Key quotations — The War of the Worlds — OCR GCSE English Literature J352
OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
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'.
OCR's question on this novel is one essay, from a choice of two, for 40 marks: an extract-based question on the printed extract and the novel elsewhere, or a discursive question on a view of the novel, using at least two moments. Response (AO1) and language, form and structure (AO2) carry the most weight and equal weight, context (AO3) counts when it is relevant to the question, and 4 marks are for vocabulary, sentence structures, spelling and punctuation (AO4). An extract-based answer that never leaves the extract, or a discursive answer built on one moment, cannot go above Level 3. Each worked paragraph and exam tip is labelled with the question it is for.
