Ostensibly an alien invasion movie, Independence Day is a movie that best exemplifies the gender politics of the 1990s, where feminism scared men into fearing for their masculinity. In the 1990s, Hilary Clinton was vilified, books like The Rules:...

When Darwin first published his novel, The Origin of Species, in 1859, it was met with great controversy and backlash, sparking in the process a heated debate between scientists, religious scholars, and the general public over its implications and...

The representation of science is a trope often used in Gothic Literature. In this essay, I will compare how two Gothic texts, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and “The Stolen Bacillus” by H. G. Wells, represent...

The world of H.G. Wells’ Ann Veronica includes distinct colors in every scene. A particular color that comes up often is the color white. The many associations made with white seem to be on two opposite poles. At first, it is used to describe fear...

The realm of cinema has consistently been a mirror of societal norms, biases, and reforms. Few films are as evocative of this reflective capacity as Leigh Whannell's 2020 adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic tale, The Invisible Man. The film serves...

Upon its publication in 1897, The Invisible Man came to supply the English market with another Faustian figure, by no means the first created by H.G. Wells, nor the earliest in the history of Victorian literature. Portrayed as a dangerous...

H. G. Well’s ‘Tono-Bungay’ is a novel which explores the moral and social disintegration of the individual and society due to societal and economic shifts like the introduction of capitalism. Wells explores the disintegration of social classes,...