Chapter 7: How I Reached Home Wells' description of psychic numbing as a result of trauma seems very modern. Why is it important that the narrator not be an omnicompetent swaggering hero in the Arnold Schwarzenegger mold? What seems to be the narrator's attitudes toward working class people? Gravity acts "like a cope of lead" on the Martians; this phrase recalls the punishment of hypocrites in Canto 23 of Dante's Inferno, (read the excellent Mandelbaum translation online) in which the damned are forced to wear weighty leaden capes. What does this following phase imply about the state of the world after the Martian invasion: "in those days even philosophical writers had many little luxuries"? How does Wells once again compare the Martian invasion to British colonialism?
Chapter 8: Friday Night "Canard" usually means "malicious lie," but here it means "hoax." Note that until the 1960s "love-making" meant pretty much the same thing as "courting;" it would be a mistaken to envision activity any more passionate than hand-holding and the murmuring of sweet nothings. "Trenching on Smith's monopoly" means that the enterprising newsboy is encroaching on the business of the newsstand officially established at the train station. Maxim guns, invented in the 1880s, were the first truly automatic machine guns.
Chapter 9: The Fighting Begins Wells jokingly calls the milkman's cart his "chariot," comparing it to Phoebus Apollo's chariot, because both appear at dawn. What is the significance of the pun "fishers of men--fighters of fish"? (Hint: see Matthew 4:19.) What act of realistic cowardice does the narrator commit in the last part of the chapter? What is the eventual fate of the landlord in a later chapter?
Chapter 10: In the Storm In what way does the shape of the cylinders reflect the form of their creators?
Chapter 11: At the Window What technique does Wells use to emphasize the thoroughness of the destruction? The phrase "pillars of fire" at the end of the chapter is Biblical, ironically echoing the pillar of fire which led the Hebrews out of Egypt in Exodus 15:21-22.
Chapter 12: What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton What is unusual about the sound of the attack the narrator is caught in? When Wells calls the beam-weapon a "camera" he is thinking of the large, box-like contraptions common his day, always mounted atop tripods to ensure their stability during the long exposure times they required.
Chapter 13: How I Fell in with the Curate A curate is a sort of assistant clergyman. Wells had a low opinion of conventional religion. The disastrous Lisbon earthquake of November 1, 1755 was famous partly because the Catholic church claimed it was caused by the wickedness of the inhabitants. More skeptical minds, like Voltaire, argued that Lisbon was the most orthodoxly pious of cities, and its destruction on a Sunday morning argued rather for a lack of divine justice. Just as had his Enlightenment predecessors, Wells refuses to read religious meaning into a natural disaster. What does the clergyman's reference to Sodom and Gomorrah mean? (Hint: see Genesis 18:20-28.) See Revelation 14:11 for the source of this quotation: "The smoke of her burning goeth up for ever and ever!" How is the clergyman interpreting the attack of the Martians? See also Revelation 6:16-17. Why does he call the Martians "God's ministers?"
Chapter 14: In London At this point, the narrative switches to events in London, told second-hand through the experiences of the narrator's brother. Can you think of reasons that Wells chose not to continue with the same first-person narrative technique? A "crammer" is a tutor specializing in preparing students for exams. What prevents many Londoners from immediately reacting to the Martian invasion?
Chapter 15: What Had Happened in Surrey Analyze the paragraph beginning "No doubt the thought that was uppermost." How does it view humanity? What is foreshadowed by the sentence in parentheses? A "kopje" is a small hillock or mound. The gas used by the Martians was seen as more prophetic than the fantastic heat-rays, for poison gas was used widely in World War I. Why would a gas like this be a particularly frightening weapon?
Chapter 16: The Exodus from London The first cylinder had landed Thursday, the fighting began Friday, and the panic in London described in Chapter 14 had begun on Saturday morning. We are now at the dawn of Monday. What evidence is there that panic is overriding civilized behavior in this flight from the Martians? How does the brother rescue a lady, and what is the consequence to himself? In what ways does this scene contradict our usual expectations of a hero saving a lady in distress? Note how the death of the "eagle-faced" man is made emblematic of insane greed. Humanity is not at its best in these scenes. When the brother is giving advice to Miss Elphinstone toward the end of the chapter about escaping their pursuer, how does he avoid the stereotyped "kill or b
บทที่ 7: วิธีถึงบ้าน การอธิบายของหลุมของกายสิทธิ์ทำให้มึนงงจากการบาดเจ็บที่ดูทันสมัยมาก ทำไมจึงสำคัญว่า เล่าไม่เป็นฮีโร่ฬอ omnicompetent ในแม่พิมพ์อาร์โนลด์ชวาร์เซเน็กเกอร์ สิ่งที่ดูเหมือนจะเป็นคนทำงานระดับเจตคติของผู้บรรยาย แรงโน้มถ่วงกระทำ "เช่นรับมือรอ" บน Martians วลีนี้เรียกคืนโทษของมุนาฟิกใน Canto 23 ของ Dante ของ Inferno, (อ่านแปล Mandelbaum ที่ยอดเยี่ยม) ซึ่งไอ้ถูกบังคับให้สวมหมวก leaden weighty สิ่งนี้ขั้นตอนต่อไปนี้ imply เกี่ยวกับสถานะของโลกหลังจากการรุกรานดาวอังคาร: "ในวันนั้น ผู้เขียนปรัชญาแม้มีฟุ่มเฟือยน้อยมาก" วิธีไม่หลุมอีกครั้งเปรียบเทียบการรุกรานดาวอังคารการอาณานิคมอังกฤษบทที่ 8: คืน "Canard" มักจะหมายถึง "อันตรายอยู่" แต่นี่หมายความว่า "หลอกลวง" หมายเหตุ:จนกระทั่งในปี 1960 "รักทำ" หมายถึง สวยมากสิ่งเดียวกัน "ติดพัน จะเข้าใจผิดว่าการเห็นกิจกรรมอื่น ๆ หลงใหลมากกว่ามือถือและ murmuring ของหวาน nothings "ขุดบนผูกขาดของ Smith" หมายความ ว่า newsboy ความเป็นมปัต่อสู้ธุรกิจของแผงหนังสือตั้งที่สถานีรถไฟ แม็กปืน คิดค้นในยุค 1880 ถูกปืนอัตโนมัติอย่างแรกChapter 9: The Fighting Begins Wells jokingly calls the milkman's cart his "chariot," comparing it to Phoebus Apollo's chariot, because both appear at dawn. What is the significance of the pun "fishers of men--fighters of fish"? (Hint: see Matthew 4:19.) What act of realistic cowardice does the narrator commit in the last part of the chapter? What is the eventual fate of the landlord in a later chapter?Chapter 10: In the Storm In what way does the shape of the cylinders reflect the form of their creators?Chapter 11: At the Window What technique does Wells use to emphasize the thoroughness of the destruction? The phrase "pillars of fire" at the end of the chapter is Biblical, ironically echoing the pillar of fire which led the Hebrews out of Egypt in Exodus 15:21-22. Chapter 12: What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton What is unusual about the sound of the attack the narrator is caught in? When Wells calls the beam-weapon a "camera" he is thinking of the large, box-like contraptions common his day, always mounted atop tripods to ensure their stability during the long exposure times they required.Chapter 13: How I Fell in with the Curate A curate is a sort of assistant clergyman. Wells had a low opinion of conventional religion. The disastrous Lisbon earthquake of November 1, 1755 was famous partly because the Catholic church claimed it was caused by the wickedness of the inhabitants. More skeptical minds, like Voltaire, argued that Lisbon was the most orthodoxly pious of cities, and its destruction on a Sunday morning argued rather for a lack of divine justice. Just as had his Enlightenment predecessors, Wells refuses to read religious meaning into a natural disaster. What does the clergyman's reference to Sodom and Gomorrah mean? (Hint: see Genesis 18:20-28.) See Revelation 14:11 for the source of this quotation: "The smoke of her burning goeth up for ever and ever!" How is the clergyman interpreting the attack of the Martians? See also Revelation 6:16-17. Why does he call the Martians "God's ministers?"Chapter 14: In London At this point, the narrative switches to events in London, told second-hand through the experiences of the narrator's brother. Can you think of reasons that Wells chose not to continue with the same first-person narrative technique? A "crammer" is a tutor specializing in preparing students for exams. What prevents many Londoners from immediately reacting to the Martian invasion?Chapter 15: What Had Happened in Surrey Analyze the paragraph beginning "No doubt the thought that was uppermost." How does it view humanity? What is foreshadowed by the sentence in parentheses? A "kopje" is a small hillock or mound. The gas used by the Martians was seen as more prophetic than the fantastic heat-rays, for poison gas was used widely in World War I. Why would a gas like this be a particularly frightening weapon?Chapter 16: The Exodus from London The first cylinder had landed Thursday, the fighting began Friday, and the panic in London described in Chapter 14 had begun on Saturday morning. We are now at the dawn of Monday. What evidence is there that panic is overriding civilized behavior in this flight from the Martians? How does the brother rescue a lady, and what is the consequence to himself? In what ways does this scene contradict our usual expectations of a hero saving a lady in distress? Note how the death of the "eagle-faced" man is made emblematic of insane greed. Humanity is not at its best in these scenes. When the brother is giving advice to Miss Elphinstone toward the end of the chapter about escaping their pursuer, how does he avoid the stereotyped "kill or b
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