Technology has changed the way human society lives and how we perceive our place in the universe. Humans like to view themselves as masters of nature and at times perceive ourselves to be gods. However, in Well’s War of the Worlds humanity is rivaled by beings whose technology supersedes our own that presents a dark future for the human race physically and metaphorically. In the narrative, Martian technology not only brings the near extinction of humans but also the defeat of the alien invaders through the contraction of disease because of their organic neglect in favor of machines; technology is not only a series of inventions but rather an evolutionary force that can produce curiosity, fear, and extinction. At the beginning of the novel…show more content… The narrative at first portrays these creatures to be vulnerable to their surroundings when they emerge from the cylinder, “…the tumultuous breathing of the lungs in a strange atmosphere, the evident heaviness and painfulness of movement due to the greater gravitational energy of the earth above all, the extraordinary intensity of the immense eyes…”(pg.17-18). At this point we can infer that the physical organic Martian pose no immediate threat until they become encased in their machines of war. The advancement of their technology enables them to favor the machine over their organic bodies and it turn do not make the necessary measures to protect themselves. The neglect that the Martians had for themselves left their bodies unprepared for the environment that they sought to conquer, “…the Martians-dead!-slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; …slain, after all man’s devices had failed, by the humblest things that god, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth”(pg. 152-153). The irony presented to us is that the Martians were not defeated by human technology, but rather their own technological disregard for their material bodies as
