What evidence from the novel The War of the Worlds supports the theme that human vanity can lead to trouble?
Question:
What evidence from the novel The War of the Worlds supports the theme that human vanity can lead to trouble?
Choices:
- It required a certain amount of scientific education to perceive that the grey scale of the Thing was no common oxide, that the yellowish-white metal that gleamed in the crack between the lid and the cylinder had an unfamiliar hue.
- But, looking, I presently saw something stirring within the shadow greyish billowy movements, one above another, and then two luminous disks - like eyes.
- No writer up to the very end of the nineteenth century expressed any idea that intelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all, beyond its earthly level.
- The Martians seem to have calculated their descent with amazing subtlety- their mathematical learning is evidently far in excess of
Answer:
No writer up to the very end of the nineteenth century expressed any idea that intelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all, beyond its earthly level.