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Running head: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
Comparative analysis of The War of the Worlds
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Comparative analysis of The War of the Worlds
Name of the Student
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Author Note
1COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
Books and movies have an unique feature of show casing a particular event which
is likely to occur. It depends on the imagination of the author and the director to make
the issue credible to the extent they want (Partington, 2017). However, the main
objective of an author or director is to grab the attention of their readers and audience.
They wish to propagate a particular idea in the society which they want people to
know about. In this respect, this essay tries to understand the idea behind H.G Well’s
“War of the Worlds”. In this novel, the dispute which is seen to be existing between
the imperialist notion that existed during the time of British colonialism and the
aspect of Martian attack on Earth. This paper seeks to examine how these two
unrelated yet similar incidents are related to each other.
The War of the Worlds was written by H.G Wells inn the year 1897 (James,
2016). It is considered to be a science fiction in the sense that there are lot of things
which require attention to the scientific field while trying to accommodate such
aspects within the broader frame work of the human society. The author has tried to
give a mystical yet humane appearance to this novel by combining within it the
aspects of the horrors of war as experienced during the time of British imperialism
and the likelihood of a Martian invasion on planet Earth (Murray and Wells, 2017).
The story starts with the wishes of the Martian to invade Earth during the late
nineteenth century, at a time when the entire human race was busy with their own
selfish motives (Cowan, 2016). The driving factor behind the Martian invasion was
that their resources were becoming scarce in a significant manner. The narrator of the
story was invited to observe the intentions of the Martians. Soon thereafter, he
discovered a Martian space craft near his home which contained a lot of alien species,
who came to Earth with the intention of ruling over them. The war on the human race
continued for quite some time (Cain and Hopkins, 2016). During their reign over the
Books and movies have an unique feature of show casing a particular event which
is likely to occur. It depends on the imagination of the author and the director to make
the issue credible to the extent they want (Partington, 2017). However, the main
objective of an author or director is to grab the attention of their readers and audience.
They wish to propagate a particular idea in the society which they want people to
know about. In this respect, this essay tries to understand the idea behind H.G Well’s
“War of the Worlds”. In this novel, the dispute which is seen to be existing between
the imperialist notion that existed during the time of British colonialism and the
aspect of Martian attack on Earth. This paper seeks to examine how these two
unrelated yet similar incidents are related to each other.
The War of the Worlds was written by H.G Wells inn the year 1897 (James,
2016). It is considered to be a science fiction in the sense that there are lot of things
which require attention to the scientific field while trying to accommodate such
aspects within the broader frame work of the human society. The author has tried to
give a mystical yet humane appearance to this novel by combining within it the
aspects of the horrors of war as experienced during the time of British imperialism
and the likelihood of a Martian invasion on planet Earth (Murray and Wells, 2017).
The story starts with the wishes of the Martian to invade Earth during the late
nineteenth century, at a time when the entire human race was busy with their own
selfish motives (Cowan, 2016). The driving factor behind the Martian invasion was
that their resources were becoming scarce in a significant manner. The narrator of the
story was invited to observe the intentions of the Martians. Soon thereafter, he
discovered a Martian space craft near his home which contained a lot of alien species,
who came to Earth with the intention of ruling over them. The war on the human race
continued for quite some time (Cain and Hopkins, 2016). During their reign over the
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