The Time Machine Author: H. G. Wells | Language: English | ISBN:
1495385159 | Format: PDF
The Time Machine Description
- Paperback: 110 pages
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (January 30, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1495385159
- ISBN-13: 978-1495385155
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
H. G. Wells (1866-1946) published this science fiction tale in 1898. It draws on his sensible conviction that humanity and civilization will decline if people continue on their present suicidal course of seeking a life of leisure. "An animal," he writes, "perfectly in harmony with its environment is (nothing more than) a perfect mechanism." Intelligence and progress requires struggle and change. The gripping story can be seen as a parable.
A man develops a time machine that can transport him to the future, enters it, and flies forward some 800,000 years. He finds men and women who are no taller than four feet, very frail and soft, handsome, men and women look alike, but they are child-like and na?ve, and they laugh a lot. They show little curiosity and are not intelligent. They treat him kindly as children would, and think he descended to them from the sun in a thunderstorm. They are vegetarians. Their buildings are dilapidated. They live a life of communism. They do not work or otherwise exert themselves. He finds, in short, a civilization in decline. They are called Eloi, and the reader wonders if this name is a mockery, an irony, for the well-known Semitic term El means "mighty," and was used in ancient societies to denote God.
There is, however, another civilization underground, a still smaller race, a people devoted to work, descendants of the earlier workers on earth, who work, even as workers do in our own time, away from society, in enclosed spaces. These are the Morlocks, and readers may wonder if Wells is associating their name with the similar name of a Babylonian idol. The Eloi people fear them, as present day upper class people are unable to understand and deal with workers.
"A Perfect World Crumbles"
By: Cameron Wright
H. G. Wells, in his novella, The Time Machine, weaves a tale that at first seems like a simple science fiction. However, it contains many symbolisms about the lifestyle choices of mankind today. The main character's name is never given in the story; he is referred to as "The Time Traveler". He invents a machine that can travel back and forth throughout the fourth dimension of time. He successfully travels forward approximately eight-hundred thousand years into a time when humanity has been split into two groups: the Eloi and the Morlocks.
In the author's depicted future, mankind has undergone extreme favoritism of all living things. Plants, animals, food, etc, have all been winnowed into what is considered best. We act this way even in the present day. For instance, we decide which breed of dog is superior amongst the others and preserve and flourish these select. We feel that we have the right to judge and decide what has the right to exist and what does not. After eight-hundred thousand years of this practice, The Time Traveler has stumbled onto the result of a world with only "the perfect fruit" and the "the perfect animals". The Eloi live on the surface of our planet among those that have passed our critique.
The Time Traveler notices wells along the ground spread out from each other. For a time, he does not understand what they are. It seems too primitive that a well should exist in the future. He discovers that the wells lead to the underground world where the Morlocks live. The Morlocks act like slaves for the Eloi underneath the planet. They are only allowed to come onto the surface during the night. Earlier, the Time Traveler had noticed that the Eloi sleep in clumps huddled together during the night.
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