How does the author suggest the increasing threat of the Morlocks in 'Time Machine'? H.G Wells wrote the 'Time Machine' in the year 1895. This was the period of the Industrial Revolution

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How does the author suggest the increasing threat of the Morlocks in 'Time Machine'?

H.G Wells wrote the 'Time Machine' in the year 1895.

This was the period of the Industrial Revolution, where numerous machines were being invented in order to replace manual labour. But wealth was unevenly distributed among the society of the working classes, because the people who operated the machines were paid extremely low wages, whereas the people who owed the machinery were incredibly rich. The novel is about an incredible inventor who builds a Time Machine and eventually travels into the future. When he arrives there he believes that he's discovered a Utopia but soon realises that he's arrived at an unpleasant dystopia, where the human specie has evolved into two very distinct races as a result of evolution.

The first specie that the Time Traveller comes across is race called Elois who live above ground. He describes them to be identical to each other, when he says they have the "same form of costumes, the same soft hairless visage" and also acknowledges that they are very good looking as he addresses them as " pretty little people" who "speak a gentle liquid language". The Time Traveller also realises that these species were "frugivorous" which means that they live on a diet of fruit.

The second specie that the Time Traveller discovers later on in the future is a race called the Morlocks, who have evolved to an underground habitat. The Time Traveller portrays these species as " white large creatures" with "pupils of the abysmal fish". He uses a metaphor when he describes the Morlocks eyes as it greatly dramatises the feature, providing the reader with a horrid impression of the Morlocks. We are also informed that these creatures are carnivorous when he states, "The Morlocks at any rate were carnivorous".
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As the Time Traveller discovers more about these two individual species he comes to the conclusion that Eloi creatures represent the aristocrats' back in the Time Travellers' Industrial Revolution period, who live like "Carlovign and kings". This quote suggests that they live a luxurious, easy-going and happy lifestyle, but without any necessary demand for survival, the Eloi have evolved into unintelligent, weak and indolent specie, as the Time Traveller says, "I have never met people more indolent or more fatigued". Whereas the Morlocks' represent the poor working class people back in the Time Travellers period who live in ...

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