Explore the theme of humanity in the Time Machine noting the effects of social and / or Historical influences.

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Explore the theme of humanity in the Time Machine noting the effects of social and / or Historical influences.  

H.G Wells was born in Bromley Kent on the 21st September 1866.  He had attended school called Midhurst Grammar in 1883, soon after he had gone to the normal school of science in London.  There he had learned biology, which could lead to why he had written science fiction novels.  He had left the school without the qualifications to become a writer.  He began his career as a writer in 1893 and then continued to create stories, such as the Time Machine.  

H.G Wells had studied the fourth dimension as he felt very strongly about this issue.  The fourth dimension was about moving back and fourth in time.  H.G wells had tried to create his own time machine.  He had stated “anyone enters the fourth dimension must have extension”.  Another way of looking at the fourth dimension is just looking at time.  

H.G Wells was always looking into the future and had come across many theories which he had expanded on.  H.G Wells was attracted to the future.  He thought there should be a division, doom and salvation.  He had predicted the 20th century precisely; that the streets would be overflowing, a new deadlier weapon of mass destruction would exist and the creation of bigger buildings.

H.G Wells had hated the difference between the rich and the poor as he felt that this gap between them was growing.  In his childhood H.G Wells was classed as being part of the poorer community, because his mum and dad were both domestic servants.  In the Victorian days domestic servants was looked down upon.  He strongly disagreed with the Victorian society that he joined in political parties against them.  As he aged he became part of the upper class community.  From his experiences of both divisions he despised this gap between the rich and poor, and felt that this gap was increasing.  From this we can gather that H.G wells had a first class genuine knowledge in class prejudice.  He illustrated his views of the Victorian times by writing the time machine.  In this story he wrote how the future would re act if the class divisions had not been divided.  The time machine represents class divisions by Elois who are the upper class and lived on top, whereas the Morlocks were the lower class divisions who lived underground.

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Chapter one, the time traveller has a dinner party.  They had gone to another room after eating their dinner to discuss the fourth dimension.  The time traveller wanted to demonstrate to them the fourth dimension by his miniature version of the time machine, so that they could become a witness of the fourth dimensions occurring.  At this dinner party there are only males present, because in the Victorian times women were not superior to men, this reflects the historical influences that existed in those times and relates to the essay question.  Men who attended the time travellers dinner party ...

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