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The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds is not only a science fiction masterpiece written by H.G. Wells in the late-nineteenth century, but also reflects in part the attitude toward science of English society during...
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The War of the Worlds
This is a good question. A little historical information might help you. H. G. Wells studied under the noted scholar Huxley, who was a proponent of social Darwinism. Moreover, it is good to realize...
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The War of the Worlds
The opening paragraph of the story is written from the perspective of a retrospective narrator. It reads like a historical account of a momentous event. There is in the opening paragraph lots of...
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The War of the Worlds
The Martians are eventually killed by earth-bound microorganisms, slain by "putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared". Despite their vast technological...
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The War of the Worlds
Nineteenth-century science fiction often focuses upon man's ability to achieve things beyond the scope of what had been thought possible in the pre-technological, pre-industrial age. Jules Verne,...
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The War of the Worlds
The narrator is the main character, however the name of the first-person narrator of the novel is never given to the reader. What we do know is that he is a philosopher, working on series of papers...
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The War of the Worlds
When the narrator of this excellent novel stumbles into the artilleryman again in Book II, Chapter Seven, it is clear that the artilleryman is a consummate dreamer. His plans to live underground...
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The War of the Worlds
The Heat-Ray used by the Martians is utterly deadly. It appears harmlessly enough as a beam of light and is silent, but anyone or anything it touches is instantly consumed and charred by heat. It...
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The War of the Worlds
One example of imagery in The War of the Worlds is the following: Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and...
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The War of the Worlds
The first person to come across the fallen Martian spacecraft is the astronomer Ogilvy. He had been observing Mars at the moment there was an apparent explosion or expulsion of something, and so...
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The War of the Worlds
I'm not sure Wells meant to say that science and technology were inherently dangerous or bad. Wells was a proponent of Darwin's theory of evolution. The conflict between science and religion is...
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The War of the Worlds
The Curate is a priest who has survived the initial attacks, but finds his faith insufficient to deal with the reality of the Martians; he also finds his faith shaken, as the seemingly random...
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The War of the Worlds
The theory of evolution simply says that species change over time. I believe that the intent of your question is asking about Darwinian evolution. Darwinian evolution hinges on the concepts of...
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The War of the Worlds
The enotes section entitled Themes goes into some of these in great detail, you can find that here: http://www.enotes.com/war-worlds/46163 But briefly, thinking about Man versus machine, for...
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The War of the Worlds
It is funny you should ask this as I recently watched Battle: Los Angeles and thought to myself how much the film industry had been impacted by this excellent novel. If you think about it, so many...
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The War of the Worlds
The dying Martian is described as making a ‘howling’ sound, a repetition of two notes, 'ulla ulla ulla' (Part II, chapter 8). At first, when wandering through ‘dead London’ (to quote the title of...
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The War of the Worlds
In Book 2, chapter 8, the Martians begin dying because they have no resistance to the smallest inhabitants of Earth: bacteria and other microbes. The narrator notices that other people are becoming...
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The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds is narrated by an unnamed man, usually considered to be a pastiche of H.G. Wells himself. The Narrator is very cool and collected, and able to think logically even in...
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The War of the Worlds
Most contemporary analyses of The War of the Worlds compare it to European Imperialism and expansion; with their superior technology, the Martians (Europeans) invade the weaker nation of England...
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The War of the Worlds
Many quotes and lines from The War of the Worlds have gone on to act as quintessential science-fiction tropes in literature and film. For example, the very first lines: No one would have believed...
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The War of the Worlds
The famous radio broadcast is a version of the H.G. Wells novel that is telescoped into a one-hour format. Since many of the original listeners believed the book was a live report of events as they...
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The War of the Worlds
This is a good question. In H.G. Wells' 1989 novel War of the Worlds, the novel's characters are seldom named (exceptions are Ogilvy, the astronomer who first detects activity coming from Mars, and...
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The War of the Worlds
Wells makes the parallels between the Martians and human colonists quite explicit at the very start of the novel, when in the middle of a cool scientific exposition on the Martians he inserts the...
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The War of the Worlds
After the first Martian exits the cylinder, a deputation led by the Astronomer-Royal Stent makes the mistake of trying to make contact. They think that if they approach the Martians in peace,...
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The War of the Worlds
Ogilvy, an astronomer, is one of the first people to see the fallen ships that contains the first Martians. These are on the order of lifeboats, existing to get the Martians onto Earth safely. When...
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The War of the Worlds
Near the end of chapter 12 - "What I Saw of the Destructionof Weybridge and Shepperton" - in H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, a frenzied crowd, including the narrator, rush into the river to...
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The War of the Worlds
After the first Martian exits its cylinder, the crowd pulls back to the hedges and watches from a distance. People who were very curious are now scared, but the Royal Astronomer, Stent, puts...
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The War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells, as were other science fiction writers, was influenced by astronomical discoveries of the 19th Century. Of these, the most influential in terms of Wells' The War of the Worlds was...
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The War of the Worlds
Historical reports argue that the idea behind War of the Worlds was inspired by a novel that was previously released in 1871 by George Chesney called The Battle of Dorking. An "invasion novel" of...
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The War of the Worlds
In The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, a group of men fashion a white flag and attempt to approach an alien cylinder. In Book One, Chapter Five the group is described as a "little black knot of...
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The War of the Worlds
The mass hysteria that accompanied the October 30,1938, radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds caught Orson Welles and his theater group, Mercury, by complete surprise. Broadcast the...
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The War of the Worlds
In Chapter 12, the Narrator comes on a platoon of soldiers trying to help the evacuating citizens remain calm. After he explains what is happening, and views the resistance of the citizens to...
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The War of the Worlds
Yes, the Martians do have some sort of mirror that reflects and projects the light from their death ray. In Book 1, chapter 6, the narrator describes the terrible effects of this weapon. He calls...
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The War of the Worlds
This line comes at the end of the novel, as the narrator thinks back on the invasion and on the first time he saw a Martian craft, crash-landed in the dirt. And strange, too, it is to stand on...
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The War of the Worlds
While the era in which "The War of the Worlds" was initially broadcast that evening of October 30, 1938, undoubtedly contributed to the mass hysteria that resulted from fears of an alien invasion,...
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The War of the Worlds
If this is from Orson Welles' "Invasion from Mars," the original transcript from his radio broadcast, the answer would be C. large as a buffalo. Although at first, the creatures are described as...
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The War of the Worlds
The narrator of The War of the Worlds is never identified by name. He refers to a “great light” seen on the planet Mars in 1894, explaining that this was six years before the time when he is...
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The War of the Worlds
The death of the martians reflect Social Darwinism in that their species were not able to adapt to nor assimilate the environmental structure and situational circumstances that were presented to...
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The War of the Worlds
If the reference point is the radio broadcast in 1938, I think that one could argue several points as to why there was panic and hysteria inducted. One one hand, the time period was of significant...
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The War of the Worlds
The Martians have landed and are beginning their destructive takeover of Earth by Chapter 11 of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds. After the Martians release their Heat-Ray, the narrator decides he...
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The War of the Worlds
When the Mercury Theatre group presented its production of H.G. Welles' War of the Worlds over the radio on the evening of October 30, 1938, the American public was particularly susceptible to mass...
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The War of the Worlds
I believe the future is more grim than Wells might have imagined in his wildest dreams (and his dreams were awfully wild.) Therefore, I think the sentence would read, "In about two hundred years,...
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The War of the Worlds
Good question. Four perspectives combine in this classic work of science fiction. First and most literally, what's happening to humanity is viewed through the perspective of an educated human....
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The War of the Worlds
For the Martians or for humans? The book is rather pessimistic about a victory for humanity, but there is a shred of hope that the narrator gives, suggesting that even though the Martians will...
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The War of the Worlds
In 1938 Orson Wells and the CBS radio station broadcast a hoax based on H. G Wells “War of The Worlds”. In the broadcast he makes 2 allusions to Canada. The First allusion is when he mentions...
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The War of the Worlds
Evolution says that due to genetic variation, some organisms are better suited to their environment than others and survive to reproduce. In War of the Worlds, the Martians seem to be about to take...
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The War of the Worlds
It is interesting that Wells in this seminal text of alien invasion and the annexation of our world presents various characters as representing different responses to the sudden appearance of...
