War of the Worlds
The year 1897 was invaded by the science fictional novel War of the Worlds by the author H.G Wells. It is a first person narrative that takes place within the city of London, England. Aliens from the planet Mars had invaded Earth with the intention to conquer and enslave the human population, but against all the odds, the innocent narrator survives the villainous galactic beings. War of the Worlds incorporates the innocent main character, dominating extraterrestrials, nature against mechanistic symbolism and an initiation situation to be analysed from an archetypal approach.
The “Innocent” archetype surfaces around the world in many cultures and religious stories that share similarities of doing the righteous action, trusting …show more content…
Nature rescues the humans from the Martians by bacteria, “... the Martians— DEAD!—slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared …” (273). The humans were presumably immune to the bacteria that the aliens were not knowledgeable of, and vulnerable too. Furthermore, the aliens portray the mechanistic world by scientifically advanced technology. As mentioned before, the heat-ray is a device that can instantly destroy anything with the use of high temperature and fire. Another advanced technology is the fighting machines or tripods. The tripods brought chaos and doom on earth, when the narrator first saw it he described it as “...a monstrous tripod, higher than many houses... a walking engine of glittering metal... articulate ropes of steel dangling from it....” (69).The technology that the aliens use are weapons of mass destruction, brought pain and chaos onto earth. Therefore, the novel is proven to have the archetypal symbol of “Nature vs mechanistic …show more content…
He understands animals, the need to care for one another, and the competition of life after the alien attack. The narrator has compared himself countless times to animals, for example “ I felt as a rabbit might feel returning to his burrow … that I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel” (232). This comparison implies that no longer the narrator might scare or capture animals, also on page 240 the narrator says “Surely, if we have learned nothing else, this war has taught us pity—pity for those witless souls that suffer our dominion.“. The narrator is giving pity to animals as the humans treat them as lower lifeforms. The narrator also understands the need to care for others, in the beginning of the novel, people were “...elbowing and jostling one another...” (26), giving no care to each other, on the other hand near the end the narrator found people who “...cumbered themselves with [the narrator], sheltered [the narrator], and protected [the narrator] from myself. “(270), these people showed compassion to one another in a time of need. Finally, the narrator realizes the need for survival because of the Martian invasion. In the beginning of the
The year 1897 was invaded by the science fictional novel War of the Worlds by the author H.G Wells. It is a first person narrative that takes place within the city of London, England. Aliens from the planet Mars had invaded Earth with the intention to conquer and enslave the human population, but against all the odds, the innocent narrator survives the villainous galactic beings. War of the Worlds incorporates the innocent main character, dominating extraterrestrials, nature against mechanistic symbolism and an initiation situation to be analysed from an archetypal approach.
The “Innocent” archetype surfaces around the world in many cultures and religious stories that share similarities of doing the righteous action, trusting …show more content…
Nature rescues the humans from the Martians by bacteria, “... the Martians— DEAD!—slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared …” (273). The humans were presumably immune to the bacteria that the aliens were not knowledgeable of, and vulnerable too. Furthermore, the aliens portray the mechanistic world by scientifically advanced technology. As mentioned before, the heat-ray is a device that can instantly destroy anything with the use of high temperature and fire. Another advanced technology is the fighting machines or tripods. The tripods brought chaos and doom on earth, when the narrator first saw it he described it as “...a monstrous tripod, higher than many houses... a walking engine of glittering metal... articulate ropes of steel dangling from it....” (69).The technology that the aliens use are weapons of mass destruction, brought pain and chaos onto earth. Therefore, the novel is proven to have the archetypal symbol of “Nature vs mechanistic …show more content…
He understands animals, the need to care for one another, and the competition of life after the alien attack. The narrator has compared himself countless times to animals, for example “ I felt as a rabbit might feel returning to his burrow … that I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel” (232). This comparison implies that no longer the narrator might scare or capture animals, also on page 240 the narrator says “Surely, if we have learned nothing else, this war has taught us pity—pity for those witless souls that suffer our dominion.“. The narrator is giving pity to animals as the humans treat them as lower lifeforms. The narrator also understands the need to care for others, in the beginning of the novel, people were “...elbowing and jostling one another...” (26), giving no care to each other, on the other hand near the end the narrator found people who “...cumbered themselves with [the narrator], sheltered [the narrator], and protected [the narrator] from myself. “(270), these people showed compassion to one another in a time of need. Finally, the narrator realizes the need for survival because of the Martian invasion. In the beginning of the