EN119 Lecture 10: Week 10 Notes
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What is science ction: takes current science and extrapolates it into a utopian or dystopian future, science ction is often not so much about science- it is about us. Ction does best is to tell us something about ourselves as we are now, and as we imagine we might be in the future, and the war of the worlds certainly does this. Throughout the novel, wells draws our attention not only to the strangeness of the. Martians, but also to what they tell us about human nature. British imperialism is seen by many critics as an important aspect of the narrative, as at the time the war of the worlds was published, britain was widely viewed as the most powerful nation on earth. The british sense of con dence, however, was being undermined by the german uni cation of 1871 which established germany as an extremely militarily powerful nation.
