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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis thesis is an analysis of satirical ideas towards
the social condition of the contemporary society in the near ~
commencing year of second millennium in Wells's The War of
the Worlds. Through the narrative, obviously Wells wants to
point out how human-beings' morality has been degraded to a
serious extent. The advanced accomplishment in science and
technology has been abused by the superior beings to destroy
other people and to seek for their own benefit. As a result,
instead of contributing virtue to mankind, science and
technology have resulted in the vice which is not only being
used to demolish one another but also unconsciously leading
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to self destruction. j
In showing Wells's satirical ideas, the writer covers
the discussion on the main characters' behavior in relation
with the contemporary society under the suppression of tyrant
with superior technology. Both main characters, the Narrator
and the Brother of Narrator, have shown a somewhat immobile
virtue under such a repressive situation that makes other
people deviate in moral and ethic.
Through the study, the writer focuses his analysis to
reveal the use of satire through the main characters by Wells
to convey his social-foresight towards the contemporary
society. His vision of the modern society is concerning the abused advancement that make Wells and even the writer of
this thesis worried. By giving a terrible picture of
destruction of the world as visioned by Wells, people are
expected to be more ready and careful to deal with every
advancement which may bring harm effects instead of
advantages. Thus, Wells's foresight of the contemporary
society may become the warning for man not to forget the
role of moral and ethic as means to control advancement