Analysis Of The Time Machine By HG Wells

“The Time Machine”, written by HG Wells is a book published in the year of 1895 about a man who develops a working time machine and travels to the future and lives in what he believes is to be a utopia. The time traveller, whose name is never disclosed throughout the novel, travels forward to the year 802,701 AD and lives in the world and experiences all of the doings of the beings present. The world is inhabited by Eloi, who run the aboveground world, and Morlocks, who run the underground. The setting of the book is in the future and predominantly in the year of 802,701 AD however; closer to the end of the book the setting changes farther into the future and then back to the present. The setting affects the plot of the story in ways such as the living creatures wouldn’t be alive during the present and presumed to have evolved from humans.

“There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.” (Chapter 1, Page 3) This quote represents the theory that the time traveller believes in, he thinks that time is the fourth dimension. But time is important to this novel because it is also known as the setting, which sets the mood for this book. Setting is very well described in “The Time Machine” because HG Wells uses adjectives appropriately and attempts to put the reader in the