Even if humanity survives the War of the Worlds, the ending of HG Wells' novel is really not reassuring at all. Although there seem to be positive effects, such as advances in science, the Martian invasion obviously also has its harmful effects: it seems to cause some sort of mental illness in the narrator, and probably in many other humans as well. . Furthermore, the narrator mentions the probability of another invasion, if not of Mars, then of other planets. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Should Not Be Banned"?Get the original essay One reason the novel's ending is not reassuring is that the invasion seems to leave many humans with some sort of mental illness, probably post-traumatic stress disorder. The narrator tells us in the epilogue that from time to time, when he writes in his office, he "sees the healing valley below writhing with flames and feels the house behind and around [him] empty and desolate." . Since it's in the epilogue, we know the Martians are dead, so these must be hallucinations. The fact that he imagines the house "empty and desolate" shows that the Martians have left behind a kind of sadness that remains so strongly held that the narrator has ingrained it in his subconscious. We must not forget that there are also positive effects. The narrator states that "the gifts she brought to human science are enormous", which is of course very reassuring, especially in the eyes of HG Wells, who was a passionate biologist. But a greater reassuring effect would be the narrator's description of how he might deal with a future Martian invasion. He suggests that "the cylinder could be blown up with dynamite...or they could be massacred with rifles as soon as the screw opened." This is very reassuring because we know that humans will be more careful from now on, rather than making the stupid mistakes they made the first time. However, even in this sentence where the narrator tries to reassure the reader, there remains a hint of a disturbing effect: the word “massacred”. This gives the reader the feeling that humans have become more cruel as a result of the Martian invasion and that it will stay that way. Wells makes this clear when he says, “for many years there will certainly be no relaxation.” Here, Wells uses anastrophe to emphasize the fact that humans will remain cruel "for many years." This phrase comes at the beginning of the sentence to give it emphasis. However, some would argue that this is a positive effect of the invasion, because the Martians deserve our cruelty and we are safer as a result. To add to this feeling of anxiety, the narrator talks about the Martians landing on the planet Venus. ' This tells the reader that while it's over for humans, it's not over for Venus and, in fact, it's not over for any other planet in the universe. We know that Wells wants the reader to infer this because in the first chapter he compares us to the "infusoria under the microscope" and to the Martians as the man observing us. But there are things much bigger than men, and there are planets much bigger than Mars: it is clear that in this analogy there is still room for other planets in the universe, indistinguishably far from Earth, are involved in various other wars. If Wells had just wanted a novel about a war between Earth and Mars, he probably would have titled it "The Woking War", but we know it's about much more than that because the novel is called " War of the Worlds", which indicates that there is clearly more than one.