War of the Worlds: Chaos

Question 1

gold bite

CHapter 16 - Fall of London

Answer 1

‘the man with the gold twisted his head round and bit the wrist’
- CAPITALISM, GREED, VIC SOCIETY
- CONT: Social Darwinism
- ‘bit’ - animalistic verb showing breakdown into every man for himslef (Darwin + Capitalism)
- ‘with the gold’ - key identifier is money showing focus of Victorian Society
- ‘twisted’ - contortion, showing unnaturalness and animalism of his actions

Narrators Brother

Question 2

tricolon of speed

Chapter 11 - Artilleryman

Answer 2

‘Just like the parade it had been a minute before - then stumble,bang,swish!
- SPEED, ONOMATOPOEIA
- CONT: VICTORIAN ARROGANCE
- ‘parade’ - symbol of Victorian power, disintegrated in ‘a minute’
- shows the speed of the attack
- tricolon of ‘stumble, bang,swish’ emphasises rapidity and loud noise

Artilleryman

Question 3

railways go down

Fall of London

Answer 3

‘Even the railway organisations were losing coherency, losing shape and efficiency, guttering, softening running at last in that swift liquefaction of the social body’
- VICTORIAN SOCIETY, CHAOS
- CONT: railways are the peak of Victorian Society
- ‘even the railway organisations’ - ‘even’ shows the incredulity of the narrator as the railways are the peak of Victorian technology and they are breaking
- repetition of verbs emphasises the speed at which this occurs ‘losing’, ‘guttering’, ‘softening’, running’

Narrators Brother

Question 4

policeman in london

Fall of London

Answer 4

‘ a mounted policeman came galloping through the confusion with his hands clasped over his head, screaming’
- VICTORIAN SOCIETY, CHAOS
- ‘policeman’ contrasted to ‘screaming’ - shows breakdown of law and order as authority figure shows emotion/terror
- ‘hands clasped over his head’ - childish, makes him seem vulnerable, representative of chaos

Narrator’s Brother

Question 5

dead london

London at the end

Answer 5

‘ London about me gazed at me spectrally. The windows in the white houses were like eye sockets in skulls’
- CONT: GOTHIC - precusor to dystopian, had some influence
- CONT: London is the center of the empire
- ‘sprectrally’ - connotations of emptiness - Gothic word
- ‘eye sockets of skulls - deathly imagery, personified using a similie

Narrator

Question 6

pseudo valuables

Book 1 Chapter 12

Answer 6

‘things that people had dropped - a clock, a slipper, a silver spoon’…‘cash box hastily smashed open’
- CAPITALISM, VICTORIAN SOCIETY
- ‘clock, slipper, a silver spoon’ - human stupidity, rather than bring essentials they bring psuedo valuables
- ‘hastily’ and ‘smashed’ - verbs of speed, as they were about to be killed by a heat ray, the humans only thought of escaping with the cash

Raiding a house for supplies with the Artilleryman

Question 7

1/11

A nature feature destroyed by martians

Answer 7

‘In one night the valley has become a valley of ashes’
- *valley *has connotations of greenery and life
- *ashes *has conntotations of burning and death and finality which juxtaposes valley
- the time phrase emphasises the speed at which the martians were able to accomplish this