The thing that makes "such imaginations interesting" is that they become "human"-that they allow us to look "at human feelings and human ways from the new angle that has been acquired" (p. In the Preface to the 1933 collection of his romances, Wells says that the "invention" of fantastic stories is nothing in itself: ".the living interest lies in their non-fantastic elements," in their "human sympathy" ( The Scientific Romances of H.G. There is both external and internal evidence that a psychological development is the intended center and controlling strategy of FMM as well as Wells's other early romances. But Bedford successfully tells his story, that is, communicates fact and fantasy, science and romantic vision. Finally, we must remember that in this story communication is a major theme at the most obvious level Cavor tries to communicate with the Selenites and then with Earth (both unsuccessfully). This interpretation of the ending is critical in my position contra Pagetti, as will be pointed out in a moment. The subtlety of Wells's structuring is even more apparent when we consider the implications of his ending, where we see that it is Bedford, not Cavor, who has a vision of reality. Having been through these experiences, the authorial Bedford is the final product, the synthesis of bourgeois Everyman and romantic adventurer. 129), I see Bedford as actually two consciousnesses one is the narrator Bedford and the other is the "bourgeois Everyman." The bourgeois Bedford-the primary hero-goes through his adventures under the eye of the narrator Bedford. 126-27) and concomitantly by Bedford as a mediocre bourgeois consciousness (p. Whereas Pagetti's formalist tendencies stress the use made of various fictional strategies first by Wells the author (pp. This point is that the structure is largely integrated with Bedford's character.
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Wells and the Fictional Strategy of his 'Scientific Romances"' (SFS, 7 :124-34), has missed an essential point in the structuring of Wells's story. Wells's The First Men in the Moon (FMM) as "the epitome of a formal structure which admits different solutions," Carlo Pagetti in his article, "The First Men in the Moon: H.G. Bedford Vindicated: A Response to Carlo Pagetti on The First Men in the MoonÄespite his praise of H.G.