Key quotations — The War of the Worlds — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
Key quotations
Key quotations
What you need to know
The essential quotations from The War of the Worlds, grouped by character and by theme, each with what it means and how to analyse it.
A table of 30 to 40 key quotations by character and theme, each with its speaker, place and a one-line note, for testing yourself.
Including 'intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic', 'With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe', 'this invisible, inevitable sword of heat', 'the last civilised dinner', 'What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?', 'the beginning of the rout of civilisation', 'We’re eatable ants', 'slain, after all man’s devices had failed, by the humblest things' and 'among the dead'.
