The Time Machine represents the different classes of society and how each one is changing and benefitting. The Eloi represent the upper-class who are very petty and lazy as they sit around all day and do nothing for themselves. The Morlocks represent the lower and working-class as they live underground and have to work to survive. While the Eloi's society seems perfect at first, they are lazy and weak with no stress for survival showing it is an imperfect society. With no stress for survival, the Eloi have adapted to become weaker and lazier. Natural selection does not occur anymore and that allows the less fit to survive Eloi to live. The time traveler does not understand as seen from the quote, "What, unless biological science is a mass …show more content…
The upper-class evolved into the lazy and weak Eloi while the lower-class evolved into the hard working Morlocks see in the quote, "The Upper-world people might once have been the favoured aristocracy, and the Morlocks their mechanical servants: but that had long since passed away. The two species that had resulted from the evolution of man were sliding down towards, or had already arrived at, an altogether new relationship (Wells)." The expectation would be that the upper-class would evolve into a greater species and the lower-class would die out, but it is the exact opposite. The Morlocks are living perfectly fine and working everyday to survive while the Eloi are lazy and do not do anything which could be dangerous to the species’ survival in the future. In The Time Machine, the two species evolved very differently, "The Eloi and the Morlocks represent how human beings have genetically changed in the future as a result of their ability to adapt, or not, to their environments. The Morlocks, representing a mutation of the working class of Wells's day, are ape-like, with large eyes and white skin, features that have evolved because they live underground. They fear the light and love the darkness. Conversely, the Eloi are effete, fragile, and fearful of the dark, a result of thousands of years of not having to work to survive (Time)." The Eloi are a result of never having
The world is advancing so rapidly today, it seems that it will never stop growing in knowledge and complexity. In the novel “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells, The Time Traveler, as Wells calls him, travels hundreds of thousands of years into the future through time. He arrives at a world that, at first glimpse, is peaceful and clear of any worries. As The Time Traveler explores the world, he discovers that the human race has evolved into 2 distinct forms. Although the world appeared to be the Garden of Eden, it was, in reality, the Garden of Evil. Wells uses three aspects of the futuristic world to illustrate this: the setting, the Eloi, and the Murlocks.
This gives the readers a clue that what is to happen in the upcoming text is a
Social Classes Throughout History The gap between different classes has always been very prominent in
By what has been used to describe them, it is clear to say that the Elois is the privileged ones while the Morlocks are more of the hard labour ones. At other words, Elois was seen as the higher class while Morlocks were part of the lower class. Aside from the social classes, some things that made Elois differ from the Morlocks were what they ate, their intelligence level, and appearance. Traits of such are what structured the society they live in. Each hold some good and bad traits that the traveler has deciphered while spending and observing them very carefully. From what the traveler has come across, the Morlocks are brighter than the Elois however, their appearance does give them a more disgusting and inhuman look. In contrast to the Elois who were more appealing to look at but barely did any physical or mental work. Hence showing the comparison of these two creatures and how combining them has helped establish the society they
... that they affect one another. A person who lives by a lower income will not have that mines and chances of become wealthy. A person in the other spectrum, which is born into a higher class, will most likely stay wealth. This leads to an endless cycle of generations staying within the working class realm. The likely hood of a person moving up a class is rare but it does exist. People need to be pushed and have a drive to keep going and to keep trying. That is why we are told we have an equal chance in life so we can all strive for better even though in reality we do not all have an equal chance. But nonetheless people should try to become successful even if they never make it in life because a life without purpose, goals, or ambitions is a meaningless life. As humans we need a reason to live, another day for people to take advantage and make the best of it.
With this being exemplified by the African Kingdoms and the Industrial Revolution, their social classes are similar. As in history social classes are divided into rich and poor. As the Industrial Revolution was divided into a high class, middle class, and lower class. This also happened to the African Kingdoms such as Lozi was divided into royal, commoners, and slaves. Kingdom Zulu, social classes were divided into chiefs and slaves. As shown the similarities to one another, that led to their
Wells. In this novel the human race is split into the working class and the aristocrat’s in the far future. Elio of the upper class, are small and very unintelligent. Morlocks, of the underground act as the working class. Over time, however, the Elio had become a food source for the Morlocks. What makes The Time Machine different from Metropolis is that in The Time Machine there is no one to act as the mediator between the two classes. Because of this, much further in time, the human race is eliminated and all that stands are giant crabs, in a waste land that is earth on its death
To start, when the Time Traveler first meets the two groups he prefers for the Eloi, “[The] graceful children of the Upper-world were not the sole descendants of our generation, but that this bleached, obscene, nocturnal Thing, which had flashed before me, was also heir to all the ages” (Wells 30). It does not take long for the Time Traveler to judge the creatures of the future based upon shallow traits such as their appearances. The Time Traveler depicts the Eloi as graceful children because he wants to make them appear as innocent like a child. Then he dehumanizes the Morlocks by defining them based on their exterior qualities, saying they are bleached and obscene. In continuation, Firchow explains the divide between the groups as “into the creatures of light (the Eloi) and the creatures of darkness (the Morlocks)” showing that the divide is not “merely social but it is also psychological.” (Firchow). Furthering the idea that this is a divide between good and evil, Firchow explains that the Time Traveler sees the Eloi as light and the Morlocks as darkness. The split between the Eloi and the Morlocks shows Wells opinion of the human condition that we are imperfect beings incapable of reaching a perfect balance. Furthermore, Tuerk presents the contrast between the groups plainly, stating that,
The looks of the Morlocks left an hatred toward the Morlocks due to their appearances and behaviours (east the Eloi). The looks of both the Creature and Morlocks, left both Victor and the time travel to view them in a negative way.
The Morlocks working and living conditions is an allusion to the real living conditions in London at the time of H.G Wells writing The Time Machine. The Time Traveler describes how in his own time, “There is a tendency to utilize underground space for the less ornamental purposes of civilization; there is the Metropolitan Railway in London, for instance, there are new electric railways, there are subways, there are underground workrooms” all of which require that people be underground away from fresh air for many hours at a time (Wells 41). People can develop serious health problems if they are not allowed to go outside. Some of these negative health effects are a sensitivity to bright light, pale skin and in some extreme cases insanity. Wells
In many ways, judging and comparing Vigil’s Aeneid and Ovid’s Metamorphoses is inevitable because each of the writers lived at roughly the same time in history, both sought to create a historical work that would endure long past their mortal existences, and while each man was ultimately successful in their endeavors, they achieved their desired goals in vastly different ways. That being said, the epic poem by Ovid is superior because unlike Virgil, whose epic poem utilized a character centered narrative steeped in historical inferences and a theme that celebrated the moral virtues of Greek and Roman society, Ovid defied tradition by creating an intricate narrative that looked
The brutal system of capitalism and widening gap between classes experienced by Wells during the late Victorian Britain leads him to join the Fabian Society and adopt socialist and liberal views. His personal schooling and scientific education allow him to think outside of the confines of society and help usher in social reform. The Time Machine embodies the problems of not only society during Wells’ time but modern society as well.
Wells was able to optimize his usage of themes that are evident all throughout the novel. One of the dominant themes present in the novel was the severe discrimination of social classes. Wells grew up during the time where the upper class were harsh to the lower class, and Wells captured this in his novel. In the story, the Eloi made the Morlocks into their servants, wherein they became extremely dependent on them for their survival. Morlocks, in the other hand, are oppressed and they began to rebel against the Eloi (http://www.hyperink.com/Major-Themes-And-Symbols-In-The-Time-Machine-b930a15).
In The War of the Worlds the authors tone can be seen a detached. This is because along the course of the story the focus jumps from one thing to another. While the narrator does make some good point they are not exactly organized. “At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. “This detachment shows the little comprehension of the events. This goes to demonstrate that the story is fate driven because nothing they do or think seems to impact the unfolding and outcome of the story. Then for The Time Machine the tone the author took was a combination of science and irrationality. This demonstrates that the characters in the book were more driven by free will than fate. Also something that builds upon free will id the fact that most of the themes like, society, change, and technology are only possible through free
As a Christian, I don't personally believe in evolution in general; I don't think humans evolved from a lower life form and I don't think we will be here for another 800,000 years to evolve into anything else. But the logical scientist in me is nonetheless intrigued at the possibilities presented in The Time Machine. So what would happen to the human race a few hundred millennia from now? Would it divide into two distinct races that live separately from one another as Wells describes? I personally don't think this would happen. The human race seems to have a stubborn quality about it -- anytime there is a challenge or obstacle to face, we tend to try to overcome it in one way or another. I remember reading somewhere recently (I can't remember where) that humans have a natural tendency to resist captivity or oppression. This is why slavery is never permenent, and the history of man is littered with uprisings and revolts. This line of thinking begs the question: if indeed the Morlocks were forced underground at one point or another, why did they stay there? Even if they accepted their new environment without question, they were going to run out of food eventually -- no sun means no plants or vegetables, correct? This is where the Time Traveler presumes that the Morlocks began to feed on the Eloi out of necessity. But wouldn't the Morlocks just return to the surface at this point? Why would they stay underground if their only food was on the surface? It doesn't seem to make sense. Nevertheless, the year 802,701 as envisioned by Wells is fascinating. I have always loved good stories, especially imaginative ones, and I must admit that The Time Machine has become one of my favorite works of literature.