Martian's Technology example essay topic

The narrative of The War of the World's is quite dramatic. There is always plenty of action and the surroundings are always being described. When reading the book one would find that it was written in 1898, over one hundred years ago. The technology from that day was very different in comparison to what we have today. Yet H.G. Wells manages to generate ideas of things, which have never been seen in today's advancing technological world. Orson Welles had the novel written into play form.

He acted it out on the radio and it scared many people. His play was not exactly like the novel because he made it seem real. Many people were panicked because he made it seem so real. In H.G. Wells' work the story starts off with Ogilvy (a survivor) telling us that human affairs had been watched keenly and closely by intelligence's greater than man's does. Ogilvy was a key character in which he had spotted the Martian coming into Woking, which was the setting from which the aliens landed. However, soon they had progressed from here and moved to many different places across the United Kingdom including the nation capital, London.

This story does not tell us much about the terrestrial side of it all though. That seems to be left out of the story. One might think that because it was written in 1898 when communications were really very basic. He didn't develop the ideas but Brucke page 2 concentrated his efforts on the Martian's technology.

The Martian's technology was well ahead of the time. The people were not scared at first but were later. While the book just caused interest the broadcast caused live spread panic. Though the program began with the announcement that it was a story based on novel and this announcement was reiterated several times during the program that this was just a story. Many listeners didn't tune in long enough to hear them. Not hear the introduction of the play and listening to the authoritative and real sounding commentary and interviews, many believed it to be real.

All across the United States, listeners reacted. Many people became hysterical as they thought the end was near. Hours after the program ended, the listeners realized that the Martian invasion was not real. The public was outraged that Orson Welles had tried to fool them. Some even wondered if he had caused the panic on purpose. The power of the radio had fooled the listeners.

The aliens were portrayed to be very destructive and violent, which was true to their nature as they traveled around in towering tripods and had heat-ray guns destroying everything in their path. They obviously came from a much more sophisticated planet then our own; they had also come equipped with more weapons than we could ever match. However if they had wanted to be successful then they would have spent a little more time observing our planet and bringing back samples, etc. One would say this because it was our bacteria Brucke page 3 that eventually killed the invaders off. We didn't manage to control then using weapons. Their black smoke and heat-ray guns killed off the army and forced people to evacuate the country.

It was our own bacteria, present with us all the time that eventually destroyed them. The realism of the broadcast caused the people who were tuned into the station at various times to panic. The advancing technology in 1938 caused the broadcast to be more believable. So many people believed the broadcast. It states in the blurb that the Martians invaded Earth with some 'some fantastic and amazing weapons' including cranes that walk on stilts and a ray gun that kills from a distance. He clearly had a well-developed imagination.

Because Orson Welles was a radio broadcaster, he had to be more creative in telling the story. There he had to use voices, music, and sounds instead of written words to create the realism of the story. He used these things in the format of a news bulletin to bring about the desired affect. Although they were separated by forty years, both did an excellent job portraying an alien race possessing advanced technology. They succeed in making their story seem real.