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“In what ways can War of the worlds be considered allegorical?”

The novel ‘War of the Worlds’ has always been seen as a way to look at modern day society through allegorical themes throughout each adaptation. The novel was wrote in 1898, during this time fear of the end of the world was lurking in the minds of the public nearing the change from 1800’s to the 1900’s. Also the fact of fear of change in England was also around as the British Empire controlled 2/3rds of the world, because of this Britain aloud immigrants from any controlled country to flow in. From this the British public felt that change would be coming to their everyday society and that everything including the national dish of fish and chips would change. ‘War of the Worlds’ highlighted this by combining both the paranoia of ‘others’ (immigrants) and annihilation together and made the concept of Martians coming to destroy earth.

This isn’t the only occurrence of ‘War of the Worlds’ has been used to highlight current social pandemics, as the return of ‘War of the Worlds’ was then read by Orson Wells to national radio in 1938. People who tuned in after the introduction would miss that this was only a reading of the novel and these people would think that this was an actual war starting in different country's. finish rest of this laaaaaaaaa

War of the worlds film 1953

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