Thursday, December 18, 2014

review of Wells' War of the Worlds

An excellent analysis of the rise of industry I.e. the Martians and its breaking down of society. The aliens are not benevolent and their goal is not to integrate. They are machines out to kill all of the human race. The machines are used beautifully to represent the rise of industrialization within the British society. It was not the Victorian age, but it was the pivotal time in between that determined the fate of future society. The society was pulled down and the people practically and literally ripped apart from the change that is represented within the book.

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