The War of The Worlds: Characters (OCR GCSE English Literature): Flashcards
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Narrator's quote showing detachment
Narrator's quote showing detachment
I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment
What Narrator's detachment represents
What Narrator's detachment represents
Emotional distance as survival coping mechanism
Narrator's quote challenging religion
Narrator's quote challenging religion
What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?
Theme in Narrator's religion quote
Theme in Narrator's religion quote
Rationality versus faith
Artilleryman's quote about survival
Artilleryman's quote about survival
We must live like rats
What 'live like rats' implies
What 'live like rats' implies
Adapt by living underground, primitive existence
Artilleryman's view on society
Artilleryman's view on society
People have grown soft and weak
Theme in Artilleryman's society critique
Theme in Artilleryman's society critique
Survival of the fittest
Curate's quote about the invasion
Curate's quote about the invasion
Why are these things permitted? What sins have we done?
What Curate's 'sins' quote reveals
What Curate's 'sins' quote reveals
Unable to comprehend invasion in religious framework
Curate's apocalyptic quote
Curate's apocalyptic quote
The end! The great and terrible day of the Lord!
Brother's threepence quote & theme
Brother's threepence quote & theme
Had to pay threepence for paper - exploitation of fear
Four key characters in War of the Worlds
Four key characters in War of the Worlds
Narrator, Artilleryman, Curate, Narrator's Brother