War of the Worlds: Religion

Question 1

curate insurance

Book 1 Chapter 13

Answer 1

‘ What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?…Did you think God exempted Weybridge?He is not an insurance agent.’
- CONT: WELLS CRITICAL OF VICTORIAN RELIGION
- VICTORIAN RELIGION
- curate is self centred only thinking about his town and nothing else
- narrator is critical of religions
- comparison of god an almighty being to a mere insurance agent presents the ridiculesness of the curates ideas

Narrator talking to the curate

Question 2

slain by the midgest

Book 2 Chapter 3

Answer 2

‘slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria…slain, after all man’s devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon the earth
- HUMAN + MARTIAN SMALLNESS, SMALL MOTIF
- CONT: DARWINISM REJECTION
- ‘man’s devices had failed’ - human arrogance is gone
- ‘God’ - reference to higher in contrast of beliefs of the times
- ‘slain’ - heroic, old, verb - repeated
empasihes the unlikeliness of the bacteria slaying
- ‘bacteria’ - smallest thing defeats the largest reversal of the whole book

Narrator looking at slain martians in London

Question 3

sapper arrogance

Book 1 Chapter 9

Answer 3

‘Talk about fishers of men - Octopsuses ,said he,fighters of fish it is this time!/It ain’t no murder killing beasts like that ‘
- HUMAN ARROGANCE
- ‘beasts’ - refers to them as animals, trying to signify them as below humans and less reasonable
- comparing themselves to jesus’ dsicplies - ‘fighters of fish’ - they want to kill martians

sappers talking