THE CHARACTERS
THE NARRATOR- He represents Morals and order in the face of death and destruction.
Throughout the story he does what he can to maintain his own sense of morality while the rest of the world is being torn apart by this invading force.
He even is reluctant to kill the clergyman while everyone else in panic is killing each other just to survive.
He tends to be scientific in the sense that he does what he needs to to survive.
Martians
They represent Imperialism
Their actions demonstrate they want to conquer and not compromise
They show no mercy what so ever to humans and seem to want to exterminate them.
They capture humans for food
Which shows the inhumanity of the imperialist.
ArtillaryMen
They of course are the military
They also show through the failure of the military to stop the martians that war is about fighting but also about mistakes commonly seen by military leaders which lead to loss of life and the only real safety is in being ready and avoid danger
Wells also depicts them as not taking war seriously enough when their Generals play cards to divide up London This is due to his views of World Peace.
Curate
The Curate of course represents Religion
Wells uses a negative idea of religion because Wells was both a Socialist and an Atheist. Socialists typically followed what Karl Marx saw in Religion which is that it wasn’t helping society. Wells shows this when the Curate loses him mind.
Think of a Curate as being an Assistant to a priest.