the Anarchist and the Bacteriologist is by focusing quite a bit on the Anarchist's physical traits. We are told repeatedly that the Anarchist is...

One value that is embedded in the work is the idea of making the world a better place. Wells is a Progressive thinker. The construction of a time machine that enables the individual view the...

It's difficult to understand the question as presently written. If this is an assignment you have been given by a teacher, might it be possible to get the teacher to put the question in writing?...

In "The Stolen Bacillus," the Anarchist is not the victim of a deliberate prank, in the traditional sense. In fact, the Bacteriologist has no idea that his visitor is an anarchist who intends to...

The stranger in The Invisible Man is Griffin. Griffin is a scientist who has successfully created an elixir which he uses on himself to become invisible. However, he quickly realizes that being...

A major portion of that story is focused on showing readers that scientists are so absorbed in their work that they don't anticipate its possible missuses. In other words, the story is stating...

This quote appears in Wells's Secret Places of the Heart. This autobiographical novel features Sir Richmond Hardy, an English gentleman who is having marital problems and traveling the countryside....

If there is a similarity between the two, it lies in their both living in a kind of rarefied world of their own design, cut off in some way from other people. The bacteriologist is the typical...