Social Class In H. G Wells The Time Machine

The Industrial Revolution in Victorian England has steered the world into a new economy through the rapid growths of technology, education, and capital. H.G Wells, a socialist raised man, scorns the developments of capitalism in his stories and books. In The Time Machine, H.G Wells embodies the class inequality of the nineteenth century through the actions and behaviors of the Morlocks and the Eloi to warn humans the danger of continuous capitalist mistreatment of the working class for the benefits of the wealthy.
When the Time Traveler first embarks to the year 802,701 C.E, he encountered a group of tiny, pretty, childish adults who live in a communist society, sharing everything from food to shelter. They do little to no work, though there

The lower class were forced no only to live in those housing but to work in dangerous, dirty factories as well. The lifestyle of the Morlocks could also be compared to the lowest class during the 1890s in England, as they were deemed as “damned souls”, “human rats”, and were constantly at work - unlike the Eloi and the wealthy class (123, 119). They were also said by the Time Traveler to be able to have “some little thought outside habit”, since they needed to be in “contact with machinery” (127). In order to work the factories, large quantities of coal were needed to keep those factories running. People had to mine coal underground, endangering themselves as coal mines became deeper and darker. Contrasting the Eloi, the Morlocks inhabited an underground lair, similar to the coal mines. The Time Traveler described it to be “very stuffy and oppressive”, where they would “vanish … into dark gutters and tunnel” when trouble arises (87-88). They were not able to have the luxury of living in the “Over-world” with plentiful fruits and bright, clean, and open space (87). Although, through their earlier developments, the Morlocks threw away the social principle against cannibalism as well as their adaptation to light. While the Morlocks were much crueler and immoral than the Eloi, they were more intelligent and diligent,