Hg Wells The War Of The Worlds Sparknotes

In a small quiet town of Woking, England, a large cylinder from another world, came crashing down into the countryside. Nobody had ever expected Martians to soon invade England and try to destroy humankind. The Martians went around the countryside in their tripods, burning everything in sight with heat rays and killing people with black ink vapor. The humans tended to dismiss the Martians at first. The British people and army could not organize a common defense due to their complacency of everyday living. As a science fiction author, H.G Wells shows us that humans are unconscious of worlds larger than themselves in the book of, The War of the Worlds. From this book, Wells tells us that human beings tend to be arrogant, never give into a superior force and panic when danger is near and forget to be rational in their thinking. H.G Wells points out

One issue in The War of the Worlds that is reappearing is how human beings tend to be arrogant and place themselves superior to all living things. For example, the narrator, who is a journalist, took a friend that is an astronomer to see a meteorite falling. They soon found a strange cylinder falling that would soon be containing the “Martians”. The public authorities assumed nothing of it, and did nothing to keep the area enclosed and off limits to the public. Then the narrator decides to take a walk with his wife, the two noticed colorful bright lights in the sky, but thought nothing of them. Even though there was a strange phenomenon in the sky, they were too arrogant to think anything of it. Ignoring crashing Martian cylinders and unidentified bright