Who Is The Narrator In The War Of The World's By H. G. Wells

Have you ever been so annoyed while in a stressful situation. Well while we take a look at the book The War Of The World's by H.G.Wells we will experience what it is like to be in this situation. The two main characters we will experience this with will be the narrator who is a main character in the story and then also the curate who is also a main character. The narrator and the curate managed to find themselves in a sticky situation. They are currently stuck inside a house and outside this house are martians who are patrolling outside of the house and the narrator and the curate are inside. The curate is not being extremely helpful in the matter that he is losing control of himself at a very bad time. The curate as we know is a religious man so from the diction that he is using as he is losing his mind, it’s in a way that he is talking to God asking him why …show more content…
The narrator shows his irritation with the curate by saying “nothing i could do would moderate his speech”, which means as the curate began to speak louder the narrator tried to keep the curate calm and keep him quiet but nothing he could say or do would make him quiet. As the text continues the narrator becomes more irritated with the curate because the curate starts exclaiming “It is just, O God!” over and over again. The curate is feeling guilty about his life and how he has treated others. At the end of this section of passage Wells uses a biblical allusion, “The wine press of God!”, to express how the curate felt and all the emotions that he had been feeling. As the curate continued to ramble on the irritation of the narrator continues to grow. Explain the context for the winepress of God. What emotions does it suggest and why? Keep in mind, also, that your focus needs to be on the narrator’s emotions -- so the curate’s feelings only matter as they help us understand the