¶ … HG Wells the First Men in the Moon, discussing the structural analysis between societies and class structures of the alien Selenites with a comparison to the class and society structure of modern man, finally looking at how this affects modern society.
Structural analysis of HG Well's The First Men in the Moon
Politics and literature have always found a way to mix, although many readers of late nineteenth and early twentieth century novels did not actually associate these topics and mixable many authors found ways of bring forth and entering their own political views into the manuscripts.
One of these classic writers was English writer Herbert George Wells, known colloquially as HG Wells, known for his famous books such as the Time Machine written in 1895, the Invisible Man written in 1897, War of the Worlds written in 1898, and The First Men in the Moon written in 1901.
Wells was not just a writer of science fiction novels, through out his life he wrote many other non-science fiction books, such as Kipps, written in 1905, here we see Wells' snipe and sneering at those that attempted to better themselves and go against their upbringing. However, Wells' was not just a writer he was also a journalist, sociologist and historian.
Born in Bromley, Kent, Wells' father was a shopkeeper and therefore belonged to the upper lower classes or perhaps the lower middle classes, however it would be safe to argue that as his father was also an avid cricketer which he played on a professional basis he belonged to the lower middle class.
During his formative years Wells' developed his love for the literary art, as his mother was a housekeeper at a nearby estate he spent many a day secretly studying the books in the great houses library.
When Wells' fathers business went bankrupt, Wells followed his brothers into the apprenticeship...
The Selenites live in a strange system not unlike that of insects, they are insect like and live in a rigid society that forms an organized hive system, for example in chapter twenty four of the book Wells notes through his young English man that the insects are unique " in having four limbs, and I have compared the general appearance of their heads and the jointing of their limbs to that of insects." (Wells PG). Further more he adds that "though of course they fall under no division of the
classification of earthly creatures, and he points out "the insect type of
anatomy had, fortunately for men, never exceeded a relatively very small size on
earth." The largest terrestrial insects, living or extinct, do not, as a matter of fact, measure 6 in. In length; "but here, against the lesser gravitation of the moon, a creature certainly as much an insect as vertebrate seems…
