Readers can tell the novel, has a scientific basic due to its uses of language. We know the ‘The Time Machine’ was written in the Victorian times because he uses, Victorian languages and big posh unusual words. In chapter 7-7.1 the time traveller said ‘ we found some fruit wherewith to break our fast’, break our fast stands for breakfast this is an example that shows that the book was written in the Victorian times.
The Time Machine is about an inventor who was known as the time traveller. He was so fascinated by the future that he decided to build a time machine that could travel through time and space. His aim was to persuade a group of men that it is possible to travel through space and time; he then achieved it by travelling into the year 802701 to meet the different races that society had developed into which are the Elois and Morlocks.
The time traveller was a very brave and clever man who was addicted to finding out about the future and to learning more about the future and science.’’ The fact is the time traveller was one of those men who were too clever to be believed. This was because of the amount of intelligence and time the time machine would have needed they were also confused because they didn’t know whether to believe him or not because this kind of invention was to good to be true.
When the time traveller got to his destination (802701) the first thing he saw was a little lawn in a garden he was surrounded by rhododendron bushes. ‘ I noticed that their mauve and purple blossom were dropping in a shower under the beating of the hailstones’ this shows it was raining, he described himself as wet to the skin. He saw a colossal figure, carved in white stone, it was very large, and he described it as a ‘wing sphinx’. And he also saw huge buildings and tall columns.
The year 802701 is very different from ours because in our world we have diseases, pollution, noises, viruses, wars, violence, disruption and dishonesty whereas in the world of the Elois and Morlocks the air is free from gnats the earth from weed and fungi every where were fruits, sweets and delightful flowers. ‘The ideal of preventive medicine was attained diseases had been stamped out’. The time traveller was overwhelmed because he was blinded by all the great thing that the world had conquered like no diseases and no work not knowing that the lives was a living hell.
The time traveller was amazed and astonished by this although he expected more intellectual reasoning from them, in chapter4-4.2 it says ‘ you see I had always anticipated that the people of the year Eight Hundred and Two Thousand odd would be incredibly in front of us in knowledge, art, everything.’ he was hoping to learn more has he thought of them as people to bring new science and inventions.
In the ‘Time Machine the Elois are the upper class they are small pretty people who are very low in intelligence, wear pieces of leather and have the ‘intelligence of a 5 year old’. In a normal day Elois pick flowers, play and eat fruits. Elois have become this way because they are used to the happy and unstressful lives so therefore they believe there is no need to stress or worry about life.
The time traveller was very disappointed about this because he expected them to be intelligent and advanced, he was also shocked by the amount of stupidity the world had grown into he quotes, ‘I thought of the physical slightness of people, their lack of intelligence, and to big abundant ruins, and it’s strength ended my belief in a perfect conquest of nature’.
This means the thought of the little strength and intelligence the Elois possessed and have made so much big disruptions to mankind and all ended by complety destroying nature.
In the time machine the morlocks are the lower class. They live in the underground were it is very dark and dirty they are known to be nocturnal because they got so adapted to living in the dark. The morlocks are aggressive monsters looking creatures; they have big eyes, white ape like figures and luminous eyes.
The time traveller was amazed by this because he would never had predicted that human beings could turn into such ugly monsters.
However the time traveller believed that the human race had changed into something completely different and had split into two different species these were the Elois the upper class and the Morlocks, which are the lower class.
The time traveller gathered that races of the word had split so much that the upper and lower class had changed into very different races. He discovered that upper class (rich, successful) and the lower class (working class had to struggle to get by each day to feed their family) were so badly split that the upper class turned into Elois (brainless, childlike and immature) the lower class also turned into the morlocks (aggressive, monstrous, people eating, creatures) they were so different that the morlocks lived in the in the underground the Elois also became horrified of the Morlock that they feed on them.
In the time machine the future was free from diseases viruses and work but there was still trouble, the Morlocks were feeding on Elois which means when the Elois are all eating up there wouldn’t be nothing else to eat and the Morlock will all die of starvation. There wouldn’t be nothing left in the world.
The warning in this story is that if we don’t all live as one, unit.
That we will all turn into the Elois and Morlock and humanity will cease to exist .
H.G Wells was trying to teach us and also trying to give us a clear picture of what the world can turn into if we don’t stop the lower and upper class. On chapter 5-5.4 it says ‘ again the exclusive tendency of richer people due, no doubt, to the increasing refinement of their education, and the widening gulf between them and the rude violence of the poor – is already leading to the closing in their interest, of considerable portions of the surface of the land ‘.
H.G Wells is saying the fact is the rich people are gradually increasing their good living and education is so much higher than the lower class that there is a big difference meaning there is already no chance of the two classes uniting together and to be equal.
From the time traveller’s destinations he learned that the future was going to change, that know one was going to remember science or explore it. He also learned that if we weren’t careful we would turn into the Elois and Morlocks.
Looking into the future helped the time traveller to think more carefully about the present because, as proved in the year 802701 their wasn’t much of a future left, for science and inventions all this did not exist they were forgotten. This also made him realise their generation was the time of the using science, ideas and intelligence.This also made him realise that if people of the world don’t chang their ways of life all the inventions people had wasted most of their life doing will all go to waste
The story of the time machine is still remembered today because H G Well was one of the first writers to write a scientific based story that was so eye catching and intense that it made you wonder if the future would be like that and was also well known and remembered because of the overwhelming predictions he made about the world.
