The Theme Of Time In The Time Machine

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Ever wondered what life would be like in the future? In the novel, The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells, The Time Traveller is curious to see what the world would be like in the future. He builds a time machine and ventures out in the depths of time and space, precisely the time 802,701 AD where life has become more simple with two types of people, the Eloi, and Morlocks. Time can be very complicated and easy to mess with. This is why the idea of time plays a big part in the theme of the novel. We always worry that we never have enough time to do certain activities or finish certain tasks. In the first chapter, the Time Traveller explains to his guest that time is a type of dimension. He explains to them the properties to time and how it can be
It had been no such triumph of moral education and general cooperation as I had imagined. Instead, I saw a real aristocracy, armed with a perfected science and working to a logical conclusion the industrial system of today. Its triumph had not been simply a triumph over Nature, but a triumph over Nature and the fellow-man” (47). This quote really interested me because we expect Humanity to advance in technology but in the book, Humanity has been simplified with only two types of people. In the novel, technology might have been used in harmful ways, therefore the future has not used advanced technology. In the future of the book, people work together and they both benefit from it. We assume our government will not be corrupt in the future and will remain the same, but in their future, the government is an aristocracy. The Time Traveller said, “But, clearly, the old order was already in part reversed. The Nemesis of the delicate ones was creeping on apace. Ages ago, thousands of generations ago, man had thrust his brother man out of the ease and the sunshine. And now that brother was coming back...changed” (56). It explains the associations between individuals not simply inside a same society, but rather as a major aspect of the same more extended family. The Time Traveller understands that the Eloi must have been rulers and ruled over the Morlocks like aristocrats and

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