The Narrator In Arthur Miller's 'The War Of The Worlds'

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I see the narrator as more of a moody man, there are at least two issues about the narrator that mark him out as kind of a weird guy. The first issue might actually make him a better narrator; the second i'm not so sure about. I'm not even sure these two issues really can exist in the same person at the same time. Issue #1 is that the narrator is unemotional "At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all." That sounds like a useful trait for a narrator who is telling us about stressful, tragic events. Instead of getting caught up in his own emotions, he …show more content…

In The War of the Worlds, Martians invade England. Martians arrive in London, quickly taking control of the city. Despite their best efforts, the humans are unable to fend off the Martians and their deadly assault. The aliens soon overrun the planet. The Martians aren't prepared for Earth's bacteria, however, and don't have the antibodies to fight off viruses. Their nervous systems are destroyed, and they die not from a human assault, but from illness. The narrator suspects the object has come from Mars, but he does not think that it contains a living being. Although scientists have speculated about intelligent life on Mars, it comes as a complete surprise to England when Martians …show more content…

War of the worlds is told in first person and is narrated throughout the book by one person, who mostly tells us his own story. That's a totally normal first-person approach: the main character is the unnamed narrator who tells us all about his adventures during the Martian invasion.

9. The narrator tells us his story so he is the main character, we're introduced to other characters like his wife and brother but we know about them by how he feels about them. The narrator is the main character telling us about his life.

10. The narration is in first person the narrator is talking about himself and how he went through this. We're told how other characters are feeling through the point of view of the narrator but he does change it up the narrator tells us about stuff that he didn't see or couldn't possibly know about at the time. The biggest example is the three chapters that are devoted to the adventures of his brother. Not only does he tell us all about what his brother did, he also tells us what his brother thought or