Animalistic Characteristic
What would you do if the world were to end? Or, in which would be more accurate, what would you do if immediate death were threatening you and everyone else on the planet? In The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, in the chapter labeled “The Heat-Ray in the Chobham Road” (chapter six) and “The Death of the Curate” (chapter 4, second part/book) he makes his ideas about humanity clear with themes such as, that most people lose their senses when it comes to life and death. First off, when struck with fear of immediate life or death, people only care about their own safety and survival mode kicks in. And that is, even if it cost the lives of other people. In chapter six of the first book, there is a part where people …show more content…
The curate began doing dumb things that clearly were only helpful in getting the narrator and himself killed. For instance, his unstable shouting of religious preachings, “"I have been still too long," he said, in a tone that must have reached the pit, "and now I must bear my witness. Woe unto this unfaithful city! Woe! Woe! Woe! Woe! Woe! To the inhabitants of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet----"” (156-157 Wells), signifies his entire reliance on God and his loss of common sense. He lost mental capability and he was incompetent, which made survival for the narrator harder. To the narrator, the curate is what kept himself sane, “but I am inclined to think that the weakness and insanity of the curate warned me, braced me, and kept me a sane man.” (156 Wells) and that made him a good survivor. Because of all that, he was sort of a hero type character. What Wells is also trying to say here is that humans are creatures who learn from their mistakes. They also grow stronger with every experience they have, and maybe also what they don’t have. For example fiction novels are experiences that never happened, yet people learn and expand their mind from the things that happen inside that
What would you do if the world were to end? Or, in which would be more accurate, what would you do if immediate death were threatening you and everyone else on the planet? In The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, in the chapter labeled “The Heat-Ray in the Chobham Road” (chapter six) and “The Death of the Curate” (chapter 4, second part/book) he makes his ideas about humanity clear with themes such as, that most people lose their senses when it comes to life and death. First off, when struck with fear of immediate life or death, people only care about their own safety and survival mode kicks in. And that is, even if it cost the lives of other people. In chapter six of the first book, there is a part where people …show more content…
The curate began doing dumb things that clearly were only helpful in getting the narrator and himself killed. For instance, his unstable shouting of religious preachings, “"I have been still too long," he said, in a tone that must have reached the pit, "and now I must bear my witness. Woe unto this unfaithful city! Woe! Woe! Woe! Woe! Woe! To the inhabitants of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet----"” (156-157 Wells), signifies his entire reliance on God and his loss of common sense. He lost mental capability and he was incompetent, which made survival for the narrator harder. To the narrator, the curate is what kept himself sane, “but I am inclined to think that the weakness and insanity of the curate warned me, braced me, and kept me a sane man.” (156 Wells) and that made him a good survivor. Because of all that, he was sort of a hero type character. What Wells is also trying to say here is that humans are creatures who learn from their mistakes. They also grow stronger with every experience they have, and maybe also what they don’t have. For example fiction novels are experiences that never happened, yet people learn and expand their mind from the things that happen inside that