Human Nature In H. G. Well's The War Of The Worlds

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H.G. Well's The War of the Worlds explores human nature in an event in a major calamity and is one of the major propellers of the science fiction genre, and additional tells its from a very human point of view. IMportant points of the story would be that of the comparison of humans and that of the martians. That we humans are really the same as the martians, that the only real difference are the different in races. The human colonized people of the lands they want, killing the aboriginal people of the land or enslaving them. The martians have done more or less the same that the humans are doing. They are now colonizing earth and eliminating the human race to make earth fir for their needs. Other themes explored where humans lie in the world.

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