Man’s Flaw in War of the Worlds and Present Day Earth Essay

An interesting quote taken from Kepler starts out the book War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be inhabited? Are we or they the Lords of the World? And how argon all things made for homophile? (Kepler, the Anatomy of Melancholy). This quote serves as a foreshadowing to what Wells considers to be mans fundamental deface, a flaw that still exists today on modern man, more than a century after War of the Worldss first publication and centuries more after Keplers time.According to Wellss introduction, mans first fundamental flaw is complacency With unconditioned complacency men went to and fro over this glove about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter (Chapter 1, p. 3). In War of the Worlds, man thought that they are the only inhabitants of the universe and remain complacent over the dangers that might be coming from places other than what they can comprehend. Little did they know that they are being watch ed by creatures from space on the button like how a scientist examines a microscopic organism under a microscope.Unfortunately today, man still suffers from this complacency. We micturate abused nature for the longest time thinking that its resources and its tolerance to our actions are boundless. Now, we are facing the ill effects of our wrong doings, our resources are dwindling, and our climate is chop-chop changing. Vanity is the next flaw that Wells talk about in his introduction of the book. Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer, up to the very end of the nineteenth century expressed any idea that life might have developed there far (Chapter 1, p.4). manhood became too preoccupied with his achievements that he hadnt put it into thought that Mars is older than Earth and therefore could be more advanced than humans if thusly there is life on the red planet. Vanity is one of the oldest flaws of man, the classics shows this flaw perfectly through the myth of Narcissus, a mythological character whose name manner self-admirer. Vanity is still among mans flaw today, some people are so vain that they are willing to spend ridiculous amounts of funds on cosmetics.They could have just used the money on other necessary things or better yet, to help the needy. Last is mans flaw for being judgmental. And before we judge them too harshly we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought (Chapter 1, p. 6). Wells questions that the Martianss innovation to take over the earth isnt any different than what the humans has done over animals and even our own species. The same could still be apply today.Man by virtue, does not have the right to complain if indeed Martians invade the earth and do all those things that we do to our animals. In the book, Martians are just doing what they can do to survive, but man (in the real world) harms creatures even if it is not necessary for survival. All these flaws can be su mmed up to pride. In ancient Greek literature pride or hubris as they call it, is the fundamental flaw of man that causes his demise. Kepler and Wells advocate the same thing in their works