Resumo de The War Of The Worlds And Other Stories

H. G. WELLS. THE SCIENCE FICTION WORK.
With Herbert .George Wells, humanistic science fiction came back into play; his work veers between optimism and pessimism, but focuses squarely an the destiny and plight of the human race. A short story called the Lord of The Dynamos illustrates brilliantly his views on religion; it concerns a brutal racist who forces n young Negro stowaway to work in his electricity generation plant; but the Negro, Azumazi begins to venerate the dynamo as a God; which affects his ability to do his job. The boss tries to sack Azumazi, who throws him into the dynamo, killing him, and pursued by the police, throws himself in too. The moral at the end says it all; ?so ended prematurely the worship of the dynamo deity, perhaps the must short lived of all religions, yet withal, it could at least boast a martyrdom and a Human Sacrifice?. Wells was a satirist, warring and warning against complacency and blind faith in the inevitability of humanity making progress towards scientific enlightenment. The Time Machine, (1895) the first time travel story (bar Dickens's Christmas Carol), has the unnamed hero plunging into the future and seeing what humans will eventually evolve into. He finds class division; the bourgeois Eloi live above ground in decadent apathy and indifference; if one of them is drowning the rest just watch; lacking any motivation to preservation of the lives of their own kind, . The working class have become the predatory Morlocks; living underground; preying on the Eloi at night. We have evolved into an embodiment of our social prejudices. It is a disturbing vision. The Island Of Dr. Moreau (1896) demonstrates that man is not inherently evil, but inherently animal. Moreau takes wild animals and accelerates their evolution into human beings; Prendick, the narrator, shipwrecked onto Moreau?s island isn't fooled by the Beast men; knowing by the story conclusion that ?Each of these Creatures, despite its human form, its rag of clothing, and the rough humanity of bodily form, had woven into it, into its movements, into the expression of its countenance, into its whole presence, the unmistakable mart of the beast.? Moreau conditions the Beast Men to renounce their bestial savagery; and even gives them a religion; enforced through Moreau's god-playing brutality and his hell like torture chamber, the house of pain. ?Not to suck up drink, that is the Law. Are we not men? Not to eat Flesh, or Fish, that is the law; are we not men?? Moreau is feared as a God of wrath; ?His is the hand that wounds. His is the hand that heals.? The beast men are forced to pray. The awful experiment fails; the animal within the creatures reasserts itself. Moreau is killed in the truly terrifying rampage. Prendick, sole survivor, tells us how, once back in to civilized society; ?I could nut persuade myself that the men and women I met were not also another, still passably human Beast People, animals half wrought into the outward image of human souls; and that they would begin to revolt, to show first this bestial mark, and then that?. - Of course it won't happen. Are we not Human? The War Of The Worlds (1898) shows humanity's faith in its ability to overcome all obstacles destroyed by a Martian invasion force that overcomes all religious faith, and military powers. The Martians win the war; and they turn London into a new Martian landscape; the priest loses his faith; the soldier becomes a coward; people are reduced to mere existence. This is humanity humbled before forces beyond its powers of comprehension. Stories of unstoppable invading armies were common in military, but earthly literature. Wells simply made the invading army an utterly alien one. Finally, the Martians are beaten, not by any human act, but by a lack of immunity to Earth's microorganisms; Humanity re-emerges in cowed wariness of its limited, non-divine status. Wells was often accused of being too pessimistic; and even of being of being anti-science;he also saw the necessity of striving fur progress. Wells gave nobility to the tragedy of our endless quest for knowledge. He was truly a Humanist; concerned with the fate of our entire species. Wells highlighted the possibilities and dangers of our questing, and boldly ongoing voyage. Wells also gave us The Invisible Man, a scientist driven mad by the success of his own experiments. The Invisible man cannot sleep because he can see through his own eyelids. He has to stay cleaner than anyone else because mud and spatter would betray his presence. The regime needed to keep him secreted from the world drives him insane. Here is the scientist who fails to see through the full consequences of his actions. Only in death is he seen for what he really was, flesh and blood. It is shown in that he becomes visible from the inside out. Wells slowly turned into a prophet,. His stories depict much that came to pass even within his lifetime. He began to speculate more and more lavishly, seeing himself as a new Nostradamus. Of course he also wrote a great deal of non-science fiction, like Kipps (filmed as Half a sixpence), and an important social reformer, as a member of the Fabian Society among other activity. But for many, it?s the Time Machine and the Martian tripod that give him true immortality.

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