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H G Wells' novel ‘The War of the Worlds' successfully creates a thrilling climate of terror which often reflects Victorian insecurities by using a number of different techniques. Victorian times were not the strongest, living conditions were appalling for the poor in the Victorian era, there were a lot of sweatshops around, and the poor were just treated like vermin. This was highlighted in many novels at the time, and Wells was just one of those authors, with Dickens and Brontë at their most popular.

With a range of conflicts, including those of the rich and the poor; the country folk and the townsfolk; and even men and women, there were great divisions in society at the time. Wells highlighted these divisions in his text, by comparing the humans to ‘the Tasmanians, (who) in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination' and the aliens to the exterminators, as to who ‘the creatures who inhabit this earth, must e to them at......

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